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Ronnie Scott Story Coming Up

  • May 31st, 2011
  • Posted in Interviews
  • By Ryan

Now that I’ve finally published the final part of my Wet Ink interview with Ronnie Scott, I’ll be republishing one of his short stories soon. It’s called ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, and is remarkable in the way eating an icecream on a bouncey castle is remarkable. [ READ MORE ]

Interview with Ronnie Scott: Part five

  • May 31st, 2011
  • Posted in Interviews
  • By Ryan

This idea of the ‘anthology dream’ – of publishing new writers alongside emerging writers in a coherent context – is more what I’m talking about when I ask about the Brow. Wet Ink does it too, and I understand at the Brow you avoid government funding because you want to publish smaller Australian writers alongside [ READ MORE ]

Bricks and Bullshit

  • May 13th, 2011
  • Posted in Bookshops
  • By Felice

Buying books from Waterstones is ideologically similar to buying organic items at Tesco – it’s better than some of the alternatives (ie: Amazon), but I can’t feel as smug as I might if I bought from an independent. Still, there’s so much doom and gloom in the industry news at the moment following the Red [ READ MORE ]

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