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“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Sentence of the month

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In the new issue of Metro , Paul Litterick ends his review of Why We Build by Rowan Moore: If you have a daughter who wants to be an arc...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Steve Braunias and sensible sentencing

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I don’t usually run press releases but this one deserves it: Wintec Announces New Zealand’s Richest Writing Prize Wintec in Hamilton is ...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

King Harvest has surely come

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This is but a sample of the recent output from my capsicum plants. Despite (because of?) the drought, it’s my best-ever harvest ever:...
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Adventures in the book trade #6

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Last Thursday Stuff ran a story on a campaign by Booksellers NZ to close the loophole whereby New Zealand consumers can order books from Am...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

In praise of: Barbara Anderson

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The 58th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the December 1993 issue. Nigel Cox interviews Ba...
Friday, March 22, 2013

An awkward NZ Book Month moment

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As advertised here I went to Hamilton Library on Tuesday evening to appear on a panel for a NZ Book Month event, discussing book reviews. C...

Waikato Times letter of the month: runner-up

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Another drought-related letter, this time blaming gay marriage rather than PKE, as the winner did. From yesterday’s issue, 21 March: God ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

The AUP anthology of NZ literature #8

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Monash University’s department of Art, Design and Architecture, in partnership with the State Library of Victoria, has this year ins...

Building a better Ulysses

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Ever wondered how Ulysses would have turned out if James Joyce had attended a creative writing workshop? Teddy Wayne suggests at McSweeney’...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Waikato Times letter of the month

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The skinny: we’ve had a drought over the whole country because farmers use PKE as a stock-feed supplement , which causes climate change . An...
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