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A day in the diary of John Howard

A day in the diary of John Howard " A track-suited John Howard sits behind the desk, reading his autobiography. There is a framed portrait of him on the wall behind, another of the Queen, another of Sir Robert Menzies.  Janette Howard enters, flicking ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-15 13:55 - 0 comments

Assange loses control of his own memoir

Assange loses control of his own memoir "The now-unauthorized authorized autobiography is said for the first time to address the events between Assange and two women in Sweden that led to sex-crimes allegations against him." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-22 15:03 - 0 comments

Greil Marcus on Keith Richards' Life

Greil Marcus on Keith Richards' Life "The autobiography of Keith Richards has received almost uniformly ecstatic reviews. But do the people ... (Autobiography, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, The Times Literary Supplement) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments

Empire of the Mind

and crossed those estranging oceans. What Hughes wanted, as he says in his 2006 autobiography Things I ... Autobiography, Berlusconi, Italy, Painting, Robert Hughes, Sidney Nolan) ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-06-30 15:43 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Truth and biography: Writing Romulus, My Father. Raimond Gaita

to biography and autobiography. With particular reference to his own memoir Romulus, My Father, Gaita explores ... and autobiography. State Library of NSW, November 2009 2009-11-01 ...

SlowTV - Raimond Gaita - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Truth and biography: Writing Romulus, My Father. Raimond Gaita (p2)

to biography and autobiography. With particular reference to his own memoir Romulus, My Father, Gaita explores ... and autobiography. State Library of NSW, November 2009 2009-11-01 ...

SlowTV - Raimond Gaita - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Parallel Lives

Mark Twain and his Autobiography: Volume 1 ... following its publication last November, a hundred years after its author’s death. It was Autobiography ... autobiography. This followed an introduction from the Mark Twain Project and preliminary materials, and were ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-03-09 11:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

'The Man Who Loved Children' by Christina Stead

a novel steeped in autobiography, should be set in Washington rather than Sydney. The change was imposed ... Autobiography, Literature) ...

The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2010-11-04 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

and September 2010, heard that Assange was writing an autobiography he tells us in Inside WikiLeaks that his ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-23 09:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What’s Right? The Future of the Liberal Party

for any profits he might make from his autobiography, even though Hicks’s guilty plea was before ...

The Monthly - Peter van Onselen - 2011-09-15 12:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

No Exit

these ideas in turn. With the release of Tony Blair’s autobiography, attention has again focused ...

The Monthly - Mark Latham - 2010-11-04 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

'Trouble: Evolution of a Radical / Selected Writings 1970–2010' by Kate Jennings

Carmen Callil “Don’t look back. You’ll turn into a pillar of shit,” is the opening quip, but this could never happen to Kate Jennings, who is in a sense presenting her autobiography in this trawl of selections from her writing life. ...

The Monthly - Carmen Callil - 2010-05-06 14:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Sister Act

a hermaphrodite. Her pictorial autobiography, Kylie: Evidence , includes a nude painting by Simon Henwood, which ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-09-14 21:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

"Barley Patch" by Gerald Murnane

and autobiography. The work has an insular and solipsistic intensity, as well as an anorak’s fascination with banal ... Hawke (October 2009, Noted, SOCIETY, Autobiography, creative writing, Fiction, Psychology) ...

The Monthly - Louis Nowra - 2009-11-05 14:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Curtain Call

soprano’s autobiography. The 1959 scenes, recorded in Paris to capitalise on her London success, have ... reverential accounts by Russell Braddon or Norma Major, along with an Autobiography in which Sutherland, ... story: C'est la vie (October 2009, The Monthly Essays, Music, Opera, Autobiography ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2010-10-13 08:35 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Divine Comedy

into a pit. Humphries may hope, as he says in his autobiography More Please (1992), for “the ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-02-15 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

C'est la vie

treated us to a memoir or an autobiography. In fact, he says he was approached by publishers to produce ... Biography (October 2009, Books, SOCIETY, Autobiography, Bill Henson, China, Memoir, Painting, ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Smee - 2009-11-05 14:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Federer Game

on Breyten Breytenbach, on TS Eliot, on the autobiography of Doris Lessing, on the wildly dissembling, ... 2009, Books, SOCIETY, Autobiography, Biography, Business, Fiction, Memoir) ...

The Monthly - Inga Clendinnen - 2009-10-01 14:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Wilfred Burchett booklist

2006) George Burchett & Nick Shimmin, eds, Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography ... Rules (June 2008, The Monthly Essays, Lists, Autobiography, Journalism, University of New ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2010-06-18 12:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

‘The Cleft’ By Doris Lessing

autobiography, libretti and non-fiction, the 87-year-old Doris Lessing now speculates on the moment when ... Noted, Autobiography, Fiction, Gender, Non-Fiction) ...

The Monthly - Chris Womersley - 2011-02-22 14:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard

autobiography demonstrates how the 77-year-old's surreal fiction has consisted of the writer unpacking ... ballard) (May 2008, Books, Noted, Autobiography, Fiction, Memoir, Painting) ...

The Monthly - Chris Womersley - 2008-05-06 11:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Arise!

autobiography" makes instructive reading alongside Indignation (Jonathan Cape, 256pp; $45) , published ... Next story: Tales of the City (March 2009, Books, Australian Media, Autobiography ...

The Monthly - Drusilla Modjeska - 2010-05-22 16:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Comeback Kid

school. There's a delicious glimpse of Warne in Jason Gillespie's autobiography, Dizzy ... Unhappy Families (comeback) (February 2009, Theatre, SOCIETY, Autobiography, Eddie ...

The Monthly - Gideon Haigh - 2010-05-22 14:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Pilgrimage

about its author while not being an autobiography. Instead, the book is described as a travel memoir, and memoir is a slippery designation, with none of the rigid specificity of the biography or autobiography ... The Remembering (October 2008, Books, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Musicians, Robert Dessaix, ...

The Monthly - Alexandra Coghlan - 2010-06-24 12:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

John Pilger & Martha Gellhorn

and invasions. Novels, collections of short stories, travelogues and autobiography. In 1975, she wrote ... martha gellhorn, john pilger martha gellhorn) (March 2008, Encounters, Autobiography, Brazil, Israel, ...

The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2010-11-24 10:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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