Casting couch

I picked up this meme from Mark at LP and thought: it’s got nothing to do with books but I’m sure I can make it count as a post in times as lean as these. (Yes and it’s naval-gazing and somewhat frivolous but this is the interweb…)
And the meme is: who would I like to [...]

Just links

I promise, I am working on a decent post. Just trying to find time. And energy. In the meantime, amuse yourselves with these (some are a little old – so sue me):

ABC Radio National is now offering a podcast service for its Books and Writing program. Sigh. The four episodes on offer at [...]

Listen to your favourite blogs

Something to try for the weekend: via if:book, Talkr takes any text blog and turns it into a podcast. I like the idea but would rather listen to the dulcet tones of the bloggers themselves than some anonymous voice. A blog reading anyone? Blog-slam? Ok, I’m getting silly now.

Revenge of the librarians

As a keen library user and offspring of a family of librarians, I was amused to read Libraries for Dummies. Now I know it’s not all good to be dissing on the patrons, but some of the stories here are just to good to pass up. I was particularly pleased with this effort on the [...]

Still here

I have not disappeared, I am still here. My life has recently turned, erm, upside down and I have had no time to read, let alone blog. I am also looking for somewhere else to host Stack as I have to move it from its current home. Any ideas welcome.
**25 August UPDATE: Stack has indeed [...]

Silence = books

Is this po-mo gone mad? (Hang on, what am I saying?) Myles Weber argues that we can read an author’s silences as much as we read their books.
“In 20th- and early-21st-century America, unproductive writers have been able to command serious critical attention and remain celebrities by offering the public volumes of silence, which have been [...]

Yes, more books

I’ve been out of Sydney for four days. My wonderful boss(es) agreed to allow me a week off at short notice so I took off on a cheap flight to a little seaside village on the North Coast. (It’s not THAT special – my family lives there!). Anyway, whenever I go home to visit the [...]

I love the BBC

I love the BBC. Really, I do. They are just so with it on the web it’s frightening. It’s all content-driven, it’s all good stuff, it just, well, it rocks basically.

Stuff happens

Currently playing at the Seymour Centre, David Hare’s Stuff Happens is the subject of the ‘complete review’ at the Literary Salon.

Favourite word

I marked this for posting a couple of weeks ago but have been rather slovenly of late, what with holidays, small children, general malaise. Anyway, enough of my excuses, this website is looking for your favourite word. I think another reason I took so long was that I was trying to think of my favourite [...]