This is a cross-posting of a guest post for Australian Women Writers – please leave comments there! My previous posts about the AWW2012 reading challenge can be found here and here. “Used with great caution and suspicion, a literary canon, a list of significance, may have some use in guiding and informing inexperienced readers, but [...]
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On Gender and Voice
Saturday, June 30, 2012
The following is a guest post I wrote for Shelleyrae at Book’d out who was kind enough to feature The Rest is Weight on her blog (thanks Shelleyrae!) and which I am cross-posting here with her permission. There’s a related post on the Australian Women Writers challenge here. As a young writer, you often get [...]
On Books and Gender
Sunday, March 25, 2012
This year, I’m taking the AWW challenge to read books by Australian women writers. I’ve read ten without reviewing any, and wanted to set down some thoughts – not as a review, but as a sort of pre-review purge and audit of the status of women, at least in my reading list. It’s turned out [...]
