Month: March 2010
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Trash Fiction
Damn, the Wheeler Centre is really going strong. Toni Jordan’s defence of trash fiction is worth a look. For the record, while I don’t read Tom Clancy or John Grisham novels, I did devour The Da Vinci Code, and I’m a huge fan of ‘lad lit’. I’m not ashamed of it, either. Too often, those…
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Who Gives a Toss about Saving the Newspapers?
Attended the ‘Future of Quality Journalism’ panel at Adelaide Writers’ Week on Tuesday. Wasn’t. Impressed. The members of the panel – ABC documentary presenter Michael Cathcart, and journos Malcolm Knox, Alice Pung, and Ian Townsend – are intelligent people. I’ve read their stuff: it’s damn good. Unfortunately, they collectively stumbled right from the beginning, misunderstanding…
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Constructing an Internet Bookshelf
One of the problems with reading on the internet seems to be that there’s too much competing for your attention at any one time, and not a huge amount of incentive to persevere with what you’re concentrating on at any moment. I don’t know about you, but I consider a physical book a challenge. I…