Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Writing
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Writing
A final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, a ...Show more
Leading Lines - How to Make Speeches that seize the moment, advance you cause and lead the way by Lucinda Holdforth
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Category: Writing
How to make speeches that seize the moment, advance your cause and lead the way. For those who aim to be leaders, mastering the power of speechmaking - the art and craft of persuasion - is more important than ever. If you want to be heard, it's not enough to have something to say: you must know how to s ...Show more
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
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Category: Writing
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more
Make a Zine! Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution (4th Edition) by Joe Biel
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Category: Writing
The second edition of this incredibly useful guide on how to makes zines, especially in the Digital Age. In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine ...Show more
Meanjin Quarterly Summer 2019 - Vol 78 No 4 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Writing
Rediscovering Captain James Cook- Paul Daley combs through the archives, visits Cook's papers in the National Library, speaks with Indigenous Australian thinkers and comes up with a reappraisal of the great explorer's impact.Selling the farm- the author of Rusted Off Why Country Australia Is Fed Up, Gab ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 78 No 3 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Writing
In the September Meanjin, author of The Tribe and The Lebs, and founder of Western Sydney's Sweatshop writing collective, Michael Mohammed Ahmad sets down an extraordinary account of literature, race and black activism in a landmark essay 'Reading Malcolm X in Arab Australia'. Ahmad draws parallels betw ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 79 No 2 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Writing
Intimacy Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Other essays include- Academic and author Toby Miller looks at the st ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 79 No 4 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Writing
The issue opens with reflective contributions from all of Meanjin's living past editors ... Tara June Winch and Behrouz Boochani offer a conversational meditation on time and the very notion of a future. Bruce Pascoe writes on the strange relationship non-Indigenous Australians have with trees, and wo ...Show more
Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
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Category: Writing
From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the ...Show more