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Suits the urban peasant
There’s a great little setting up the top of Bourke St on McIlwraith Lane with a truck parked out front and the brick walls of a suburban factory, in stark contrast to the dressed-up ladies of town.
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Difficult stories attract punters
Melbourne’s City of Literature turned 10 last month without a fanfare.
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The last day of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival fell on Sunday, September 2. A reader, feeling a bit low, rushed into the city, hoping to find inspiration among the wordsmiths and soothsayers of the day.
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A romance about writing
In the novel Antidote to a Curse, the narrator meets his lover in the iconic Stalactites café in Lonsdale St.
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Disconnected from place and cause
Nature and all of its anarchies was put on a pedestal in June as the literary industry fired up with two bookshops offering wine and ideas for the wintery months ahead.
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The facade is light brown stone with chiaroscuro in the monumental sunken windows at the top, which peek out above the trees of Swanston St like an alien intelligence.
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Someone is following
The Shoalhaven area up the east coast holds a special place in the hearts of even the most jaded nature watchers.
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Pining for a lover
Last year someone at Dymocks bookstore in Collins St left a stray novel amongst those on the 2017 Stella Prize shortlist for women’s writing and the CBD News picked it up mistakenly out of the pile of hopefuls.
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The emptiness of status
Curators tend to look at the careers of artists, their exhibition history, critical assessment published in art magazines and updates of the artist’s website to provide an objective measure of their status.
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Scandalous times
There is a naive belief that media exposure will help bring problems into the spotlight, leading to their solution and justice for injured parties.
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Shared zone “an accident waiting to happen”
Not afraid to speak her mind
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