It was unfortunate that this Meet-the-Author event coincided with school and university holidays, not to mention a cold Canberra evening, resulting in a small turnout, because the conversation spoke particularly to the career and life challenges facing millennials and Gen Z. This is not to say that it didn't also speak to older generations, because … Continue reading Jessy Wu in conversation with Jasper Lindell
Campus novels
Wallace Stegner, Crossing to safety (Review)
Nearly two decades ago, I read Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose. I loved it. Indeed, for many years I had the following quote from it on my work whiteboard: "Civilisations grow by agreements and accommodations and accretions, not by repudiations". Not just civilisations, I thought, but marriages, teams, organisations. I like the way this man thinks. … Continue reading Wallace Stegner, Crossing to safety (Review)
Whispering Gums 