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Review: Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers by Helen Vines (Monash University Publishing)
When your subject is a mid-century, gender-ambiguous author who lived under other names and wasn’t always honest about basic points of identification, writing a biography is a huge challenge. But Helen Vines’ Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers builds a substantial picture of this elusive author. Eve (left) and June Langley, 1920s. Courtesy of Monash University Publishing
I first came to Langley’s work through her 1940 poem Native-Born as part of my research on dead kangaroos in Australian literature.
Langley had been absent from my educational curriculum, dominated by her male contemporaries Kenneth Slessor, Nevil Shute and the school-boy squabbles of the Ern Malley affair and the more influential Patrick White and Randolph Stow. This wasn’t unusual in the 80s and 90s. Now, it is hard to justify any more than a sprinkling of them in an English course.
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If you thought publishing was a sedate business, think again. Craig Munro’s lively account, Literary Lion Tamers, is full of eccentric characters, entrepreneurial derring-do, financial ruin, creative brilliance, emotional breakdown, obsession, intrigue, imprisonment and untimely death.
When A.G. Stephens was editor of the Bulletin Company’s book list around the turn of the 20th century, for example, his overworked boss J.F. Archibald, editor of
The Bulletin, suffered a manic episode. The tragicomic symptom of his illness was that he suddenly began paying contributors far above the usual rate for their poetry and ended up in Callan Park Asylum.
A Comedian Crashes Your Pad Back on the road again and heading to Savannah, Georgia
BriefingWire.com, 3/09/2021 - Chicago, IL â March 9, 2021. Following a successful and hilarious journey through Kenosha, Wisconsin, standup comedian and travel host Greg Schwem and his crew head to Savannah, Georgia for another pad crashing episode featuring a lively mix of entertainment, guest interviews, and hidden treasures of home-sharing.
As a journalist and professional corporate comedian, Greg s background led to the creation of A COMEDIAN CRASHES YOUR PAD. The show offers a hilarious and insightful look at the unique people who open their equally unique properties to strangers. Greg states, I walked away from a successful career as a television journalist to make people laugh for a living. But I quickly realized the job of a standup comedian is more than just telling jokes onstage. It s about observing, and listening to people, and tr