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What happens when an Australian medical research institute “throw[s] a creative writer into the mix”?
Emily Maguire’s latest novel emerged out of a $100,000 fellowship from the University of Sydney Charles Perkins Centre. The centre focuses on lifestyle diseases: the “things we give ourselves”, as Maguire put it, during a thought-provoking discussion of her new book, Love Objects, at Guardian Australia’s monthly Zoom book club on Friday.
The fellowship offered Maguire the opportunity to explore a character that had been “haunting” her for over a decade. The protagonist of Love Objects, Nic, has so much stuff in her house it almost literally kills her.
Guardian Australiaâs book club: join Emily Maguire to discuss hoarding, class and consent
In Maguireâs novel Love Objects, two women are embroiled in two different crises: one, a university sex scandal; the other, a diagnosis. Sheâll discuss how both intersect with class in a conversation with Lucy Clark â and with you
Emily Maguire and Lucy Clark will be discussing Love Objects and its themes at Guardian Australiaâs interactive book club on Friday 30 April. Composite: Sarah Wilson
Emily Maguire and Lucy Clark will be discussing Love Objects and its themes at Guardian Australiaâs interactive book club on Friday 30 April. Composite: Sarah Wilson
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Presently serving as the Vice President of Ticket Sales and Service for the Denver Nuggets, Emily Maguire started with Kroenke Sports and Entertainment in 2008 and has been with the company for 12+ years.
Maguire grew up in Vermont and attended her home state s University, majoring in Finance and Marketing. She is currently continuing her education with evening classes at Harvard Extension School, working toward a Graduate Certificate in Corporate Finance.
During her decade-long service to KSE, Maguire has been fortunate to receive many internal promotions starting with the company as an inside sales representative and working her way up through the ranks of the ticket sales offices for both the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Rapids.
âI didnât know what to do nextâ: the story behind the book of the moment
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There was a time when Meg Mason visited the Art Gallery of NSWâs cafe so often the waiters assumed she worked at the institution and implored her to take advantage of the employee discount.
But enough time has passed from the long days Mason spent in the galleryâs research library writing her novel
Sorrow and Bliss, that itâs a lingering ibis who seems most familiar with her when we meet for lunch in the cafeâs sunny courtyard.