Drusilla Modjeska
Perhaps I’m just being fashionably late, but I’ve just read Drusilla Modjeska’s 2013 Seymour Biography Lecture and it’s brilliant. Modjeska ponders her “defection from that borderline ground between the biographical and the fictive, my journey through the check-points into the land of the novel.” Her lecture takes us to the highlands of Papua New Guinea…
The Stella Count – Women and Book Reviews
Sad fact: The majority of book reviews in Australian publications are still of books by male writers. The Stella Prize, in conjunction with Books+Publishing, has just released the statistics for the 2013 Stella Count, tracking the relative number of reviews of books by women as compared with books by men in most of the major…
Laura Ingalls Wilder Autobiography
Hands up who loved the Little House on the Prairie books? Not just me then? Thought not. Then you might be a teensy bit interested in the forthcoming publication of Pioneer Girl – Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography. Now the writer’s autobiography, from which she drew the material that has delighted readers for decades, will be…
Confessional Writing – too much information?
Andie Fox blogs at bluemilk.wordpress.com and regularly writes opinion pieces for Fairfax. Her view of feminist motherhood is often feisty, thoughtful and insightful. Her posts regularly point me around the web to fascinating articles and sites. One of Fox’s recent Fairfax pieces (read it here) caught my eye. It’s about why women’s memoir writing is…