Monday musings on Australian literature: Canberra’s centenary
Cover (Courtesy: Irma Gold and Halstead Press) In 2013 Canberra, Australia‘s national capital, will celebrate its centenary. A whole raft of events and activities has been planned to keep us busy and...
View ArticleMeanjin’s The Canberra Issue (Review)
Courtesy: Meanjin Zora Sanders writes in her Editorial for Meanjin‘s Canberra Issue that Canberra has (or, is it had) a reputation for being The National Capital of Boredom. This is just one of the...
View ArticleChristos Tsiolkas in Meanjin’s The Canberra Issue
Courtesy: Meanjin I indicated in my recent review of Meanjin‘s special Canberra issue that I would write another post or two on the issue. This is one of those posts. It may, in fact, be the only one,...
View ArticleMonday musings on Australian literature: Annual anthologies
This post would possibly be better done at the end of the year given that its subject – annual anthologies – relates most commonly to end-of-year publishing. However, not all such anthologies are...
View ArticleModern short stories, 1929-style
As I continue to clear out my aunt’s house, I keep finding little treasures. Most I move on. There are only so many little treasures, after all, that you can dwell on, let alone keep, but an old book...
View ArticleMonday musings on Australian literature: Growing up [name the aspect] in...
With my Japanese trip almost over, I’m posting just a quick – but nonetheless interesting, I hope – Monday Musings this week. Some of you will have guessed what this title refers to; it’s to the little...
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