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I’m not sure I want to be a writer but I’m sure I want to write. You may have heard that the formula for being a writer is ‘apply ass to chair’. This sentiment was first recorded more eloquently in 1911 by Mary Heaton Vorse, who apparently advised a group of aspiring authors to ‘applyContinue reading “I Don't Know What This Is…”

Why reading books about where you visit helps When I returned from the Spirit of Tasmania gift shop and pulled out a copy of Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide, my paddling compadres fell silent. Their faces were a spectrum of surprise to annoyance, or even mild disgust. Later I understood this naive actContinue reading “Should We Read Where We Are?”

Exploring a life through biography Have you been wondering if reading the biography of a long dead Australian prime minister is worthy of your precious time and attention? Well, despite the digital smorgasbord of ways to burn such finite resources and the constant cognitive burden of obligation and possibility,  heavy with essential shocking news orContinue reading “Behind the Curtin”

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