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Australia in Three Books : I, Memoir single work review

Author:agent Amy Gray

Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Australia in Three Books : I, Memoir

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'I have a story. It will tell you something about me. You may already know me from That Thing or That Event, which I'm now using as a return to writing. That thing about me? It's sad. I will try to connect it to a broader social statement, perhaps something trite that can be laid over a nice pastel sunset for your grid, but mainly the only thing new about it is the chance to squint into another person's life before you find the next hit.' (Publication abstract)

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y Meanjin vol. 82 no. 4 December 2023 27352506 2023 periodical issue Abstract
'Art and fiction is our focus this season: let’s lift our gaze, feed our spirits and gather our strengths.

'Because this year has tested us. It has opened our eyes, it has broken our hearts and it has exhausted us. Truth and lie, courage and cowardice, pride and shame. And the new lows we have seen this year, so far beneath shame that we shudder to comprehend... Systematically lying for deliberately cruel impact, and then crowing with impunity. The horrors of wars with genocidal intent. The violence of unrelenting colonisation.' (Editorial introduction)
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