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'As with so many things young John Keats wrote, his description of the innermost psyche as 'an internal spangly gloom' is the finest we may get In this region you will spend one or more years if you decide to write your autobiography. By autobiography I mean what the dictionary means—the written history of the life of some person. I want to be clear about this because the word, from publishers' point of view, has become imprecise and gaseous. The string of anecdotes, the axe-grinding exercise, the regrettable whinge motivated by revenge—these will certainly sell if' written by a sufficiently famous or powerful individual. For we arc insatiably nosy about others' private lives. Horses and chimps don't appear to care in the least, so for us this striking inquisitiveness is probably a learning process, and so has evolutionary value.'   (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Author vol. 50 no. 2 2018 15356073 2018 periodical issue

    'In October 1962, the inaugural meeting of the proposed Society of Authors was held, to end the present feudal state of the Australian writer' and address the issues of 'poor and variable anthology fees, the need for standard contracts and the position regarding copyright' (Dal Stivens. foundation president). Broadside, the first journal of the Australian Society of Authors, began in September 1963 as a 'medium of information and opinion', and fulfilled that role until the last edition was published in July 1968 to make way for the launch of The Australian Author in 1969. This magazine was never intended as a literary puma\ and, as a result, did not meet the funding criteria of the time. Rather, its purpose was to 'concentrate attention on the defence of literary property—the writer's business (Stephany Steggall, Status and Sugar, 2013), which is exactly what it did for the next 50 years. ' (Publication summary)
     

    2018
    pg. 72-74
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