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    5 ENTRIES 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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    Culture

    December 1, 2011

    At the Condamine Crossroads Motel

    Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces: Population 375. For the past two hours, the road has been unpaved, its surface the colour …

    A rapscallian's resort, Central Park. © Cameron Davidson / Corbis

    Society

    May 5, 2011

    Wanted for loitering

    Central Park, New York

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    February 6, 2008

    Fugitive Days

    Peter Carey’s ‘His Illegal Self’ & its antecedents

    arts

    June 1, 2005

    Blind date

    Though Peter, who is Lachlan’s best friend, is incensed by the special arrangements for the wedding, Lachlan himself does not care. All that matters is what is going to happen when his father appears. There will be an organ fanfare. Everyone will stand. …

    November 2, 2005

    The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman

    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 mother answered, there would be heavy breathing and silence. “Why are you doing this?” our mother would ask …



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