Still Life With Cat

Between 7 pm on Friday night and 7 pm last night I had four separate conversations with four different people whom I've known for thirty...

Over the last week I've had two emails marking literary anniversaries and quoting bright stars in the literary firmament. September 18 w...

This morning there's been some serendipity; I began reading a novel by a young writer whose exploration of a sexual harassment incident ...

It's all true . Especially #8.

Longtime readers of this blog might remember my astonishment on discovering, in the course of an enthusiastic rummage through the online NSW...

Life for most thinking people is a daily battle of the various principles, large or small, that for one reason or another are mutually exclu...

The Weatherpixie in the sidebar there, at this moment anyway, is telling me that at Adelaide Airport, 20 minutes south of here, there is cur...

I haven't seen my watch for over two weeks, maybe three, not even in the wake of a fairly major (for me) cleanup. It has a stretchy band...

Number of times during a 32-minute drive this afternoon that I heard, across 3 different radio stations, the expression 'rolled out'...

Not content with having introduced a magnetic tag/toll system that so baffles the bejesus out of hapless non-Victorians (me, for example) th...

There are four kinds of book review. There's the good good review , which is both favourable about its subject and skilfully, knowledgea...

What would Charlotte think, I wonder, if she knew people were not only still reading her masterpiece nearly 200 years after she was born, bu...

*Yes, that is a joke. I've been seeing a fair bit lately, online and off, about this book: Krissy Kneen's Affection: A Memoir of Lo...

She was wondering whether it would be nosy to ask Miss Foot why she was on the ship when her companion said, 'I am travelling to New Yor...

Every third or fourth Friday is Money Day, on which one pays any outstanding bills and chases up every little bit and bob of money one is ow...

For those of you who may not remember Leonard Bast, he is the failed aspirational with whose shabby umbrella the heedless Helena Bonham Cart...

there's some new stuff over at Australian Literature Diary . Yes yes, I know Beautiful Kate is actually an Australian film adapted from...

Marking can be a terrible chore, so it's always nice to have an assistant.