Unboxing advance copies of ‘Snow’s and the golden age of Australian department stores’ #Snows ⁦Hardie Grant Books⁩ ⁦University of Melbourne⁩ ⁦La Trobe University⁩

Pretty excited about these: unboxing my author copies of ‘Red Earth’ #Mildura #MilduraRegion ⁦Melbourne University Publishing⁩ ⁦Mildura Council⁩

The deadline for abstracts for the upcoming ASAL Mini Conference on Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies has been extended! You now have until the 3 October 2025 to get your abstracts submitted! asal.org.au/conferences/mi…

Important article going behind-the-scenes with AI trainers. theguardian.com/technology/202…

The Game is one of the great Australian political books.

Stationing 1200 American service personnel in the southern suburbs of Perth would seem to me to make it much harder to stay out of any future wars we may not want to be a part of. abc.net.au/news/2025-09-1…

"I am still fond of the place but wish they could find the courage they so eagerly honour. Most soldiers I know are honest ambassadors for truth-telling about the experience of war. They know myth can get them killed.” theguardian.com/australia-news…

As a child of the tape age*, this is beautiful. (*The format my dad clung to into the mid-90s.)

Join the Film Heritage Academy for a screening of the silent era film Snow White (1916) with live music accompaniment. The film will be introduced by Ursula Dubosarsky, Australian prize-winning author of over 60 books for children and young adults. rahs.org.au/film-heritage-…

Prompted by an excellent recent Backlisted Podcast podcast episode about The Tombs of Atuan, I’m rereading all the Earthsea books. Loved them as a child, now finding them even richer as an adult. Ursula Le Guin is incomparable.

When it's Ben Roberts Smith's mum vs Andrew Hastie... whose side are you on?! Alas, her attack does not seem to be centred on concern over his opposition to climate action. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Is memoir a contract of truth—or a crafted story? Hear Elleke Boehmer & Kate Kennedy debate. 13 Oct, 5:30–7:00pm, Wolfson. Free and open to all. shorturl.at/ukmBx #Ethics #LifeWriting Faculty of English

Isn't this just the most wonderful news! Thank you anonymous donor for recognising the importance of the NDC to Australian literary and linguistic culture.

Here's a thing ... Emily Gallagher's "Playtime" to be launched by Justine Clarke at Harry Hartog Books, Kambri, ANU, Monday 22 September.

There are currently 308 surviving spouses of US World War I veterans, and even 12 surviving spouses of Spanish American war veterans…amazing.

Three years ago, the American public was told in passing that the "pandemic is over." PMC estimates that since that day, U.S. residents have experienced nearly 1 billion SARS-CoV-2 infections. Specifically, 974,190,702 infections, based on wastewater-derived estimates. 1/5

Rachel Franks Dr Rachel Franks (she, her) reviews ‘Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son’ by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex La Trobe University Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In today’s The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age my story about Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower. My biography is out on Wednesday. smh.com.au/culture/books/…