Richard Flanagan's closing address ON LOVE STORIES Flanagan was introduced by the festival director Emily and he kissed her after her opening comments. When he did this he lifted his foot back and it was a very cute beginning to his talk on love. I confess I've only read one Richard Flanagan book, no make [...]
Tag: PWF2014
PWF2014 catch-up post. OK. This one is weird but IT WASN’T MY FAULT
So I see an event listed. It's free. It falls into a slot where I have nothing to see. It's in a location that I know, ie I don't need to look at the map to get there. And it's got 'culture' in the title. The Lucky Culture, with Nick Cater, columnist with The Australian [...]
PWF14 catch-up: Martin Amis talks to Tony Jones
The young Martin Amis with stepmother, author Elizabeth Jane Howard, and father, author Kingsley Amis. On the Saturday night I went to the Perth Concert Hall to see Martin Amis talk to Tony Jones. I walked there from my accommodations, sculled a champagne and then counted the number of Amis titles for sale at the [...]
PWF2014 catch-up: The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton speaks with Susan Wyndham
On the Saturday (22 Feb) I went to listen to Eleanor Catton talk with Susan Wyndham about The Luminaries. I think this was the day I wore my new navy skirt I had bought in the op-shop at Freo the day before, when we went to find the Eyrie building. This is a skirt which [...]
PWF Day 1, Publishers Seminar, Session 5. THE PITCH.
What we've all been waiting for, and on the day, the Pitch session was mentioned throughout, with info about how it would work. This is how it worked:People were invited to put their names into a box and we were told they'd be pulled at random, and possibly up to ten or so would be [...]
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