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Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
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Category: On Writing | Series: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
In "Witness: The Inward Testimony" Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees 'what is really taking place'. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding 'Literature has been and remains ...Show more
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Writers on Writers
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how h ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: On Writing | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
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Category: On Writing | Series: Writers on Writing
Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson's relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters.In the Writer ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Writers on Writers
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
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