Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 With Garner, Absence Imparts the Essence
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'In her 1996 essay 'The Art of the Dumb Question', Helen Garner recalls bragging to friend Tim Winton that she had written a 200-word 'syntact­ically perfect sentence'. 'He scorched me with a surfer’s stare,' she writes, 'and said, ‘I couldn’t care less about that sort of shit’.' It’s an illuminating anecdote about the differ­ent approaches taken by two of our great writers.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 11 November 2017 12258539 2017 newspaper issue 2017 pg. 20 Section: Review
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