Gillian Welch's Long-Awaited New Album
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And just when you explore what we, as a global community, Obreht, who became the People who read are think maybe you’re imagining the problem need to do in the next ten years in order to youngest woman ever to win more interesting and as larger than it is, something comes along to survive and flourish. Speakers include Tim the Orange Prize, when her better furnished to confirm all your suspicions. Flannery, Michael Shermer and many more. debut novel The Tiger’s Wife imagine different worlds Readings will be there too! For tickets and In Australia, it was the all-male Miles short- was awarded the prize on 8 than our own, with the more information, visit www.thinkinc.org.au. list – the second in three years. That’s given June. The prize comes with exception of lunatics, drunks, mystics added impetus to a concerted effort to set up £30,000 and ‘celebrates STORYTIME AT THE STATE and the occasional genius. I figure it’s an Australian version of the Orange Prize. excellence, originality and accessibility in best to keep within swimming distance (Declaration: I’m on the steering commit- women’s writing from throughout the LIBRARY OF VICTORIA of sanity and work with those who only tee for the fledgling prize, along with all the world’. The Tiger’s Wife is available from Join us for our very first storytime held at exhibit small amounts of the former. women involved in the Readings’ Interna- Readings at a special price of $24.95 the State Library of Victoria Readings shop. tional Women’s Day event that started it all.) (Orion, PB, Normally $29.99). Author Sally Gould will read from her beau- What’s the best book you’ve read lately? It’s a little-known fact that the bestselling tiful Chase through Venice. For children aged Woefully, too many books published out- Orange Prize winners (including Andrea MELBOURNE two to five years old. 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The largest film Bernofsky) is a magisterial fable-like elegy READINGS AUSTRALIAN The idea that women’s writing is valued less festival in Australia, MIFF has showcased to place and time that distils the last than men’s was unwittingly given an extra some of cinema history’s most beloved BOOK CLUB century of German history and emotion dollop of credibility lately, when the winner films over its 60 years, including Seven Interested in Australian literature? Join a into a slender 150 pages. Brilliant. of the Nobel Prize for Literature, V.S. Samurai (Kurosawa), Orpheus (Cocteau), Readings Australian Book Club. The unique Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais), Paths of feature of our club is that only Australian What have you noticed people buying Naipaul, declared that he considered no lately? woman writer his equal. He dismissed Jane Glory (Kubrick), 8 1/2 (Fellini), Love in the literature is read and discussed. 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