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Thursday 19 June, 2008

Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing

This festival looks good - as does the four-day conference which precedes it. I'll be appearing onthe Sunday afternoon, with Robert Dessaix.

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Views from the Floor

Liza Cowan says:

Hey Sophie, I just saw your article about Bird and Zina in The Age. It came up on my Zina Rachevsky google alert. Well, congratulations and it was a fascinating article on your writing process. Where the heck did you get those photos?

I'm going to do a little piece on Bird and your article in The Age on my blog because my readers already know about Zina from my writings about her.

We still can't get Bird over here in the US, but I am hoping that it will be distributed here soon. I can't wait to read it.

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