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From the stock room
You’re judged in the art world by the decisions you make and Anna Schwartz remembers going down to an artist-run space in Prahran in the early ‘90s.
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Tweet or deWitt: that is the question
Standing in a queue for a book signing is one of the hidden pleasures of the Melbourne Writers Festival, a place where you can hang out to pick up tips from great storytellers or just get close to fans.
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Casual encounters with the past
Radical families are inspiring and the van Schaiks are a name when it comes to the CBD, in architecture and now art.
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When the press performs well
Way above the CBD in a lovely little apartment hidden within a hotel on Highlander Lane, two thinkers work on articles for publication in the academic press.
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The tenderness of artistic types
The path of a writer is hellish. Many take the safer journey into genre.
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An outrageous Gothic wit
Strange Arctic landscapes by Janice Gobey were exhibited at fortyfivedownstairs in May with the figure of a white wolf staring knowingly out of the canvasses.
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Moments of cruelty exposed
Cruelty to animals will touch the nerve of most readers and Janet Malcolm uses it to great effect in her latest book of essays, Nobody’s Looking at You, just released by CBD company Text Publishing.
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Caught in tight places
The CFMEU office is at the centre of Lindsay Tanner’s new novel Comeback as the union tries to sort out a crooked developer with shonky safety practices and traps a taxi driver in its web.
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On board a humiliating journey
Local William St company Text Publishing had three titles in the short list for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards but was pipped at the post by an extraordinary book written on Manus Island.
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An open mind in the big city
It’s 5.45 on Friday night and the bar at Young and Jackson is full of workers but you can still feel alone.
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Council to ensure no more eyesores
The puppy bunch
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