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1957 Typecast from Gore Vidal - These undated photographs of *Gore Vidal* using his *Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriter* were probably taken in the late 1950s, or possibly early 196...
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Last of the summer wine for the Public Service? - As the nightmare of an Abbott Government looms ever larger on Canberra’s horizon the ABC has the unhelpful news that the cardigan set have seen their wages...1 hour ago
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The poet at home … - … New England Writers At Work: Donald Hall - Books - The Boston Globe. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)4 hours ago
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Diary Entry - 19th June, 1918 - At eleven a.m. McKenna and I walked to the guns for lunch. It was a very muggy and thundery sort of day so we were pretty warm when we got there. We found ...5 hours ago
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Vienna print now available exclusively at The Artling - [image: Untitled] This image, 'Vienna', which I made a few years ago, and was featured in AOI Images 34 'Best of British illustration 2010', is now availab...6 hours ago
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Quotable: UN Human Rights Commissioner on the Fourth Amendment - “The Fourth Amendment as a whole represents further retrograde steps in terms of human rights protection. This is an issue of serious concern, not least be...6 hours ago
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Черная дама - I was the only one in my year doing Russian for General Studies A-Level. Two lessons a week. In the second year of it I started boycotting these lessons. N...7 hours ago
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Tuesday Morning LitLinks - “Almost breathtakingly tasteless” just about sums up Vice magazine’s “fashion” piece on women writers who committed suicide. (Jezebel) Robert Frost’s great...10 hours ago
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A weak and disappointing response from David Cameron on tackling hunger. - Being invited to the G8 summit is a surreal point in my accidental career so far. For a young woman who started out blogging in response to a local council...11 hours ago
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Jedi Academy: The Most Beautiful Ruined Moment - Sharon Kay Edwards, in a post titled “The Most Beautiful Ruined Moment” recounts her vacation at Hollywood Studios with her autistic son by penning a lette...12 hours ago
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WHAT IS THE GREATEST SPEECH? - *The Big Question: half a century ago, Martin Luther King had a dream and JFK said he was a Berliner. Both were famous speeches—but what is the best spee...14 hours ago
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Fiddling up a Storm in Budapest - It has been a couple of years since I was last seen in the United States, but tomorrow I am boarding a plane out of Budapest and heading to New York City. ...
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The Third Rainbow Girl — Part Two - By Emma Copley Eisenberg No use waiting for Liz like that, said Apple, watering the cacti with a small tin watering can. She just shows up when she wants t...16 hours ago
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Marlen Haushofer: Nowhere Ending Sky - Click here to read my review of Marlen Haushofer’s novel Nowhere Ending Sky – published in 1966, and now translated into English for the first time - from ...18 hours ago
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John Chapman’s April visit to Kardamyli - As many of you may know, John Chapman, the author of Mani Guide, not only provides us with excellent pictures (here) and comments, he also a regular corre...20 hours ago
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Beau Brummell – The Dandy’s Dandy - The great ‘Beau’ Brummell was the man who applied himself as none before to the reform and perfection of masculine dress… As Max Beerbohm puts it in his ...21 hours ago
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`Trades, Manufactuaries, High Life, Low Life' - A thoughtful, amusing and characteristically confused entry in Coleridge’s notebook dated “Midnight 5 April 1805”: “I will write as truly as I can from *E...22 hours ago
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Tag Heuer Advertisement #2 - Unfortunately, I'm yet to hear back from Tag Heuer about using my copy for their Leo DiCaprio advertisement. This got me thinking; perhaps they're after a...
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Promiscuous subterranean bohemians - Feigel has gathered together a half-dozen writers – Graham Greene, Henry Green (the pen-name of Henry Yorke), Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macauley, Rosamund Lehm...1 day ago
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Road test 'Sauce' - the wonderful world of food-with Barry St. Hubbins Coming back from my travels, a head full of food exotica and my mind spinning with ideas I am very excite...
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Touching Bases - *O*ver the last three years of writing this blog, I have successfully and even intentionally -- nay, *brazenly *-- avoided posting holiday-related pieces a...
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2013 shortlist - We have been waiting, waiting, waiting for the announcement of the shortlist for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The sudden resignation of the Minist...1 day ago
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RICHARD TOGNETTI PRESENTS AcO2 - *Richard Tognetti, Director and Violin* *Daniel Mueller-Schott, Cello* *Timo-Veikko Valve, Cello* *Presented by the Australian Chamber Orchestra* *Richard...
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By The Sea, Part Two: "So Of The Soul" - By happenstance I have lived beside salt water since the age of eleven: the Pacific Ocean (to the west, with the exception of one year in Japan), Puget So...
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Sweet charity - I begin this posting with a declaration. *Commodore 64. Great in 1983 and still great in its way* I've used computers for more than thirty years, from Comm...
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Open Letters Monthly, June 2013 - Today is both Father’s Day and Bloomsday, but any attempt on the part of this post to find a connection between the two is probably folly. I’m quite certai...2 days ago
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‘Progress’: ethics, awards and the environment - Ali Alizadeh My last post took aim at a rather obvious ideological edifice, the new literary patriotism in Australia and its mostly transparent role in the...2 days ago
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Louder Than a Speeding Bullet - If review aggregators are anything to go by, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has offended professional critics much more than cinemagoers. Quite a few critics, pe...2 days ago
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Two Bed, Two Bath - I push our old vacuum down the hall; we will go off somewhere else, leaving our echoes behind, speaking softly in the shadows of these rooms, waiting in ...2 days ago
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Clanricarde Gardens, London - *Backward glance (5): A tall house near the Gate* This backward glance focuses on an area of London in which I lived for a while. Its patterns of change ...
