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Public Library 11.12

James Wood’s best books of 2009. Via The New Yorker. Cate Kennedy on how to end a short story. Via ABC. All That, an extract from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also via The New Yorker. Simon Winchester on Georges Perec. Via OUP blog. Amazon to sell short stories for the Kindle. I can’t see this as [...]
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Public Library 28.7

Apparently, Australian writers need a dose of humility – New Matilda on the Productivity Commission’s book report. (Does anybody else find it funny that they called it a ‘book report’. I did book reports in primary school!) Overland on the weirdness of Twilight. Early reviews of Inherent Vice, T. Pynchon’s new one. Time on the death of handwriting. Atlas [...]
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