Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life
OUP $26.95 hb, 294 pp
Literary Studies
Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
by Peter Steele •
‘Anecdotes’ meant originally ‘the unpublished’ – sometimes, no doubt, the unprintable. Nowadays we think of them as being tales which have something or other up their sleeves: a morsel of irony, a pinch of encouragement, a gesture of affectation. Anecdotes are yarns which have had a couple of drinks.
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