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Review of Drink Against Drunkenness in ABR
There is a review of Drink Against Drunkenness in Australian Book Review, April 2023.
Buy Drink Against Drunkennes direct from me
If you would like to buy a copy of Drink Against Drunkenness direct from me, send me an email with your postal address and phone number. It’s $30 AUD per copy plus $9.70 postage within Australia for 1 or 2 copies. I will send bank details for electronic transfer, or you can pay with Paypal.
new review of Drink Against Drunkenness
“”I’m left with a sense of the biographer’s great generosity both to the past and to posterity in recording Soldatow’s life, and, in the background, the poignant story of a generation and its misadventures and partially-filled ambitions over the decades.” In this review by biographer Nathan Hobby, found here:https://nathanhobby.com/2023/06/07/drink-against-drunkenness-the-life-and-times-of-sasha-soldatow/
Bit of video from bookshop event April 2023
Here’s some video posted by Nandita Bose with whom I had a “conversation” at the Atta Galatta Bookshop in Bangalore, India on 23 April 2023
https://twitter.com/nand_bo/status/1650338087770234882?s=48&t=fZ6FEjPU0wQFaPefC7T1wA
Reading and talk in Bangalore, 23 April ’23
At the AttaGallatta bookstore, Bangalore on Sunday 23 April 2023–reading, and conversation with Nandita Bose
The Jamun, Bangalore, all of April 2023
A whole month at this beautiful, peaceful,comfortable house in one of the leafier parts of Bangalore. At the right time of year many writers gather for the Sangam House season here, but at this wrong season I am mainly alone. Open the link to see house, rooms. TheJamun.com
Udaipur, lecture at MLS university, 31 March 2023
Professor Pradeep Trikha, who I’ve known for 20 years, invited me to give a lecture at the Department of English at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. I also enjoyed lunch with members of the department, and some students took me to see the beauties of this town of lakes and palaces.
Delhi. Lecture at GGSI university on 17 March 2023
Arrived in Delhi early on 16 March. On 17 I gave a lecture at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, having been kindly invited by Professor Vivek Sachdeva, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It was a pleasure to meet academics and students there.
LTP publishing newsletter Title To Come
Latest edition of my very infrequent Local Time Publishing Newsletter, with news of the recent biography, some new items about the last novel, and other briefly expressed news, found here
https://createsend.com/t/i-92984B354735CFC12540EF23F30FEDED
brilliant new essay on Turn Left at Venus
In Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022): JASAL, by independent scholars Leigh Dale and Harper Boon, “Exploring Author-Reader Relationships in Turn Left at Venus”. The full text can be read at the link to the PDF at https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/17118.
The Abstract [same link] says:
The work of Australian writer Inez Baranay is read in the light of Stephen Orgel’s assertion that ‘If readers construct books, books also construct readers,’ and a parallel remark by Elizabeth Webby, that the ‘life/fiction opposition is too simple: the values people act upon in life may, in fact, be derived from novels they have read.’ While making some reference to Baranay’s career as a whole, our focus is the 2019 novel Turn Left at Venus (2019), a structurally complex book about a (fictional) writer of science fiction whose most renowned work is titled Turn Left At Venus. The essay argues that, in reflecting on the making of literary values among those in the book industry, in scholarly environs, and general readers (particularly fans), reading Turn Left at Venus prompts questions about the role of gender, sexuality, cultural and linguistic difference, travel, and genre, as they shape the valuing of books and writers in Australia.