Find in a library near you: You don't love me yet, by Jonathan Lethem
You Don’t Love Me Yet (Doubleday)
The pleasures of the lightweight and the free-spirited: Jonathan Lethem on the undiscovered bands; the well-attended, high-concept art events; and the fluky twenty- and thirty-somethings of Silverlake, L.A.
John Berger's political way of seeing
John Berger is a novelist, storyteller, poet, screenwriter, and art critic. His 1972 BBC series and book Ways of Seeing made an enormous impact as a reaction to Kenneth Clark's series on art Civilisation. Now 80, his new book is Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance and it's a series of reflections written between 2001 and 2006, arising from contemporary political moments -- London in the aftermath of the July 7 bombings, New Orleans after its destruction by Hurricane Katrina, New York after 9/11, and the Middle Eastern troubles, from Bagdad to Gaza.
Listen to this Australian Broadcasting Corporation Podcast
Words at Large features the best in books on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio One. Feature interviews with authors, discussions about themes and all kinds of other tidbits make up this weekly podcast. This program takes a look at Crime Fiction. Words at Large looks at this hot genre covering a range of books from Elmore Leonard to the recent wave of Norwegian Mysteries.
Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead
American writer Kevin Brockmeier's contemporary novel The Brief History of the Dead takes place in two places: in Antartica on Earth, and in a place called The City, where people go when they die. Find in a library near you.
First Person - Life Class: The Education of a Biographer
As a young woman, Brenda takes a job that is to be the beginning of her long career as an academic and as a biographer. Find books by Brenda Niall near you
"Baseball is more than just a national pastime—for many, it’s a religion. Today on The Beat, Christopher Evans shares the doctrine of the Diamond. Also, Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher about how the seen caresses the unseen when we reach out to loved ones who have died."
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The poetry of JS Harry
Jan Harry, or JS Harry as she is known, has been described by Peter Porter as 'the most arresting poet working in Australia today'. Her work clearly challanges the form, because other reviewers have said that reading one Harry poem 'is no guarantee that you will make sense of the next'.
Comic book appreciation
Poet Dorothy Parker confessed to loving them, novelist John Updike was greatly influenced by them and EE Cummings said they were a 'living ideal' superior to 'mere reality'. And they were talking about comics!
Excess Baggage and Claim (review)
Excess Baggage and Claim is a literary cross-cultural pairing of the poets, Singaporese Cyril Wong and Australian Terry Jaensch. It pounds the pavement of Singapore's karaoke scene and evokes gay love and desire. Read Transcript
First Person - Life Class: The Education of a Biographer
Brenda Niall has taught Australian literature at the ANU and Monash University, and has also held visiting fellowships at a number of American universities, including Yale. Her books include biographies of Martin Boyd, the Boyd Family and Judy Cassab. She's received many awards, including the Order of Australia in 2004. Since retiring from academia she's written full time, and is a frequent reviewer for various publications, including Australian Book Review.
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Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
"This final part of Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy occupies much the same terrain as The Sportswriter (1986) and the Pulitzer-winning Independence Day (1996) - the same peregrinations around suburban New Jersey, the same pondering of big questions disguised as small ones, the same hard-thought philosophies disguised as uplifting, small-town nostrums. But no one can complain about that." UK Guardian Review
