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My mind drifts to an image of Carrie and the suggestive way she handed me her note. I remember she’s roommates with Dawn and I start picturing a threesome with them. I think about how her caretaking qualities must extend to the bedroom and I imagine her using her breasts in considerate ways. Some guys are ass men; others are into breasts, legs, or faces. My theory is that it has to do with the sexual position you prefer.
For the past six months I’ve had the great privilege of working at Text Publishing as a digital intern.
In Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It, philosopher Daniel Klein looks back at a notebook of quotes he collected in his younger days.
When Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower came ‘roaring out of forty years in obscurity’, as Helen Garner put it in the Australian’s 2012 round-up of best books, we didn’t know that we’d go on to republish all of Elizabeth’s work.
Congratulations to Carys Davies, author of The Travellers and Other Stories, on being awarded the prestigious 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for The Redemption of Galen Pike. The Award is the single biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories.
It is with great sadness that we farewell writer Tony Taylor, who died last month.
We’re honoured to have published Tony’s memoir of his experiences on the Cowichan River in Vancouver Island, Fishing the River of Time.
Earlier this week the Age published a piece by Arnold Zable on the horrors of refugee detention on Manus Island.
Arnold Zable is a passionate advocate for human rights and is the immediate past president of PEN Melbourne.
In the spring a young woman’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of books.
At least it does in Melbourne, where ‘spring weather’ means ‘bring a spare coat and umbrella actually just don’t bother going outside everything is horrible.
