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'Whenever people gather together, they tell each other stories. As anecdote, gossip or reminiscence, stories arise naturally in human communication. And that is what is so appealing about the short story: its naturalness, its being a part of timeless human experience. There is no need to be defensive about writing or reading a story. Stories are basic to our existence and are beyond justification. Our understanding of the world of public and private events is expressed in the stories of history and case history. Our futures are projected in war-game scenario stories no less bizarre than our own fantasies and reveries. The media bombard us with news stories and storylines and the compressed narratives of advertising.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 1-7
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