Novelist and poet Fiona Kidman recalls her first published book. When first asked to contribute this essay, my response was to beg another later book. My first novel, perhaps? On reflection, I saw this for the cowardice it was. The…
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Obituary — Margaret Mahy
Issue 100 | Summer 2012
Bookshelf
Captaining your soul, David Hill
The Ant and the Ferrari Kerry Spackman HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 9781869509590 Fate and Philosophy Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9781877551321 Half a century ago, C P Snow famously fulminated in The Two Cultures against arty-farty types condescending to physicists…
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Hedging digital bets, Donald Kerr
Curiosa and curiosa, Dale Williams
The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551130 Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517686 The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to…
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Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Gill, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Dale Williams, Debbie Cowens, Friedrich Krull, Issue 100, Katherine Mansfield, Matt Cowens, Summer 2012
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
I will do my best to be helpful, Ann Mallinson
Ann Mallinson shares a letter she received 20 years ago. Margaret Mahy was, among many other things, an ideas person. She loved discussing ideas, and those of us who were lucky enough to have her accept an invitation to stay…
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