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AUGUST 2008 / FREE BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE, ANDWWW.READINGS.COM.AU CHECK EVENT DETAILS AT Readings Monthly 9/52).$%0%.$%.4"//+ -53)#!.$$6$.%73,%44%2s%6%.43s.%72%,%!3%3s2%6)%73 PHOTO CREDIT: SINGING BOWL MEDIA PHOTO CREDIT: Melbourne Writers Festival 2008 >> p 7 August book, CD and DVD new releases. More inside >> POP CD CLASSICAL Fleet Foxes Audivi Vocem Fleet Foxes The Hilliard Ensemble $24.95 >> p27 $32.95 August Only: FICTION FICTION NON-FICTION DVD $24.95 >> p30 The Good Thief Dissection Freedom Paradox Inland Empire Hannah Tinti Jacinta Halloran Clive Hamilton $34.95 >> p25 $29.99 $24.95 $27.95 $22.95 $35 >> p17 >> p9 >> p5 August event highlights. More Readings events inside >> JAMES CLIVE HAMILTON GO GIRL HALLIDAY AT CINEMA AUTHORS AT READINGS NOVA AT READINGS HAWTHORN PORT MELBOURNE !,,3(/03/0%.$!93sCARLTON 309 LYGON 34sHAWTHORN 701 GLENFERRIE RD 9819 1917 s MALVERN 185 GLENFERRIE RD 9509 1952 s PORT MELBOURNE 253 BAY ST 9681 9255 s ST KILDA 112 ACLAND ST 9525 3852 s WWW.READINGS.COM.AU s EMAIL [email protected] Readings Events in August All our events are free, unless otherwise stated. For more information, please call the shop where the event is to be held, or the booking number provided. economic history. Wednesday 6 as she starts to scrutinise her every 1 JAMES HALLIDAY 11 STEFAN LASZCUCK August, 6.30pm, Readings action and question her worth. A special event and Antoni Jach will Carlton. Free, but please book on Deeply ashamed of her mistake, she wine tasting with launch Stefan’s 9347 6633. retreats into family life, only to find James Halliday. I Dream of that her husband seems preoccupied The James Halliday Magda (A&U, 6 HANIFA DEEN with a younger colleague. Dissection Wine Companion PB, $23.95). Melbourne Univer- is our very own pick for the August 2009 Edition Funny and very sity National CAL Australian Feature. (Hardie Grant, surprising, this Centre of Tuesday 12 August, 6.30pm, PB, Normally novel of brothers, Excellence of Readings Carlton. Free, but $35, Our special price $29.95) family and loss is the winner of the Islamic Studies and please book on 9347 6633. will be available. Friday 1 2007 The Australian/Vogel Literary Readings invites August, 6.30pm, Readings Award. George Harrison is afraid of you to an ‘in 13 CLIVE HAMILTON Hawthorn. $15 includes three the dark. His father is dead and his conversation’ with Clive brings us a wine tastes. Strictly limited places. mother lives in la-la land. Reeling author Hanifa Deen and The Age’s radical reconsidera- Bookings essential: 9819 1917. from a broken heart, and still cop- Religion Editor, Barney Zwartz, tion of the meaning Supported by Annie’s Lane. ing with the trauma of a childhood discussing Deen’s latest book, The of freedom and home invasion, George has retreated Jihad Seminar (UWA Press, PB, morality in the into a private world of sleep where $29.95), and her close encounter modern world in his new book The he dreams about falling in love with with Victoria’s religious hate speech Freedom Paradox (A&U, PB, $35). comedienne Magda Szubanski. law. In 2002, the Islamic Council of He argues that the paradox of 5 Stefan Laszczuk is currently under- BILL KENT Victoria lodged a complaint of modern consumer life is that we are taking a PhD in Creative Writing Australians in Italy: religious vilification against a deprived of our inner freedom by from the University of Adelaide. Contemporary Lives Pentecostal para-church organisa- our very pursuit of our own desires. Monday 11 August, 6pm for and Impressions tion, called Catch the Fire Inc. From He turns to metaphysics to find a 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Free, edited by Bill the outset, freedom of speech versus source of transformation that lies no need to book. Kent, Ros Pesman freedom from vilification came beyond the cultural, political and and Cynthia Troup under the spotlight. Over time, social philosophies that form the 11 MICHAEL VEITCH (Monash Univer- Deen came to understand that bedrock of contemporary western Michael’s Fly sity e-Press, PB, religious vilification was only one thought. His search takes him to an (Viking, HB, $37.95) will be launched by strand of a more complex story. unexpected conclusion: that we $49.95) is a Professor Ian Donaldson, with a Hanifa Deen is a Melbourne-based cannot be truly free unless we thrilling volume performance by David Eckstein author and social commentator. commit ourselves to a moral life. of true stories from and Jin Shi Tang.Tuesday 5 Wednesday 6 August, 6pm for The implications of this conclusion August, 6.30pm, Readings airmen in the Second World War. 6.30pm start. Yasuko Hiraoka challenge many deeply held beliefs Carlton. Free, no need to book. It’s an amazing exploration