1. The person who passed the baton to you.
Genevieve at You Cried For Night. A fellow bookworm. Cheers.
2. Total volume of music files on your computer.
5.53GB. And rising. I am an iTunes convert. I don’t own a stereo – just plug the iBook into some speakers and we’re away. Still don’t own an iPod though.
3. [...]
Entries from May 2005
May 24, 2005
SWF live and streaming
Via Matilda, some events of the Sydney Writer’s Festival are to be streamed live by Bigpond. Although Telstra makes it sound as if you have to be on their broadband, anyone can get the stream. (Someone should tell Telstra that’s the beauty of the internet and their continual attempts to "proprietrise" it is tiresome in [...]
May 24, 2005
Ok, I’m going to pick a fight
"If we really push all classics, all the time, it gets too heavy," said
Kathryn Delaney, the English curriculum coordinator at Watertown High
School. ”When students bring a book home and their parents say, ‘I
read that when I was in school!’ a lot of kids don’t like it."
And your point is? Surely the learning of literature should [...]
May 24, 2005
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been anounced with the Book of Year being taken out by poetry. Samuel Wagan Watson’s Smoke Encrypted Whispers took the poetry and book of the year prizes. Tim Winton scooped the Christina Stead prize for fiction with The Turning. Full list of winners.
May 23, 2005
Theory, books and death
Two articles of note from the New York times (use login stackblog password stack):
Christopher Hitchens reviews The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism and decides that it “is a pointer to the abysmal state of mind that prevails in so many of our universities”.
A man dies with no will, leaving his large collection [...]
May 20, 2005
Surely not
I tried to run from it but apparently I can’t hide. I confess that I am a postmodernist. Well, that’s one intepretation…
May 20, 2005
Librarian 1 Poets 1
I didn’t post about this when I saw it and of course it’s now all over the web. In case you missed it: a librarian’s attempted exposure of the corruption in poetry awards and the subsequent stoush.
For the past year this chipper librarian has been moonlighting as the
anonymous operator of a Web site devoted to [...]
May 20, 2005
Thirtywhat?
Today I realised I was getting old when I saw an item about the John Marsden award and couldn’t think of anyone I could pass it on to. It’s a creative writing competition for those under 25. If know someone of such youth, feel free to check out the details.
Via Dumbfoundry.
