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  1. It would be 'a good thing' if children went to handwriting schools ... Umberto Eco on the lost art of handwriting, http://tinyurl.com/nh228b
  2. Survey finds 'One hundred years of solitude' is the book that's shaped world literature over the past 25 years http://tinyurl.com/yd86jmr
  3. Review of J.M. Coetzee's SUMMERTIME (by @ReadingsBooks managing director Mark Rubbo) at http://bit.ly/6P2fm (RT @AustLiterature -- thanks)
  4. RT @RadioNational Listening now to Artworks: "poet Robert Gray takes us on a lyrical journey into his life, influences & imagination"
  5. Turning 180-degrees to face Spring: how do the tiny circles of flat blossom pinned to the pavement by all the rain escape into the glass air
  6. It all certainly makes a change from reading "Web redesign: Workflow that works" -- though that's pretty good if you're a web-head.
  7. Reading "Too soon old, too late smart". The first gem: If the map doesn't match the ground, the map is wrong. That book + Robyn's book = !!
  8. Pete Hay's launch speech for Robyn Mathison's first poetry book (she's 70, and a tireless worker for others) What an affirmation, the crowd!
  9. Short story writer Geoff Dean at 80-something has advanced into cyberspace with his short stories at http://geoffreydean.blogspo...
  10. RT @PressPresscomau: Ratio of male to female authors in Australian literary magazines http://twitthis.com/zui3al
  11. An excellent essay by Alice Sebold on literary awards, in The Atlantic Monthly: http://bit.ly/4tLCH (RT @LindsAyresTodd)
  12. Ever wondered about the origins of the phrase, 'black dog', as epitomising depression? http://www.blackdoginstitut...
  13. Short story writer Geoff Dean takes to cyberspace "I find now it takes too long to publish a story in the conventional way http://tr.im/w3co
  14. Listening to Roscoe Mitchell and The Transatlantic Art Ensemble! If only more poetry were like that. Or is it and I just haven't read it?
  15. Are there any poetry readings in Sydney on Sunday night, Mon. or Tues? Am visiting and would love to go to something while I can.
  16. ABC Radio National PM 3 July: Russian Symphony Orchestra records Tasmanian composer, Matthew Dewey's 1st symphony: http://tr.im/qQpF
  17. Poet John Kinsella has turned his back on the online world. And not because he's a ludite. ABC FutureTense podcast at: http://tr.im/pQrb
  18. John Freeman, acting editor of 'Granta' magazine, on the passion for print: http://bit.ly/I431v
  19. Harold Bloom: "Pynchon has the same relation to fiction that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry ..." http://bit.ly/1DcS5 (RT @kjones44)
  20. I can spell just not easily in 140 characters: so please read, Librettist!