The Face: Anita Amirrezvani
WHEN Anita Amirrezvani gives speeches about her acclaimed debut novel, The Blood of Flowers, she tells her audiences: “I was born in the axis of evil and raised by the Great Satan.”
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Victorian upside for Underbelly
NINE Network executives, still choking on the banning of television crime drama Underbelly in Victoria, can only look on enviously as the tie-in book flies off the shelves there. Underbelly cannot be screened in Victoria because of a court ruling that it could influence a gangland murder trial. Yet the book Underbelly: The Gangland War, by crime reporting duo John Silvester and Andrew Rule, is available nationally and selling like hotcakes. One month after its mid-January release, it went into a third print run.
Anger at report into child sex
UNDERAGE sex can be a positive experience that makes many prostitutes “more comfortable and assertive” with their sexuality, according to a new book that draws on taxpayer-funded research.
Indigenous violence a bad dreaming, says playwright
INDIGENOUS communities must disown the violent aspects of their traditional culture or face “cultural oblivion,” warns the prominent playwright and screenwriter, Louis Nowra.
Malouf presses for novel reprints
IT is a “national disgrace” that so many Australian novels, from classics to recent Miles Franklin prize-winners, are out of print, says eminent novelist David Malouf.
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