Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lo ...Show more
Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don' ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
At the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist, but Ms Medway peered down at Madeleine during her entrance interview in 1957 and announced- 'You know dear, I think you might write.' Madeleine would write. But not for some time.The Women in Black, a sparkling gem that belied the di ...Show more
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science-fiction genres, and her creation has become part of our everyday culture, from cartoons to Hallowe'en c ...Show more
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies And Other Writing From The London Review Of Books by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, author of The Wolf Hall trilogy. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be mo ...Show more
Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Marx's Literary Style argues that a true understanding of Marx's work requires a careful study of his literary choices In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode ...Show more
Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute (editor)
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these pract ...Show more
Meanjin Quarterly Vol 80, No 4 by Meanjin Quarterly
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
In the December issue of Meanjin-An edition titled- Words.In a special series of non-fiction pieces, Australian writers respond to one-word titles.Sarah Krasnostein on HomeTony Birch on LoyaltyBruce Pascoe on CapitalKate Holden on FencesChristos Tsiolkas on ResentmentLucia Osbourne-Crowley on AngerScott ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more