Quote Unquote

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

Saturday, December 31, 2016

A new selection of my holiday snaps

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Taken at 6pm on New Year’s Eve, for this is the season of pleasure and self-indulgence. The novel in question features a man who sl...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

A selection of my holiday snaps

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I hope you’re having as much fun as I am.
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Optimism

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The great thing about being a freelancer in the New Zealand book publishing industry is that one is always optimistic. There is always some...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Robert Browning fluffs his lines

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Recorded on 7 April 1889, the year of his death, on an Edison cylinder, reciting “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”. Well, ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Wintec Press Club: Rachel Stewart edition

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The Wintec Press Club lunch is staged by the Wintec School of Media Arts three times a year for the benefit of the journalism students. The...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

In praise of: Karyn Hay

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Photo by Chris Skelton for Fairfax. To Auckland on Wednesday for the launch of Karyn Hay’s new novel March of the Foxgloves at the...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Nigel Cox on Kinky Friedman

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The 102nd in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the June 1994 issue. The intro read: Kinky Fri...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

What I’m reading #140

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The complete short stories of CK Stead in book form, as pictured above. One of these contains some of the others, mysteriously altered:...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Stephanie Johnson on Salman Rushdie

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The 101st in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the February 1996 issue. The intro read: ...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Coming attractions

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Stephanie Johnson interviews Salman Rushdie ( QUQ Feb 96), Mark Amery on Barbara Else’s fantasy ( QUQ March 97), Nigel Cox interviews Kinky...
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