into the Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney in modern secular society. lives of the men who fought the Myer Asia Centre, University Wednesday 13 August, 6 war from the air. Including stories GREG CLARK of Melbourne. Grid Reference: 6.30pm, Cinema Nova, Lygon of bravery and fear, moments of A Farewell to Alms: I21. Free, book on 9347 6633. Street, Carlton. Free, but book- terror and relief and vivid details A Brief Economic ings are essential on 9347 6633. History of the World 7 ROSS HONEYWILL of flying under fire, Fly is Michael Veitch’s second collection of inter- (Princeton Lamarck’s Evolution 13 OUYANG YU views with 24 pilots, navigators and University Press, (Pier 9, PB, Supported by gunners – now all in their 80s. HB, $46.95) $29.95) by Ross Asialink, University Monday 11 August, 6.30pm, examines why Honeywill takes us of Melbourne. On Readings Hawthorn. Free, but some parts of the to a time before the Smell of an Oily please book on 9819 1917. world are so rich and others so Darwin, when Rag (Wakefield, poor. Why did the Industrial Jean-Baptiste de PB, $27.95) draws 12 JACINTA HALLORAN Revolution – and the unprecedent- Lamarck created examples from low IN CONVERSATION WITH ed economic growth that came the first theory of evolution, an idea and high culture CLARE FORSTER with it – occur in eighteenth-cen- so powerful it promised to become and from the everyday and the Clare Forster, an tury England, and not at some the great unifying force of science. literary life. Based on the unique biji agent for Curtis other time, or in some other place? Instead, for two hundred years xiaoshuo (pen-notes fiction) genre Brown, will be in Why didn’t industrialisation make Lamarck’s grand idea polarised the and written in an accessible, conversation with the whole world rich – and why scientific establishment and became readable and deliberately un-aca- Jacinta Halloran did it make large parts of the world a byword for discredited beliefs ... demic style, On the Smell of an Oily about Jacinta’s first novel, Dissection even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, until, on the eve of his bicentenary, Rag is a seminal non-fiction book (Scribe, PB, Normally $27.95. Our Gregory Clark tackles these science finally caught up and that creates its own genre in its special price $22.95). Doctor Anna profound questions and suggests a proved him right. Ross Honeywill exploration of cultural, linguistic McBride’s life is starting to unravel. new and provocative way in which is the is CEO of NeoNeighbour- and literary similarities, differences The mother of two boys and a culture explains the wealth, and the hood.com and an authority on the and parallels between the English dedicated GP, she is being sued for poverty, of nations. Gregory Clark influence of genetic and evolution- and the Chinese language in a medical negligence — a case of is chair of the economics depart- ary change. Thursday 7 August, distinctly Australian context. delayed diagnosis. Anna’s day-to-day ment at the University of Califor- 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Ouyang edits Australia’s only work becomes increasingly difficult nia. He has written widely about Free, no need to book. Chinese literary journal, Otherland, 2 and writes and teaches part-time in childhood and personality of these valuable art materials? Who has China and Australia. Wednesday criminals, and includes interviews loved it? Relinquished it? Carried it Kids Events 13 August, 6.30pm, Readings with the criminals themselves, with them across the world? This 2 LISA GORTON Carlton. Free, but please book on family members and the police and beguiling and multi-layered novel Join us as Antoni 9347 6633. detectives involved. Rochelle illustrates Claire’s place as a talented Jach launches corresponded with every offender young Australian author. Claire Cloudland in the book, even if they were in Thomas has published short stories (Macmillian, PB, jail, and her search led to some in journals such as Meanjin, $15). After a year fascinating revelations about how Overland and Australian Short 14 of endless rain, ELIZABETH GROSZ criminals are ‘created’. Friday15 Stories. Wednesday 20 August, cities are flooded; World-renowned August, 6.30pm, Readings 6.30pm, Readings Carlton, families are living contemporary Carlton. Free, no need to book. Free, no need to book. on rooftops. Drawn into a world in feminist and the clouds, Lucy finds a strange soci- philosopher Profes- 16 28 YU JIHUI READINGS IN ety of injustice, weird beauty and sor Elizabeth Grosz Prior to the play, PSYCHOANALYSIS danger. A gripping tale for young will deliver the Zhang Da Li and This event – presented with readers! Saturday 2 August, keynote lecture in the Village of Big the Deakin Masters Program 3.30pm, Readings Hawthorn.