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Nov 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nigel Featherstone
During the summer of 1937-38, at Culburra Beach, Dharawal and Dhurga Country on the south coast of New South Wales, a young man emerges from the surf and lies face-first on the sand. His friend, who is holding a Rolleiflex camera, exposes two negatives, one of which he’ll dismiss due to technical inadequacies. Decades later, this image will be considered the most iconic photograph ever taken by an Australian. It will also be the most printed.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Nigel Featherstone | +1 more
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Nigel Featherstone | +1 more
The best books out in November: Leave The Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz, Max Dupain by Helen Ennis, Squat by John Safran, The Voice Inside by John Farhnam, Unlovable by Darren Hayes, Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester, Highways and Byways by Jimmy Barnes, Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class and Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine.Composite: Allen & Unwin / HarperCollins / Penguin Australia / Hachette / Text / HarperCollins / Murdoch Books / Black Inc The Voice Inside by John Farnham...
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nigel Featherstone
A ferocious intensity: that is the best way to describe Midnight Oil when they were at their peak. For anyone lucky enough to experience the band on stage, whether it be at a cavernous entertainment centre or a sticky pub, it was as though the Oils might explode at any moment, taking out their audience too.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Imogen Dewey |Nigel Featherstone |Joseph Cummins |Steph Harmon |Lucy Clark |Sian Cain | +3 more
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
sg.style.yahoo.com | Imogen Dewey |Nigel Featherstone |Joseph Cummins |Steph Harmon |Lucy Clark |Sian Cain | +3 more
This month’s picks include poetry, satire, a clutch of outstanding memoirs, even a cook book!Composite: Text / Harper Collins / Hardie Grant / Penguin / Hachette / Affirm Press / Allen & Unwin / UQP / Scribner36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam LeSixteen years after The Boat, Le returns with a small, white-hot book: a poem, or collection of stitched-together poems.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Nigel Featherstone
It is a demonstrable fact that Australia, where a rough masculinity rules the roost, has never really known what to do with its fiction writers. For decades after the continent was colonised, the only printed fiction available was imported from England. Settlers who dared to write novels soon discovered that unsympathetic copyright laws and pitiful royalties made it near impossible to find an audience and make a living.
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Jul 15, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Nigel Featherstone
Hooked up to oxygen, slumped in a chair, his back against a window covered by curtains, my father said, “I just want to go home and die in Braidwood.”It was April 2022 and my father, Jack Featherstone, was in Canberra hospital’s Covid-19 ward. He had reached his 93rd year and was experiencing ongoing heart issues on top of cancer and a coronavirus infection, so he knew his days were numbered.
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May 12, 2023 | 
canberratimes.com.au | Nigel Featherstone
Author Susan Johnson. Picture by Chrissa FatseaAphrodite's Breath: A Memoir, by Susan Johnson. Allen & Unwin, $34.99For decades, Australian literature has been fascinated with Greek culture, especially the life and history of its islands - Charmian Clift, George Johnston, Robert Dessaix and Dorothy Porter are writers who come to mind.
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Mar 17, 2023 | 
cowraguardian.com.au | Nigel Featherstone
Music producer Rick Rubin. Picture by Muriel Hurtado HerreraThe Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin. Canongate, $32. It is probably true that for time immemorial people have wanted to know how to be more creative, or how to be creative full stop, and have turned to books for advice, but it does seem that the pandemic has resulted in more books on the topic than usual. There has been Jerry Saltz's How to be An Artist, which appeared in 2020, just weeks before everything went haywire.
