Well the weather was revolting today, but it was toasty warm in the State Library of NSW for the Sydney Writers’ Festival ‘Forest for the Trees’ seminar on Aussie publishing. Sold out (like last year), the event ran for an …
Last week I confessed I have never read any of Jeffrey Eugenides’ books, but that I was planning to fix this soon. Having seen him speak on Thursday (May 17) at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival I now absolutely cannot wait to …
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides has criticised the Pulitzer Prize board’s decision not to award a fiction prize this year, during an interview at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival, warning the move could detriment the industry. “There’s not too many people that think …
