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Stellar shortlist for new women's book prize
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 months ago
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Anyone who thinks women's writing is all about masochistic sex and dates with vampires should take a close look at the powerful shortlist for the first Stella Prize for Australian women's literature. Among the six finalists is Courtney Collins'
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Shortcuts: Movies under the moon
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
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Notwithstanding the risk of a deflated screen, Moonlight Cinema has secured a number of first-look titles before the deckchairs at the Royal Botanic Gardens are packed away on March 31. They include: the biographical documentary Roman Polanski: A
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What We're Reading: Sam Hockley-Smith
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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Tired of reading the same recommended books from the usual sources?...For this installment, departing Senior Editor Sam Hockley-Smith writes about some recent highlights.. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner: Amber wrote about Ben Lerner's
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Tim Winton pushes for marine parks (The West Australian)
Canberra :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Tim Winton pushes for marine parks AAP, The West Australian May 9, 2012, 8:32 pm Author Tim Winton has been in Canberra urging the Federal Government to make good on an election promise to establish a network of marine parks. One of Labor's 2010
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Why Australian literature is alive and well and living in our universities
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Well, public bodies outside the universities have their own axes to grind, I suppose, and Australian literature has always been something Australians have invested in and squabbled over. The world of Australian literature is both remarkably
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Land's Edge: a coastal memoir, By Tim Winton
Perth :: Australia | 1 year ago
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The last time I was in Perth (Australia, not Scotland), a fellow-swimmer was scoffed up by a passing shark...The victim had left behind a prophetic, posthumous message: "Leave the shark alone!" He half expected to be eaten and he didn't think there
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Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton – review
Sydney :: Australia | 1 year ago
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he writes about the ocean with an almost religious reverence. Photograph: Martin Godwin Winton grew up on Australia's west coast, where he would fall asleep after days spent fishing, surfing, diving and swimming, with his back "a map of dried salt
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Screen Talk: Heche tagged
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Anne Heche already has a cult following but now she's got some on-screen members to go with her fan base. Heche will star alongside Rufus Sewell and Colm Meaney in The Occult, a film detailing strange goings-on within a religious cult, directed by
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Cate Blanchett, Mia Wasikowska and David Wenham to Direct in Omnibus Feature ‘The Turning'
Sydney :: Australia | 1 year ago
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PDT 3/22/2012 by Pip Bulbeck share Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The acting trio will make their directorial debuts alongside 14 other directors in the film adaptation of the iconic Australian short stories. Actors Cate Blanchett, Mia Wasikowska and
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Cable girl: Cloudstreet
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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David Dare Parker/Sky Atlantic Cloudstreet (Sky Atlantic) opens with a beautiful tumbling montage of memories some of them maybe yet to come before it settles on a laughing family on a seaside fishing trip...Then what we will come to know as "the
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