You’ve heard of course of the slow food movement. Well, I’ve launched the slow blogging movement. There were some very funny people at Byron Bay Writers Festival, some of whom are known as comedians such as the brilliant John Doyle (doesn’t everyone love him?), Lily Bragge, and then there are the people who tell very [...]

Apologies for not ‘live’ blogging on Sunday. The Wi Fi Gods dictated against it so I’ll put up the posts over the next day .. I watched the session where Sally Neighbour talked about interviews with profound and unexpected consequences such as that with Jack Thomas where the interview material was used as evidence against [...]

John Keane, Professor of Politics, is so easy to listen to and right across so many issues. He is despairing of the K-Mart vs KK-Mart style of the Australian election contenders. He recently returned to Australia after many years spent predominantly in the UK. His most recent book is The Life And Death Of Democracy, [...]

A somewhat surreal interview between Romana Koval and Bret Easton Ellis, a little like when Parkinson and Meg Ryan were not quite on the same page. Meanwhile Kathy Lette schooled Simon Marnie in the finer points of quip-lashing. Ramona asked a Book Show kind of question, and B-E-E mused about watching ?this woman, what is [...]

Post by Ryan Butler. I must admit to a serious unfamiliarity with the literary magazine. I say serious because my sudden awareness of it has filled enormous void in my knowledge about where it is I am supposed to get the real news from- that is, thoroughly researched, well written, informative, and penetrating writing which [...]

Where Fatima Bhutto’s (who pulled out) name appears on the printed programme you will find Megan Stack, a foreign correspondent for the LA Times. She has covered Afghanistan and Iraq and 20 other countries but says Lebanon was the hardest war, and it’s difficult to remain objective when you are embedded and under sustained attack. [...]

I know one is meant to let people have it in blogs. Be critical. But I am too relaxed. Maybe a bit later. After lunch. Is there something in my tea and porridge? I made a point of catching the Doctor, Doctor session with Jacinta Halloran and Karen Hitchcock. Chair Murray Waldren was clearly enchanted [...]

To add to the expression used by Peter Skrzynecki, the odd pairing of the proverbial old tortoise, in Steve (beating to his own drum), and two young hares, in Tom Cho and Angela Meyer, LiteraryMinded, struck a surprising balance in this session. Although, there was no winner,and this was no race, I did find the [...]