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Blog Archive

All my previous blog entries, ordered from most recent to least.

Entries

Aug 30

Stella

A group of us have been working towards a new prize to award women's writing.More»

Aug 30

Melbourne

If you'd like to read an extract from my latest book, Melbourne, you'll find the one the Age published a couple of weeks ago here. You'll find Jane Sullivan's review here, and Kate Holden's review here. There was a really...More»

Aug 30

Why we still need feminism

I gave a lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Sunday night as a part of their Big Ideas series. It was on why we still need feminism. You can read an extract of it here, on Crikey. Or read...More»

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AUTHORS are intellectually incoherent with outrage . . . The Australian 's editorial goes on in this vein for a while. It's a grotesque misrepresentation of the situation that author's will face if the Productivity Commission's draft report goes through.

This website has been built so that those who want to support Harry Nicolaides the Australian writer currently being held in a Thai prison. His sentence for 'insulting the monarchy' is three years.

Somewhat belatedly, I want to note the death of Glenn Goldman, the founder of that great LA bookshop on Sunset: Duck Soup.

These images superimposing Leningrad during the Siege onto modern St Petersburg, are extraordinary.

On November 3 I'm taking part in a day long publishing forum Varuna is putting on in the Blue Mountains. If you're interested, come along.