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Fatima Bhutto, Complexities of storytelling, Nonfiction

By TF | Published: August 6, 2010
Fatima Bhutto was due to be keynote speaker at the 2010 Byron Bay Writers Festival (but pulled out for, as far as I can tell, undisclosed reasons). While I knew there was a trend of getting individuals who are not, strictly speaking, writers to speak at writing festivals, the addition of Fatima piqued my curiosity. [...]
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On Precious and why stories need to be told

By TF | Published: March 3, 2010
Lee Daniels’ critically lauded film Precious is, in an Aristotelian framework, a comedy. It is about the rise in fortune of a lower class individual who the audience finds sympathetic – and it has a happy ending [had Aristotle's commentary on Comedy survived we'd no doubt have more to work with, but that's about the best we've got]. [...]
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Walls and apricots

By TF | Published: February 5, 2010
Once upon a time, there was a wall. The building of it was one of the biggest undertakings in human history. The story of this wall defined a nation, running through it both metaphorically and literally. Once upon a time, there were people who, from a distance, watched a great wall rise, fall, and rise [...]
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Story. Telling.

By TF | Published: November 10, 2009
I have, of late, been questioning my motivations as a writer. This does not stem from an existential crisis – which, in itself, is unusual for me – or a particularly harsh rejection note, but rather the way I have been looking at writing and writers, and at what I have been reading. This, no [...]
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