...freshly back from reading at the Wheeler Centre's Debut Mondays event...mostly I have to say how impressed I was with my co-readers: Jon Bauer, whose Rocks in the Belly isn't specifically about Melbourne, but who is now a Melbourne writer (thanks to a grand-sounding Distinguished Talent Visa)...I've bought his book to find out if the cat in the washing machine goes through the delicate cycle or not; Joel Deane, a former political speechwriter who has a fine way with the Aussie vernacular and rainy nights outside Crown Casino in The Norseman's Song...I've bought that onto find out whose head is in the box...and finally, Kent MacCarter, who writes poetry about trams and city streets, in IIn the Hungry Middle of Here...my goodness me, they were all fabulous and really you should rush out and buy their books now. and mine, of course!
I do like the Wheeler Centre; there were publishers, other writers and even a Premier's Literay Award winner milling about with glasses of wine afterward. but I think they should put in armchairs and a smoking room and we could really make a proper clubhouse out of it...
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