Guilty Pleasures (Lights Out! Meet in the kitchen in one hour for a Midnight...
Kate Middleton While I often deny the word “guilty” in relation to pleasures, I admit the phrase has its attractions and, yes, usefulness. A guilty pleasure has a little subversive thrill embedded, and...
View ArticleThe present of books
Jill Jones Just recently, I found myself receiving a number of books from different sources over a matter of a couple of days. They are all, of course, poetry books. Despite the fact that poetry...
View ArticleMoving books
Kate Holden This post is a little late: the dilatoriness due not to lack of enthusiasm but the fact that I am in the middle of one of life’s cataclysms – moving house. And by ‘moving house’ you know...
View ArticleNext monthly blogger – Walter Mason!
Many thanks to David Brooks for his excellent posts last month, leading up to the issue 73.2 Liar/Lyre. This month, our fabulous blogger is Walter Mason. His bio is below: Walter Mason is an academic,...
View ArticleCabramatta Books
by Walter Mason At one point I wanted to do my post-graduate work on the free books distributed at Buddhist temples in Australia. The various media on offer – books, tracts, holy cards, pamphlets, CDs...
View ArticleOn Remembering Things
by Walter Mason Year by year I become more conscious that I commit less and less to memory. I was in that final generation that made one last half-hearted effort to commit some poetry to memory. The...
View ArticleThe Suitcase
by Aashish Kaul Sergei Dovlatov’s comic masterpiece The Suitcase begins with the author’s brief, pathetic conversation with a clerk at the Russian Office of Visas and Registrations (the ‘bitch at...
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