When was the last time you just hung out with a friend? (And I don’t mean a dinner booked two months in advance) | Brigid Delaney
By Brigid Delaney
Long, unstructured hangouts are increasingly rare – and some young people aren’t experiencing them
#Friendship #Socialmedia #Australianews #Mobilephones #HelenGarner #Melbourne #BrigidDelaney
Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week in the last 24 hours.
Some 90 participants, including key national and international guests such as Helen Garner, Toni Jordan, Trent Dalton, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith, have withdrawn in protest from Adelaide Writers Week, a core program of the 2026 Adelaide Festival, after the Festival Board’s decision yesterday [8 January] to remove award-winning Palestinian-Australian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Writers Week program.
Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah, artshub.com.au #2026AdelaideFestival #AdelaideWritersWeek #HelenGarner #international #MelissaLucashenko #politics #RandaAbdelFattah #ToniJordan #TrentDalton #ZadieSmith
Beth (reading a newspaper): Here's a lady who had a hysterectomy. She took her uterus home with her in a jar so that her son and his friends could see it. Then she was going to bury it and plant a tree over it.
Husband: This is all you see in the papers? Why don't you read the real news?
Beth: That's pretty real, isn't it?
- The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Just watched "Monkey Grip" the 1982 film based on what is probably my favourite Australian novel. Never knew the film version existed until today (it's on iview for free). It was definitely missing the magic of the book but it has some moments.
"I'm on good terms with him, but he's not on good terms with me."
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don’t forget the alt text).
Day 20/20
#20books #20books20days #bookstodon #TheFirstStone #HelenGarner
#HelenGarner fans or anyone interested in exploring her writing might like this ABC Nightlife with host Suzanne Hill talking to author, bookseller and critic Sean O'Beirne, who's written an essay on Garner as part of the Writers on Writers series.
PS. I've also read and reviewed O'Beirne's short story collection, A Few Things Before The End (for Writing NSW in 2020) and highly recommend it. 📖
Link to Nightlife episode on the #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/helen-garner/102721858
Link to my review on #WritingNSW: https://writingnsw.org.au/a-couple-of-things-before-the-end-stories-by-sean-obeirne/
開始抄 Helen Garner 1987-1995 的日記：One Day I’ll Remember This
記得之前曾問過是否有人使用歷史現在時記英文日記，今天發現 Helen Garner 的日記的很多條目就用了歷史現在時。
所有想開始記英文日記的母語為中文的朋友都推薦使用歷史現在時，能大大簡化時態問題。（暫時不考慮文學性。）
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