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CRAIG MUNRO Literary Lion Tamers: Book editors who made publishing history. Reviewed by Bruce Sims

CRAIG MUNRO Literary Lion Tamers: Book editors who made publishing history. Reviewed by Bruce Sims

by NRB | 9 Feb 2021 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Craig Munro examines the author-editor relationship through the lives of four Australian editors. Like most editors, sometimes I wish that I had a whip that I could use with authors. However, as Craig Munro demonstrates in his engaging tour through Australian letters,...
CATHY PERKINS The Shelf Life of Zora Cross: extract

CATHY PERKINS The Shelf Life of Zora Cross: extract

by NRB | 24 Apr 2020 | Extracts, Non-fiction | 2 comments

This week’s extract is from Cathy Perkins’s biography of Australian poet Zora Cross. Largely unknown today, she was a sensation when, still in her 20s, she published the bestselling Songs of Love and Life in 1917. Frankly erotic by the standards of...
GEORGINA ARNOTT The Unknown Judith Wright. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

GEORGINA ARNOTT The Unknown Judith Wright. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

by NRB | 29 Nov 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Arnott reveals the literary growth of an important Australian artist, bringing to life a complex, contradictory human being. Georgina Arnott was surprised to realise that existing biographies, autobiographical works and critical studies of Judith Wright merely skimmed...
             

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