Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
Murnane by Emmett Stinson
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Category: Essays & Letters
A window into the writing of one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, Gerald MurnaneGerald Murnane is one of Australia's most celebrated authors whose experimental and deeply idiosyncratic style has attracted rave reviews, including profiles in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Murna ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
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Category: Essays & Letters
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Essays & Letters
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
Conversations with Dickens: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Paul Schlicke
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Category: Essays & Letters
Sheltering from a summer downpour, you encounter the ghost of Charles Dickens. Join him for a chat in the inn beloved by Mr Pickwick and be swept away by his vigour, warmth and humanity. You'll feel as if you've known him all your life. The great novelist Charles Dickens attracted international adulati ...Show more
Anything Can Happen by Susan Hampton
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Category: Essays & Letters
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia’s literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. ...Show more
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters
Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for no place and good place. But is an ideal society unattainable — or optimal?This edition of Griffith Review visits utopias old and new, near and far, to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a b ...Show more
Why We Read by Various
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Category: Essays & Letters
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays & Letters
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
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Category: Essays & Letters
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more