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y separately published work icon One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 single work   diary  
Is part of Helen Garner : Diaries Helen Garner , 2019 series - author diary (number 2 in series)
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'Helen Garner’s second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work.

'With devastating honesty, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another—how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both thrilling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work.'

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  • Epigraph : 'But evidently I had not understood enough, or rather, as I was slowly finding out, everything that one thinks one understands has to be understood over and over again, in its different aspects, each time with the same new shock of discovery.' - Marion Milner, An Experiment in Leisure

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2020 .
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      Extent: 297p.p.
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      • Published 3 November 2020.
      ISBN: 9781922330277 (hbk), 9781925923704 (ebk)
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y separately published work icon Yellow Notebook : Diaries Volume I, 1978-1986 Helen Garner , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2019 17065992 2019 single work diary

'HELEN Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard.

'Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers.

'Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, in this elegant hardback edition, spans about a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip. It will delight Garner fans and those new to her work alike.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
Helen Garner: 'Is There Hope for Women and Men?' Helen Garner , 2020 single work extract
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 November 2020; 'In this extract from her 1987 diary, Helen Garner chronicles a tumultuous time in her life, including the beginning of an all-consuming affair'
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y separately published work icon Lisa Gorton on Helen Garner's Third Volume of Diaries Lisa Gorton , Peter Rose (presenter), 2022 23749093 2022 single work podcast

'‘I would like to write about dominance, revulsion, separation, the horrible struggles between people who love each other,’ wrote Helen Garner, foreshadowing How to End a Story, the final instalment of her published diaries, following Yellow Notebook (2019) and One Day I’ll Remember This (2020). While the first two volumes spanned eight years apiece, How to End a Story spans only three. Starting in 1995, shortly after the release of Garner’s The First Stone, it details the dissolution of her marriage to another writer, V. As Lisa Gorton notes, this volume differs from its precursors both in tone and focus: ‘This one is as compelling as a detective story. This one is edited with the sense of an ending.’ (Production summary)
Burning Shame, Decolonizing (His)tory, and Writing Illness and Disability : The Year in Australia Kylie Cardell , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biography : An Interdisciplinary Quarterly , vol. 44 no. 1 2021; (p. 13-19)

'In November 2020, I am on my couch in Adelaide while Helen Garner, from an airy study in her home city of Melbourne, adjusts her camera. In the Adelaide Hills, from Matilda Bookshop, Molly Murn leans in and asks, "Can you hear me, Helen?"

'This is 2020. This is how we book launch.' (Introduction) 
Practical Circumstance Moya Costello , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary
A Hard Nut in the Centre Susan Lever , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2020;
— Review of Yellow Notebook : Diaries Volume I, 1978-1986 Helen Garner , 2019 single work diary ; One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary 'A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries'
Painter’s Eye and a Poet’s Ear Peter Craven , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 November 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary

'Helen Garner’s diaries have always been some kind of overriding preoccupation for this writer who breaks down the barrier between fiction and nonfiction. Forty years ago her detractors declared of Monkey Grip, arguably the most game-changing novel in Australian history, that it was simply her diaries regurgitated and dressed up as art.' (Introduction)
The Calling to Write : The Latest Volume of Helen Garner's Diaries Nicholas Jose , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary

'‘Unerring muse that makes the casual perfect’: Robert Lowell’s compliment to his friend Elizabeth Bishop comes to mind as I read Helen Garner. She is another artist who reveres the casual for its power to disrupt and illuminate. Nothing is ever really casual for her, but rather becomes part of a perfection that she resists at the same time. The ordinary in these diaries – the daily, the diurnal, the stumbled-upon, the breathing in and out – is turned into something else through the writer’s extraordinary craft.' (Introduction)
Painter’s Eye and a Poet’s Ear Peter Craven , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 November 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary

'Helen Garner’s diaries have always been some kind of overriding preoccupation for this writer who breaks down the barrier between fiction and nonfiction. Forty years ago her detractors declared of Monkey Grip, arguably the most game-changing novel in Australian history, that it was simply her diaries regurgitated and dressed up as art.' (Introduction)
Practical Circumstance Moya Costello , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary
A Hard Nut in the Centre Susan Lever , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2020;
— Review of Yellow Notebook : Diaries Volume I, 1978-1986 Helen Garner , 2019 single work diary ; One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 Helen Garner , 2020 single work diary 'A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries'
Guardian Australia Book Club: Join Helen Garner to Talk About Writing, Life, and Releasing Her Diaries Michael Williams , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 November 2020; 'Garner’s latest collection tracks a tumultuous time, beginning with a love affair and ending in controversy. In partnership with Sydney writers’ festival, she’ll be discussing One Day I’ll Remember This with Michael Williams – and with you'
y separately published work icon Lisa Gorton on Helen Garner's Third Volume of Diaries Lisa Gorton , Peter Rose (presenter), 2022 23749093 2022 single work podcast

'‘I would like to write about dominance, revulsion, separation, the horrible struggles between people who love each other,’ wrote Helen Garner, foreshadowing How to End a Story, the final instalment of her published diaries, following Yellow Notebook (2019) and One Day I’ll Remember This (2020). While the first two volumes spanned eight years apiece, How to End a Story spans only three. Starting in 1995, shortly after the release of Garner’s The First Stone, it details the dissolution of her marriage to another writer, V. As Lisa Gorton notes, this volume differs from its precursors both in tone and focus: ‘This one is as compelling as a detective story. This one is edited with the sense of an ending.’ (Production summary)
Burning Shame, Decolonizing (His)tory, and Writing Illness and Disability : The Year in Australia Kylie Cardell , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biography : An Interdisciplinary Quarterly , vol. 44 no. 1 2021; (p. 13-19)

'In November 2020, I am on my couch in Adelaide while Helen Garner, from an airy study in her home city of Melbourne, adjusts her camera. In the Adelaide Hills, from Matilda Bookshop, Molly Murn leans in and asks, "Can you hear me, Helen?"

'This is 2020. This is how we book launch.' (Introduction) 
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