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'Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids' by Bleddyn Butcher

collective interest. McComb is certainly a figure worthy of biography. A superb songwriter, musician ...

The Monthly - John Kinsella - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What Gina Wants

the financial journalist Adele Ferguson pitched her proposal to write Gina Hancock’s unofficial biography ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

On a Mission

(April 2012, Books, Anthropology, Australian History, Biography, Carl Strehlow, Frieda Keysser, Scholars) ...

The Monthly - Peter Sutton - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Ferry into the Past

of Biography informed me that Billy Blue was transported in 1802, after he was convicted of stealing sugar. ... (April 2012, The Monthly Essays, Aboriginal People, Billy Blue, Biography, France, History of Australia, ...

The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Citizen Kael

(christos tsiolkas pauline kael) (February 2012, Arts & Letters, Biography, Cinema, Film criticism, ...

The Monthly - Christos Tsiolkas - 2012-02-08 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

From the Chrysalis

youthful biography and whatever the presumptions behind it – Remnick describes it as “a mixture ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Age of Innocence

Dictionary of Biography seems a curious oversight. She has worked with great men, observed great events ... (November 2011, Books, Arts & Letters, Australian Literature, Biography, Comedy, Fiction, Frank ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-11-04 16:04 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The History of MI6. Keith Jeffery

biography of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. His ground-breaking official history, MI6: The History ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-10-11 14:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Recollections (of a Bleeding Heart): Don Watson in Conversation

Don Watson The Wheeler Centre 5573119 Don Watson reflects on ten years since the publication of his acclaimed biography, Recollections ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-10-07 11:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

“Name Ten”: The journalism of Andrew Bolt

claims were stunningly dishonest. In “In Denial” I had outlined four biographies of mixed descent ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-24 09:45 - 28 comments - 0 attachments

What Happens Next

at its core an AS Byatt–like conceit in which a modern writer attempts the biography ... Astronomy, Australian Art, Biography, Biology, Gambling, Opera) ...

The Monthly - Andrew Ford - 2011-10-06 13:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Bolt Factor

not speak to me for this article, not even to confirm details of his biography. “If I help to get some ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Wikipedia seeks women

Wikipedia seeks women "'We are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding early childcare.' Wales said that research suggested that nine in 10 of its ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-12 16:11 - 0 comments

Murdoch's Chinese adventure

Murdoch's Chinese adventure "He dropped the BBC from his satellite over Hong Kong, he published a hagiographic biography of Deng Xiaoping by one of his daughters, and referred to the Dalai Lama as 'a very political old monk ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-03 14:40 - 0 comments

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

Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award Lecture at the State Library of New South ... to biography and autobiography. With particular reference to his own memoir Romulus, My Father, Gaita explores why the relationship between story and truth constantly stimulates interest in biography ...

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

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

Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award Lecture at the State Library of New South Wales, ... to biography and autobiography. With particular reference to his own memoir Romulus, My Father, Gaita explores why the relationship between story and truth constantly stimulates interest in biography ...

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

The Subject of Biography

Biography’, October). Knowingly commissioning a review by someone with a conflict of interest (even though ... Compounding the breach was the treatment of the review as a cover story with the sensationalist “Biography ... to Jacquie to write a tit-for-tat review of Wallace’s own biography of Gillard when it is published next ...

Letters to the Editor - Guest - 2009-11-05 08:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Other Biography

for the Lodge when Kevin Rudd’s day is done. Rudd was the subject of two biographies in the run-up to becoming ... But she seems to be slumming it with this book. Kent says the biography “could not have been completed ... POLITICS, ALP, Australian Politics, Biography, Industrial relations, Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Mark ...

The Monthly - Christine Wallace - 2009-10-19 10:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

After Life

of the physicality of dancers on stage. Rather than telling a straight biography of Bausch, though, we get only a few ... With It (after life, after life) (August 2011, Arts & Letters, Alain Corneau, Biography, Dance, Film, ...

The Monthly - Louis Nowra - 2011-08-31 22:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

On the Future of the Book. James Gleick

crowning work. Gleick is the author of the bestselling Chaos, Genius and Faster, and has penned a biography ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Richard Holmes. Biography (p3)

of biography, talks about the importance of the great tradition of the form both in Britain and Australia, ... as a working biographer over forty years, he discusses the art of biography writing and the many variations ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Richard Holmes. Biography: The Past has a Great Future

Richard Holmes, British biographer and world expert on the subject of biography, talks about ... over forty years, he discusses the art of biography writing and the many variations of style ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Richard Holmes. Biography (p2)

Richard Holmes, British biographer and world expert on the subject of biography, talks about ... over forty years, he discusses the art of biography writing and the many variations of style ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Prime Minister, Interrupted

was writing a Rudd biography, since suspended), thinks there is some serious revisionism going on. “The ...

The Monthly - Annabel Crabb - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

A Grand History

is a challenging biography because it will not allow us to think that there is an easy way into the life of another ... There is a particular problem in interpreting the Clark archive. Clark kept everything, expecting a biography would ... person than in most biographies. McKenna begins with Clark’s voice: “soft, gravelly, vulnerable, a voice ...

The Monthly - John Hirst - 2011-05-05 12:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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