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1 day ago Other People’s Favourite Books - Saxxon Blue on Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do. I am a frustrated artist who works full time in a job that is killing me softly with its cash. ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:36 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
1 day, 18 hours ago You Caught My Attention
I enjoyed this article on ‘Late Bloomers’ in The New Yorker. Makes me feel less rushed (for a little while). Hayden Carruth is a poet who passed away recently. Here ...
LiteraryMinded - 12:47 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
4 days ago Firmin - Sam Savage
Sam Savage, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 9780297854586, 2008 Firmin is a sad, lonely, depressing book. An anthropomorphous rat, achingly empathetic, shares his hopeless, dreaming, doomed existence. The ‘chinless’ one was born ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:37 a.m. Friday 28th November 2008
6 days ago Nick Cave, Cate Kennedy, Paul Jennings in 2009
2009 will bring many delightful literary goodies. I am privileged to know of them as I wrote an article for Bookseller+Publisher entitled ‘The Ones to Watch 2009′ - it’s in ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:53 a.m. Wednesday 26th November 2008
1 week, 1 day ago Another Voice for Nam Le - a Guest Post by Louisiana Alba
Louisiana Alba is the author of Uncorrected Proof, which I heart, so I asked if she would write something just for me (and you lit-lovers). Here ’tis: Italians have a ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:50 a.m. Monday 24th November 2008
1 week, 2 days ago Stylish Book Trailer
… for young adult novel Gone, by Michael Grant, who wrote the ‘Animorphs’ series. This is the first good book trailer I’ve seen. A development in the literary world I’m ...
LiteraryMinded - 3:55 p.m. Saturday 22nd November 2008
1 week, 4 days ago Fix
Another photographic excerpt from my project with Sudeep Lingamneni. These photographs are (c) Sudeep Lingamneni 2008. Please do not copy or reproduce without permission. See more here.
LiteraryMinded - 7:03 a.m. Friday 21st November 2008
1 week, 5 days ago Story To… and Random Stuff
I have a wee poem ‘Tinsel Dreams (Tram Moment 1)’ in the new Story To… zine, which is available in print and as a FREEBIE online. Click on Issue 2: ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:57 a.m. Thursday 20th November 2008
2 weeks ago Such Sensual Books I’ve Read Lately - Rachael King’s The Sound of Butterflies
Picador (2008, Australia), 9780330449175 In 1904, Sophie awaits her husband at the train station in Richmond. He is returning from the heart of the Brazilian jungle, seeking a mysterious, rumoured ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:51 a.m. Tuesday 18th November 2008
2 weeks, 2 days ago Sketch - this Thursday
Come along and hear me read (possibly sexually explicit material!) Also reading will be Kirk AC Marshall and Amy Jackson, who you might remember from my ‘Best Unpublished Books’ posts. ...
LiteraryMinded - 9:19 p.m. Saturday 15th November 2008
2 weeks, 3 days ago Other People’s Favourite Books - Barry Simiana on Robert Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do. Hi. I’m Barry, and I run the writing group known as Nitewriters [in Miss LiteraryMinded's home town Coffs Harbour]. We’ve ...
LiteraryMinded - 7:56 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
2 weeks, 5 days ago Go Nam!
Nam Le has won the $140,000 Dylan Thomas Prize, for a writer under 30. And how well-deserved! Read all about it from the ABC, or The Oz, or perhaps what ...
LiteraryMinded - 4:50 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
Give Me Some Lip
Lip Issue 16 has arrived in my mailbox. In this issue I have a piece titled ‘Virtual Projections: How We Construct Ourselves Online’. As it’s a magazine for young women, ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:50 a.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
3 weeks ago Seduce Me – Megan Clark
9780758209818, Kensington Fiction, 2008 (US) So it begins and ends with sex, and there’s a whole lot of juicy business in the middle, but Seduce Me also has an intriguing ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:48 a.m. Tuesday 11th November 2008
3 weeks, 1 day ago A Week in the Life of Miss LiteraryMinded
Mon 3 Nov - blog posted Sudeep’s pics before work. Rode bike to work (environmentally friendly). Quiet office on the day before Melbourne Cup. Sweat at the gym after! Finished ...
LiteraryMinded - 6:24 p.m. Sunday 9th November 2008

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