Friday, May 27, 2016

In praise of: Auckland University Press

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I was surprised, talking to some authors yesterday, that they didn’t know about Auckland University Press’s big international win. I should...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Wintec Press Club: Dave Dobbyn edition

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The Wintec Press Club lunch is held three times a year by the Wintec School of Media Arts and is hosted by Steve Braunias. The star-studded...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Waikato Times letter of the week #66

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From the edition of Friday 20 May. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times . Fi...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Money for writers

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Breaking news from Copyright Licensing : applications are now open for a new $25,000 award for writers of non-fiction, including those who ...
Monday, May 9, 2016

New adventures in punctuation and spelling

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On 25 April John Drinnan, the NZ Herald ’s former media columnist, started a new blog (which shows how much he knows about media). A horrif...
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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Waikato Times letter of the week #65

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From the edition of Saturday 7 May. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times . Also ...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

What I'm reading #134

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Whenever I buy a book on New Zealand literature I check to see that it has an index, because otherwise it is useless as a work of referen...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

An editor writes

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Here is something I prepared earlier for the Spinoff . Also contains, thrillingly, a drawing by Steve Braunias. The intro reads: One of...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Help I’m a Rock #2

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The previous post about Tracey Emin marrying a rock asked, “I wonder how the rock feels about this. Will no one consider the rocks?” ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Help I’m a Rock

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The Art Newspaper reports that “last summer, under an olive tree in her garden in France and wearing her father’s white funeral shroud”...