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State Library is a home for readers and writers, literature and storytelling. Want to search the latest issue of a journal or magazine? Desperate to find your next favourite book or essay? Need a podcast to listen to while you write? Here, staff from Stories and Ideas and black&write! share the stories they love each month. You’ll also find our latest interviews with local writers and creatives.
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It's a joy to read about the obsessions of other authors. The late, great Gabrielle Carey's years of scholarship on James Joyce are evident in her unusual biography of the man, his married life, and his writing life. The book is called James Joyce: A Life and instead of being weighed down with footnotes and citations, it is slim and light. In doing away with those things, Anthony Uhlmann argues, Carey "cuts holes" and "traces lines" through Joyce's life. A creative, humorous biography.
Anthony Uhlmann's piece is published by The Conversation.
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Three exciting authors – Australia's Christos Tsiolkas, beloved US-based author Celeste Ng, and the Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch – take the stage for this conversation at Sydney Writers Festival. They discuss their writing habits, how they feel about deleting drafts that aren't going anywhere, and their pet writing peeves.
via ABC Radio's The Bookshelf
