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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Best Australian Essays 2007
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Alive in Ant and Bee, Gillian Mears , extract autobiography (p. 1-15)
From Frogmore, Victoria, Helen Garner , single work essay (p. 16-25)
Fire Down Below, Dan Chiasson , single work criticism (p. 26-35)
In Fealty to a Professor, Anne Sedgley , single work biography (p. 36-42)
The Heart of Desire, John Armstrong , single work essay
John Armstrong argues that 'the modern grail, sexual happiness, is profoundly dehumanising'.(Meanjin)
 (p. 43-48)
The Ups, The Downs: My Life as a Biographer, Hazel Rowley , single work essay
Hazel Rowley sets out the skills required by a biographer and details her personal 'trajectory as a biographer'. She also exposes the impact of biographical writing on the writer.
 (p. 49-64)
Note: 'Publication Details' refers to ABR publication as 'an earlier version'. (p.348)
Like Love in a Marriage, Anna Goldsworthy , single work essay (p. 65-77)
In Shiraz, Don Walker , extract prose travel (p. 81-97)
Note: From a longer account of a trip to Iran. (p.97)
Blow-Ins on the Cold Desert Wind, Kim Mahood , single work essay
Kim Mahood negotiates the place of a white Australian who moves 'on a regular basis between predominantly white urban Australia and predominantly black remote Australia'.
 (p. 98-111)
Many Me, Katharine Rossmanith , single work essay (p. 122-128)
Lost in the Woods, Inga Clendinnen , single work essay (p. 172-181)
The Innocence Manoeuvre, Anna Funder , single work essay (p. 182-188)
Born in the GDR: An Inside Account, Gert Reifarth , single work essay

Gert Reifarth grew up in East Germany. In this essay, first published in Meanjin, he reflects on life behind the Iron Curtain and the tactics he used to circumvent government control. At one point, he sends coded letters to friends in the west so that they will smuggle in a copy of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. As an adult now living in Melbourne, he discusses his feelings about the past and future of the former GDR.

 (p. 189-198)
Being There : The Strange History of Manning Clark, Mark McKenna , extract biography (p. 199-226)
Note: No subtitle.
Scale by Scale, Susan Hampton , single work essay (p. 336-346)
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