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Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital is a Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Columbia University. Her books include Orpheus Lost, Oyster and Forecast: Turbulence, which was published in November 2011.
 
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Summer Reading

At the Condamine Crossroads Motel

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Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces:...

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Travel Special

Wanted for Loitering: Janette Turner Hospital on Central Park, New York

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From the NASA space shuttle, Central Park is visible to the naked eye as a bright emerald bar on the fat knuckle of Manhattan – index...

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Books

Fugitive Days: Peter Carey’s ‘His Illegal Self’ & its antecedents

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In 1953, the very year that the Rosenbergs were executed as communist spies, Arthur Miller's The Crucible was packing the Martin Beck...

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The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman

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On one night, the worst one, and the last one before Katie ran away, there were eighteen of those calls. They were not all the same. If our...

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Blind Date

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Though Peter, who is Lachlan’s best friend, is incensed by the special arrangements for the wedding, Lachlan himself does not care. All...

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