A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Image: The Pudding himself in Lavender Bay, Sydney; by SpacePotato via Flickr How did we miss this? A character in Peter Carey's novel Theft has a thing for Norman Lindsay's Magic Pudding. For him it is a shibboleth, an internalized...
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... fun, undoubtedly, but can also exponentially increase the work involved. 2) In recent interviews, Peter Carey and Andrew Sean Greer complained about reviews that betrayed a key secret of their respective novels. Well, Indignation affords a similar opportunity for betrayal – there's a key story element/twist, and it will be interesting to see how other reviewers, as well as I, deal...
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... Condon's epic novel in the running for the $25,000 Fiction Book Award. His book is up against Peter Carey's , J. M. Coetzee's , Helen Garner's and Tim Winton's .``It's an extremely strong shortlist and I'm very pleased to be there in the race,'' Condon said yesterday.``Of all the national awards obviously the one in my home State means the most to me and is closest to my heart. But...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
London-based publisher Faber and Faber has a new podcast page on its website. This is definitely worth keeping tabs on, as the first three podcasts include interviews with Peter Carey, Sebastian Barry and Junot Diaz, among others. In fact, the entire website is worth a quick scoot around, not the least because it's clutter-free and easy to navigate (other publishers should take note)...
Digital Photography School (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Ever needed a lens but have been unable to afford it? In this post Peter Carey explores how you can have them - by renting lenses. I admit it. I like to dream about owning many, many lenses. It seems I can always conjure up at least one photo to justify purchasing any given lens. But [...]
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... amongst them Gilgamesh - Joan London Eucalyptus - Murray Bail (me) My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey The Widow and the Hero - Thomas Keneally The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes and it was this last book, that finally gave us the perspective on our reading that we had been struggling to define. Then the debate really took off. First Novel last month equally enlightening with What Was Lost - Catherine...
reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... heartfelt responses from a whole array of other novelists about the book pre-publication including Peter Carey (" The Spare Room is a perfect novel"), Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Alberto Manguel, Diana Athill and Michel Faber, any one of whom I would respect as a judge of serious fiction more than all five of these judges put together. One has to be philosophical about these things...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia doctors Fred Hollows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia writers Peter Carey (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia artists Russell Drysdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia academics Barbara Thiering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia & businessmen William Knox D'Arcy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia yet few Australians even know but a...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... equestrian team.WANT IT? Running a ranch is expensive and a lot of work. Local actor and horseman Peter Carey finds it so intriguing that he is pitching an Equestrian Lifestyles TV show to cable and network stations featuring Crescent Ridge Farms in a video promo.To watch team penning, call 810-678-2597.If you have an idea, send it to
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... received "remarkable and heartfelt" feedback to the book from a host of other novelists including Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Diana Athill and Michel Faber – "anyone of whom I would respect as a judge of serious fiction more than all five of these judges put together."He added: "One has to be philosophical about these things and as a publisher you come to realise what a lottery these...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... received "remarkable and heartfelt" feedback to the book from a host of other novelists including Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Diana Athill and Michel Faber – "anyone of whom I would respect as a judge of serious fiction more than all five of these judges put together."He added: "One has to be philosophical about these things and as a publisher you come to realise what a lottery these...
Digital Photography School (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Today Peter Carey explores different photo storage options for when you are traveling. It’s very easy today to take more pictures in a single week long vacation than ever imagined possible ten years ago. For one thing, not many people had digital cameras ten years ago and those that did had a lot of [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie, has been named the best Booker Prize winner of all time.The Best of the Booker title was bestowed by public vote, conducted to mark the 40th anniversary of the literary award. Rushdie was always the favourite, chosen from a shortlist of six which included works by JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Pat Barker, Peter Carey and JG Farrell. Salman Rushdie,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... Coetzee, the first writer to win the prize twice.Also included was the second double-Booker winner Peter Carey, Pat Barker and JG Farrell, who won in 1973 with The Siege of Krishnapur , the year before Gordimer shared the prize with Stanley Middleton.More than 7,000 readers participated, with 37 per cent favouring Rushdie's book.Three Bookers for one work is impressive and confirms...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... J.M. Coetzee, whom bookies installed as second-favourite to win after Rushdie. Australian author Peter Carey was in the running for Oscar and Lucinda, which gave him the first of his two Booker prize wins in 1988. The Siege of Krishnapur, which won the prize for the late Liverpool-born author J.G. Farrell in 1973; The Ghost Road, by Yorkshire-born author Pat Barker, a winner in 1995;...
