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Olympic gold medalist vs 8 year old boy

C. S. Lewis, advice to a young writer

An outstanding problem.

Jeremy Brett was and is Sherlock Holmes.-SH

BOOK REVIEW: Anna Funder (2024) Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. fabians.org.au/book_review_an…

Truman Capote, born 100 years ago on Sep 30 1924, at Book Culture, New York

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Government or bureaucrats shouldn’t decide what’s true or false — that’s why we are standing firm against Labor’s Misinformation Bill. Every Australian has the right to free speech. The Coalition will continue to protect open discussion and debate, which are essential to our

We have a new record! The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search verified that this massive number is indeed prime. Which also means that a new perfect number has been discovered. The last record held for an unusually long time—almost 6 years. We’ll see how long this stands.

Legendary Melbourne poet π.O. (Pi.O.) has been announced the winner of the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award! He will receive $20,000 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian literature. giramondopublishing.com/pi-o-wins-2024…

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ASKING FOR YOUR HELP! PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: At the request of several people, we have started a Petition to request President Trump and the committee to include General Chuck Yeager in the first 100 statues in the National Garden of American Heroes that President Trump has

Gender divide screaming loud... Helen Garner's ode to masculinity: 'The Season' captures misogyny perfectly independentaustralia.net/life/art-displ… via IndependentAustralia rose sorenson

Dear Hivemind: please can anyone tell me the details of the heirs and assigns, or literary executor(s), of the journalist, editor, broadcaster and author Collin Brooks MC (1893-1959)?

While we were seeing a lunar eclipse from Earth, a solar eclipse was occurring on the Moon. Here it is, courtesy of Firefly Aerospace. It kind of looks like an annular eclipse, but that's not the edge of the Sun. It's a circle of sunlight refracting through Earth's atmosphere.

There are some great photos emerging from the eclipse last night – and these two really captured my interest. The first is a time-lapse photo over Launch Complex 39A at NASA NASA's Kennedy Space Center Space Center in Florida. The other is a flawless “diamond ring” (of the Earth blocking out

A Happy Birthday to Tom Lehrer, born this day in 1928. Happy Birthday!

This is a brilliant and fair-minded article that cuts Helen Garner's overblown reputation down to size. A pity it's paywalled because it's a must-read.

At last a review of Helen Garner praising the many good bits while unseduced by the rest. It nails the coyness, trembling on the precipice edge of dishonesty, her suspect curation of the chronology, & the unavoidable conclusion she's neither a novelist at heart nor Janet Malcolm.