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Title Pardon me for mentioning ... : unpublished letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald / edited by Alex Kaplan, Julie Lewis and Catharine Munro
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013
©2013

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 MELB  827.008409355 L6731/P  DUE 02-09-23
Description xviii, 179 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: We should be so lucky -- Gender wars -- The way we live now... -- Shall we pray -- Grand plans -- The Canberra circus -- Crimes against the English language -- Boots, Bingle and B.O. -- Laughing all the way to climate doom -- Tale of two cities -- Friends and neighbours -- Of moguls and scribblers
Summary Writers of letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority is in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in a sheath that is crackling dry. They are possessed of good sense and a wicked sense of humour. No topic is off limits. Yet hundreds of offerings bite the dust every day. Some are too late. Too vulgar. Too confessional. Some writers are victims of their own success and are at risk of overexposure. Others don't meet the Herald's stringent verification rules. Others are delightfully (but unprintably) kooky. All are kept. From Tony Abbott's dress-ups to Julia Gillard's karate chop, Judith Lucy's sex life and the perils of proposing to your pet, the vault is opened and our writers' wit, insight and imagination are unleashed
Analysis Australian
Notes Record machine-generated from publisher information
Copyright in the introduction © Alex Kaplan, Julie Lewis and Catharine Munro 2013
Copyright in the letters remains with the author
Copyright in the volume © Allen & Unwin 2013
Subject Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
Sydney Morning Herald
SUBJECT Age (Melbourne, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50081613
Age, The, (Melbourne, Vic.) [newspaper]
Sydney morning herald. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50082000
Sydney Morning Herald [newspaper]
Subject Australian newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
Australian poetry.
Letters to the editor -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Letters to the editor -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
Letters to the editor -- Australia.
Letters to the editor -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Australian wit and humor.
Author Kaplan, Alex, editor
Lewis, Julie, editor
Munro, Catharine, editor
Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
Sydney Morning Herald
LC no. 2013481713
ISBN 9781742379432 (hardback)
Other Titles Unpublished letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
OTHER TI Age (Melbourne, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50081613
Sydney morning herald. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50082000