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A comedy show can make (or break) your book

April 24, 2009 – 8:31 am

Barry Ritholtz reports on a fascinating discussion with his publisher:
What really surprised me was their reactions to two of the quasi-news opinion programs — The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Glen Beck Program.
After Oprah, these two are (apparently) amongst the biggest book sellers on TV.  Like Oprah, Glenn Beck has a loyal audience, is perceived [...]

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Books among the tropics

February 12, 2009 – 8:15 am

This strange disease afflicts so many of us from the inner-city to the far-flung outposts, like Reg Thomson most of us could hardly imagine a life lived without books:
My earliest memories of my father are permeated by books. They were an integral part of the daily rhythms of his life. Books arrived constantly in boxes [...]

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Change doesn’t always mean happiness

January 26, 2009 – 4:15 pm

One of my favourite authors is John McGahern. In his Memoir, McGahern writes (p80):
I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where change is imperceptible, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
You could hardly imagine a viewpoint [...]

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A documentary on John McGahern

December 12, 2008 – 5:56 pm

It’s a year since this great author passed away

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ABC702 book auction for indigenous literacy project

November 21, 2008 – 10:10 am

This is a great idea and even though bidding hasn’t officially started, I’ve already tossed in a cheeky little bid of $600 (the first bid according to Deborah Cameron was a measly 300 bucks), you can bid too:
ABC Sydney Morning Show presenter, Deborah Cameron, is lending support to the Indigenous Literacy Project with a silent [...]

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Studs Terkel dies, 96

November 1, 2008 – 5:18 pm

I am a very big fan of Studs Terkel I devoured many of his books when I was young. Not only was he a fantastic oral historian with a real empathy with everyday Americans and a tremendous ability to bring them alive on paper but Terkel was also a great expert on the blues of [...]

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