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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Handbag Studio, Thomas Keneally , single work essay
The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper , single work essay
The One Day, David Malouf , single work essay

''Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from … One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not write about it.'

'In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this 'one day' when Australians stop to reflect on endurance, service and the folly of war. He shows how what was once history has now passed into legend, and how we have found in Anzac Day 'a truly national occasion.'' (Publication summary)

A City Obsessed, John Birmingham , single work essay
Arrayed for the Bridal The Dress, Helen Garner , single work essay
Big Louis, Inga Clendinnen , single work essay
On Becoming a Mormon for a While and Other Madnesses Diary, M. J. Hyland , single work autobiography
Patrick White : The Final Chapter, David Marr , single work criticism
In this wide ranging essay, David Marr writes of the final years and the deaths of Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris and the survival of 32 boxes of White's letters, notebooks and manuscripts now held at the National Library of Australia. Marr discusses the White papers including drafts and fragments of unpublished novels in manuscript specifically one known as 'The Hanging Garden'. He recounts White's writing from the early 1980s of 'no more big novels, but speeches, plays and shorter prose works' and also discusses his own writing of White's biography as well as an interesting aside on a collection sent to the National Library by artist and set-designer, Desmond Digby, which includes a series of index cards on which Digby noted his telephone conversations with White.
The Great Generation of Australian Policy, Clive James , single work essay
Arthur Boyd: a Life, Barry Humphries , single work essay
The First Sense, Robyn Davidson , single work autobiography
Into a Liquid Ether, Christos Tsiolkas , single work essay
Unforgiven, Craig Sherborne , single work autobiography
"What're Yer Lookin' at Yer Fuckin' Dog?" : Violence and Fear on Zizek's Post-polictical Neighbourhood, Kevin Brophy , single work essay
Bradman the Liberator, Frank Devine , single work essay
The relationship between Australia and England was changed through cricket. '...Bradman's cricketing duel with England...helped spare Australians undue angst when the time came...for the two countries to go their separate ways in the world.' (p.18)
Late Starter Starting Too Late, Jessica Anderson , single work autobiography
From the Red Country, Alan Frost , single work essay
How We Cheated Flames of Death, Gary Hughes , single work essay
The Inferno, Christina Kenneally , single work essay
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, J. M. Coetzee , single work essay short story

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

A Test for a Decade's Best Diane Stubbings , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 April 2011; (p. 19)

— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay ; The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology short story
On the National Interest Matthew Lamb , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 -17 April 2011; (p. 22)

— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay
On the National Interest Matthew Lamb , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 -17 April 2011; (p. 22)

— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay
A Test for a Decade's Best Diane Stubbings , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 April 2011; (p. 19)

— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay ; The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology short story
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