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Read Readings Monthly, May 2013 Here FREE MAY 2013 MARGO LaNAGAN ON HANNAH KENT / Mother’s DAY GIFT GUIDE Event Highlights A GOLDSMITH ANDRE ATE MOSSE WITH K SWINN LOUISE HBY ILLOUG BART W BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS MaY NEW RELEASES HANNAH KENT $32.99 / $26.95 p6 KY WINTER GROUP) ANNA C HE JA KRIEN T E ( $29.99 C IEN C p14 CLARE VANDERPOOL COVER ILLUSTRATION BY SOFT S COVER ILLUSTRATION $24.95 p19 LES MISÉRABLES $39.95 p20 SHE & HIM Nicki Greenberg on The Great Gatsby $26.95 / $21.95 p21 KATRI NA STR ICK LAND MORE INSIDE... LOVE, LOSS AND POWER IN THE ART WORLD The Perfect Gift For Mother’s Day AVAILABLE NOW CARLTON 309 Lygon St 9347 6633 HAWTHORN 701 Glenferrie Rd 9819 1917 MALVERN 185 Glenferrie Rd 9509 1952 ST KILDA 112 Acland St 9525 3852 READINGS AT THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA 328 Swanston St 8664 7540 READINGS AT THE BRAIN CENTRE 30 Royal Parade, Parkville 9347 1749 See shop opening hours, browse and buy online at www.readings.com.au Photo: Adrian Cook. THE MOST INSPIRING MUSIC STORY OF OUR GENERATION ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH EXCLUSIVE 15 TRACK ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MIXES IN-STORE MAY READINGS MONTHLY MAY 2013 3 This month’s news FREUD CONFERENCE 2013 WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE Mark’s At this year’s Melbourne Freud Conference, Carrie Tiffany has been announced as the winner eminent international and local psychoanalytic for the inaugural Stella Prize for her second novel, Say experts and thinkers will address the theme Mateship With Birds. Set up in order to celebrate ‘Uprooted Minds: Psyche and Society in Times Australian women’s writing, the Stella was named of Crisis’. Keynote speakers include Californian after iconic author Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ News and views from Readings’ researcher, writer and radio personality Dr Franklin and awards $50 000 to the best work managing director, Mark Rubbo Nancy Hollander and distinguished Australian by a woman writer over the past year across a barrister and refugee and human rights range of genres. At a packed awards ceremony You have to admit, women generally do things better and with a greater generosity of spirit than men. advocate Julian Burnside QC. The 2013 in Melbourne, Tiffany also announced that she That was certainly true of this year’s inaugural Stella Prize announcement at Melbourne’s Australian conference will be held at the Melbourne Brain would return $10 000 of her prize money to be Centre for Contemporary Art. The prize, if you didn’t know, honours Australian women’s writing. Centre (Kenneth Myer Building, Royal Parade, shared among her fellow shortlisted authors, Writers, publishers, agents and booksellers flocked from around the country to attend. It was a Parkville) on Saturday 18 May. Please visit Courtney Collins, Michelle de Kretser, Lisa wonderful, joyous occasion, with everyone, including the shortlisted writers who didn’t win, saying www.freudconference.com for the full program. Jacobson, Cate Kennedy and Margo Lanagan. how much they enjoyed it. Shortlisted author Michelle de Kretser (Questions of Travel) confided that she hadn’t won but she didn’t care; she felt so proud and honoured. Writer Helen Garner gave a MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL DSM-5 PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT wonderful personal address (I hope it’s published somewhere) about the agony and importance of JAZZ FESTIVAL 2013 prizes for writers. The winner was Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship With Birds. In her gracious The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical From 31 May to 9 June, Melbourne will come acceptance speech, Carrie asked her fellow shortlisted authors to join her on the podium and Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by alive with Australia’s largest jazz festival, announced that she was returning $10 000 of her prize money to be distributed amongst the other clinicians and researchers to diagnose and entertaining aficionados and newcomers alike writers. ‘It should be more,’ she said, ‘I wish it could be more, but in fact I have some heavy duty classify mental disorders, is the product of with more than 300 musicians and 100 events creditors at the moment and I don’t think I’m going to be able to keep this cheque secret.’ Carrie more than ten years of effort by hundreds of across the city. Highlights include legendary pointed out a number of coincidences – Michelle de Kretser had launched her book and shortlisted international experts. Readings is offering a American vocalist Cassandra Wilson and author Cate Kennedy had been one of the judges who gave her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for special pre-publication price on the DSM-5. multi-Grammy-Award winner Chucho Valdés Scientific Living, the Victorian Premier’s Award for an unpublished manuscript. She omitted one other Order before May 22 and receive the paperback and his Afro-Cuban Messengers. With late- coincidence – she has a writing studio above Stella Prize donor Patricia O’Donnell’s restaurant, the edition for the discounted price of $179 (was night art parties, intimate club gigs, film North Fitzroy Star. O’Donnell was very excited about Carrie’s win. $199) or the hardback edition for the discounted screenings, masterclasses and daily free price of $230 (was $266). Orders can be made at concerts, there’s something for everyone to Jane Palfreyman, Michelle de Kretser’s publisher at Allen & Unwin, was also at the Stella awards night. any Readings shop, or order online and receive enjoy. Visit www.melbournejazz.com for the She was in Melbourne to finish the final edit on Christos Tsiolkas’ new and as yet unnamed novel. It was, free shipping anywhere in Australia. full program and bookings. Readings is a proud she said, a masterpiece and very long: ‘All Christos’ books are long!’ The book is scheduled for October. sponsor of the Melbourne International Jazz Allen & Unwin also have a new Alex Miller novel lined up, to be launched after the Melbourne Writers Festival and will be selling CDs at selected gigs. SEIZURE CRIME + FOOD Festival, and Penguin have announced a new Tim Winton novel for later in the year, Eyrie. There are We’re also holding a fantastic jazz sale in stores also two big local titles in this issue of the Readings Monthly – Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites and Andrea to celebrate (further sale details below). SPECIAL OFFER Goldsmith’s The Memory Trap. So it’s shaping up to be a great year ahead for Australian fiction. Seizure is an invigorating new journal that showcases the talents of some of Australia’s Last year, the Pulitzer Prize board deemed that no American novel was worthy of winning. This year JAZZ SALE best young editors, writers and designers. The they found one, Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, a novel set in North Korea. I haven’t read Readings’ annual jazz sale is on again from May latest issue, Crime, features Gretchen Shirm on it yet but I remember one of our more prescient customers urging me to do so last year. Other winners 13 to June 11. It features the biggest names liking men we shouldn’t, P.M. Newton on the art were Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall from the jazz world, including Miles Davis, John of crime, felonious verse by Michael Farrell and (History), The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Coltrane and Keith Jarrett, as well as a huge much more. During May, buy Seizure: Crime in Reiss (Biography), Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds (Poetry) and Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, range of imports from the USA and Europe. any Readings shop or online and receive a copy the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King (General Non-Fiction). Prices start from $9.95. Sale online and in all of Seizure: Food free. Only while stocks last. shops except Readings at the Brain Centre. See more of Seizure at www.seizureonline.com. Readings Monthly is a free independent monthly newspaper published by Readings Books, Music & Film. 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