Julia Leigh

Oct 4, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Julia Leigh

Lynne Spender said she’d never had a fear of death. She was a confirmed atheist, not agnostic. She waited until I had returned from holidays to tell me she had pancreatic cancer. At age 76 she’d been given a wary three to six months to live. In the mid 1990s she was my boss. When I called up from Tasmania to extend my holiday leave, in order to research my first novel, she sighed and agreed. One day she came to the office in mismatched shoes.

Aug 27, 2024 | paw.princeton.edu | Jane Goodall |Julia Leigh |Larry McMurtry

Gregory Berns ’86 is the distinguished professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University, but he is perhaps best known for starting a project to train dogs to lie still in MRI scanners so that he could figure out how their brains work. This led to the New York Times bestseller How Dogs Love Us and the follow-up What It’s Like to Be a Dog. In his latest book, Cowpuppy, we find Berns on a farm in rural Georgia raising miniature cows.

Feb 16, 2023 | smh.com.au | Julia Leigh

A friend contacted me this week to say she'd watched my film Sleeping Beauty on SBS World Movies last weekend. "Oh no," I said. "They always butcher it."For some ungodly reason - well, a fiscal reason - the majority publicly funded broadcaster sees fit to jam advertisements into feature films. It's a barbaric practice that would never fly in other countries. A Get-Up petition back in 2015 raised some 60,000 signatures in protest, to no avail. We all worked so hard to make Sleeping Beauty.

Feb 16, 2023 | watoday.com.au | Julia Leigh

OpinionBy Julia Leigh February 17, 2023 — 8.30amA friend contacted me this week to say she’d watched my film Sleeping Beauty on SBS World Movies last weekend. “Oh no,” I said. “They always butcher it.”For some ungodly reason – well, a fiscal reason – the majority-publicly-funded broadcaster sees fit to jam advertisements into feature films. It’s a barbaric practice that would never fly in other countries. A Get-Up petition back in 2015 raised some 60,000 signatures in protest, to no avail.