Tag Archives: book reviewing
Books
‘The fights most worth having are the ones you won’t win’: The continuing debate on Australian literary reviewing
The pleasure of, and also the trouble with, writing something about book reviewing like ‘Feeding The Hand That Bites’ is that you become a perceived sympathetic ear to everyone’s literary horror story. Since my article appeared in the first edition of Kill Your Darlings, I have been … Read more
Events
‘We tend to genuflect to writing’: Kill Your Darlings’ reviewing panel
On Wednesday night, for our ‘Feeding the Hand that Bites’ panel, Issue One Contributors Gideon Haigh and Anthony Morris, Kill Your Darlings Editor Rebecca Starford and Associate Editor Jo Case held forth on reviewing culture in Australia. Among the issues discussed were the distinction between reviewing and criticism, … Read more
