Subscribe:
RSS feed
This post was a guest blog for The Great eBook Debate, a month-long project by Australian fantasy writer Isobelle Carmody. Each day in July 2012, Isobelle invited a guest to post a short essay presenting their take on the pros and cons of eBooks versus other modes of reading. Guests ranged from authors, publishers from […]
November 10, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, November 10 2011] The Australian Research Council have recently released the final version of the 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Journals List. Under the new system, both Meanjin and Overland have been added as ERA-recognised journals. What does this mean for readers? Not much at all, except maybe some bureaucratic […]
October 11, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, October 11 2011] Only 25 when he won the Guardian First Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel, Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer remains a divisive figure in the literary world. The stylistic flourishes for which his writing has been both acclaimed and derided — his […]
September 9, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, September 9 2011] One of the final events in Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program, Writers and Their Craft asked authors Maile Meloy and Steven Amsterdam about the nuts and bolts of their practice. And while the discussion was geared towards the largely adolescent audience (Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming has recently […]
August 30, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 20 2011] For anyone who dared to question the premise of Sophie Cunningham’s Big Ideas address, A Long Long Way to Go: Why We Still Need Feminism, Sunday night’s turnout alone said it all. She spoke before a packed BMW Edge, a sea of (mostly female) heads nodding in agreement and […]
August 28, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 28 2011] The experience of learning to read is one that I remember with strange clarity. When we lived in Cressy, a pinpoint inland town roughly an hour from Geelong, my parents bought me a subscription to a series of fairytales on tape to wile away the long drives to crèche. […]
August 27, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 27 2011] Hosted by Julianne Schultz of the Griffith Review, State of the (Literary) Nation bought together the editors our fellow literary journals – Sarah Kanowski of Island, Dominique Wilson of Wetink and Ivor Indyk of the recently discontinued Heat – to discuss the role the journal plays in Australia’s national […]
August 27, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 27 2011] When it was announced that Edinburgh got Jennifer Egan while we got Jonathan Franzen, I have to admit I was a little miffed. Of course, they’re both hot property on the writers festival circuit – A Visit from the Goon Squad and Freedom were the international literary juggernauts of […]
July 30, 2012
0