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At Clunes itâs country versus town and everyone against Covid
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âStop the metro sneering, we hate that,â said writer Margaret Hickey. It was a common theme at the 2021 Clunes Booktown Festival last weekend: how come these know-all city slickers are barging in and writing about our lives in the bush?
The event, back after cancellation last year, was dubbed Turn the Page, but the dominant subject was rural writers and rural settings. Authors argued, as Rosalie Ham put it, that ârural people write the truth about the landâ. J. P. Pomare added: âItâs important we donât see rural stories told by city people.â
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Itâs 7pm on a weeknight and 13 blokes are talking raucously over beers at a Collingwood pub once frequented by standover man Mark Brandon âChopperâ Read.
Some wear black hoodies and scarves emblazoned with their logo â a tattoo parlour-style, circular image of a skull with a candle oozing over it.
Books can be tough: Shay Leighton, front right, at a Tough Guy Book Club meeting at Goldyâs Tavern, Collingwood.
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But this isnât an outlaw motorcycle club meeting.
Welcome to the Tough Guy Book Club, whose members are more likely to be discussing Ernest Hemingwayâs depiction of masculinity than terrorising neighbourhoods.
Always one move ahead: chess drama The Queenâs Gambit tops MPsâ summer binge list
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Read into this what you will, but an orphan with a single-minded drive to dominate the chess world is the summer entertainment of choice for many of our federal politicians.
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The Queenâs Gambit has won its way to the top of the cultural consumption list for MPs including Social Services Minister Anne Ruston, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, Liberal MP Katie Allen, Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh and Greens deputy leader Larissa Waters.
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