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Review: Marie Hermanson – The Devil’s Sanctuary - The Devil’s Sanctuary by Marie Hermanson was a book that I kept picking up and putting down again. The reference to Shutter Island on the blurb wasn’t doin...2 days ago
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Penguin no. 1107: X v. Rex by Philip MacDonald - *'I said wrecked,' said the Secretary of State for War. 'And I meant wrecked. Don't you see, man, where this may lead us? Aren't there thousands of men a...
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Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre - *Kean* by Jean-Paul Sartre (1953) Based on the play by Alexander Dumas Translated from the French by Kitty Black *The Devil and the Good Lord and Two Other...
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From turtles to water-beetles - While I'm busy collecting turtle stories--go leave yours in the comments to Wednesday's post!--I'll share another passage from Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary....4 days ago
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Trei zile la palatul Haller - Restaurare prin culoare - Timp de 3 zile ne propunem să restaurăm percepţia despre reşedinţa Haller din Coplean, jud. Cluj. Iar pentru asta ne vom folosi de o tehnică inovativă, ...
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Middle England - Today I set off on another futile quest to find some stock for my business, driving 135 miles to a meeting that lasted for five minutes. The address sounde...
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The audacity of revenge - *Scott G. F. Bailey, The Astrologer (Moses Lake, Wash.: Rhemalda, 2013). 253 pages.* Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer who was among the great figures of ...
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belief - Tradition ist nichts, was Einer lernen kann, ist nicht ein Faden, den Einer aufnehmen kann, wenn es ihm gefällt; so wenig, wie es möglich ist, sich die eig...5 days ago
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The Busy Blogger - Last weekend was very hectic. Friday we had a tropical storms worth of rain but thankfully not the wind to go with it. And this leading up to Banished Jr's...
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Special Request now available in shops. - Special Request now available in shops. : Hello. As you may have registered, this blog is now seldom updated. The reason for this is not as you might (jus...1 week ago
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EMAIL ALERT - The email account connected to Edward’s website was hacked early this morning, so apologies to anyone who received spam from it. You may be sure we are awa...1 week ago
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Short Story Competition – June 2013 – Theme: Mystery or Detective - The Australian Literature Review has been running monthly short story competitions for April, May and June. The theme for June is: Mystery or Detective Sto...2 weeks ago
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The Eyes Have It - When there's glue involved, it's probably sensible to only use it on the eyes of one partner:
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Magnificent Seven - This is a talk I gave at the Emerging Writers Festival on the weekend, an event in which myself and the other Ambassadors were asked to give seven pieces o...2 weeks ago
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My Favorite Quotations From "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - "...it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever f...
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Why go to Lebanon? - If I’d stuck to raw liver I’d have lost weight I imagine, however what with eating hommus three times a day and the myriad sweets drenched in butter and sy...
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Hot ham and pudding at the Three Steps - If I were mayor handing out awards to places and people that hold the community together, one of the first would go to the Three Steps on Bondi Road, a loc...2 months ago
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Countering the Contrarian - Richard Seymour’s ‘Unhitched’ - Hitchens’ personal branding as a contrarian (armed with logic strong enough to corrode sentiment, fashion, prejudice or cant) became a cloak for a kind of ...3 months ago
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Baloney - “Western industrial civilization,” says the British critic Steven Poole, “is eating itself stupid.” Poole’s recent polemic against food culture, *You Are...
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Hungarian Parliament Passes Early Registration Requirement to Disenfranchise Apathetic Voters - On Oct. 29 the Hungarian Parliament accomplished long-standing plans of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his conservative-right government: starti...7 months ago
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The Gorillas Died (Writing Urban Space) - Liam Murray Bell & Gavin Goodwin (eds.) reviewed by Gee Williams: As always come the warnings from those in the know - those with passports stamped by mere...8 months ago
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- I wrote a novel that Sheil Land represented, unsuccessfully. One publisher thought it was "compelling, but it wouldn’t be easy to categorize – it is somewhere between ‘literary’ and ‘commercial’, and would need to be one or the other to be pitched for successfully in an acquisition meeting." Another said, 'It’s pacy and gripping, and the plot is great, but it lacks that lighter women’s fiction feeling. The writing is undeniably good but I’m not quite sure how I would position it on our list.'A third commented that it "is a warm, engaging and easy read but this ‘middle market fiction’ is a really tough area', while a fourth considered that, "It is a good story (stories) well told, but just missing the X-factor that would make me fall in love with it." I wanted to write an entertaining novel that I would like when I was in the mood for something thoughtful & amusing that I could enjoy without too much effort. If you would like to read it yourself, you can find it at http://cargocollective.com/Unrealities/Holding-On-a-novel. My other blogs are these: http://ewmanifold.blogspot.com/ http://cargocollective.com/Unrealities/index http://absentproof.blogspot.com/ http://zmkc.blogspot.com
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