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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 […]
May 28, 2012
[Published in The Emerging Writer: An Insider's Guide to Your Writing Journey, May 2012] “If you want to write about yourself, you have to give them something.” So said Joan Didion, one of the preeminent memoirists, to her late husband in 1979. Notoriously reticent in person, Didion has always viewed the disclosure of the self […]
May 16, 2012
[Published in Meanjin, Number Two 2012] Writing about Joan Didion can seem superfluous; after all, it is Joan Didion who has written most widely about Joan Didion. Perhaps more than with any other author, Didion’s personality is impossible to separate from the pages of her work. In five novels, three memoirs and an expansive collection […]
July 30, 2012
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