Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future by Julianne & Gleeson, Brendan (ed Schultz
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Category: Letters | Series: Griffith REVIEW
AUSTRALIAN politics and national life are trapped in a permanent present. There are few opportunities to imagine the future, and even fewer to create it. Politics, commerce, media all focus relentlessly on the here and now. This breeds a corrosive cynicism. Yet when alternatives are presented they are o ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding
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Category: Letters
The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. The letters - at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective - are possibly even more revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelis ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: The Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
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Category: Letters
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold.' He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
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Category: Letters
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
Women of Letters #7 Signed Sealed Delivered by Michaela McGuire
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Category: Letters
"Dear Madonna, Thank you for showing me that it is okay to be both a devoted mother and on a podium drenched in glitter. Love, Em Rusciano Dear Leigh Sales, What kind of psychopath is unmoved by fairy wrens? Love, Annabel Crabb The art of letter writing is still the best way to connect, to express a th ...Show more
Dear Mum by Julia Morris
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Category: Letters
In this wonderful collection of letters from celebrities to their mothers, Australian sporting stars, musicians, models, cooks and famous authors reveal what they would like to say to their mothers before it's too late, or would have said if only they'd had the chance. From Kaz Cooke to Kate Ceberano, A ...Show more
500 Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Letters
Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. This book will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilize the English language to its full p ...Show more
Everything I Know about Writing by John Marsden
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Category: Letters
The ultimate "get off your bum and do it" book, Everything I Know About Writing will motivate anyone to write. It's a lively funny guide to writing, as readable as a novel, but packed front to back with ideas and insights. And this new edition has one other great feature: 600 extraordinary topics, guara ...Show more
Imaginary Homelands : Essays and criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Letters
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expans ...Show more
Writing Without a Parachute: the Art of Freefall by Barbara Turner-Vesselago
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Category: Letters
Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment. Here, for the first time, writing teacher Barbara Turner-Vesselago s ...Show more
The Genius of Dickens by Michael Slater
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Category: Letters
Dickens is one of the greatest literary icons in the English-speaking world, who possessed a genius as a communicator as well as a storyteller, and who remains a writer of inexhaustible popular interest, as notable today on screen as on the bookshelf. Michael Slater has spent half a century reading and ...Show more