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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... February 2016 of Sydney Review of Books est. 2013 Sydney Review of Books
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Being Genius Together, Catriona Menzies-Pike , single work essay
In the Swash Zone, Nicholas Jose , single work review
— Review of Harriet Chandler Moya Costello , 2005 single work novella ;

'Harriet Chandler didn’t make it onto the list of best novels of 2015 as far as I know. That may be because it was published in 2014, when it didn’t make the list either, or because its author, Moya Costello, calls it a ‘novella’, in her own redefinition of the term as a short, intense mix of ‘prose poem and prose fiction’, rather than a novel as such. At any rate, its appearance escaped notice, like some shy bush animal. The closest I can find to a reference in the mainstream media is Xu Qin’s piece in Shanghai Daily, ‘Profile of an inspiring woman’. Harriet Chandler is the first book from Short Odds Publications, another avatar of the author, whose act of self-publishing may also have got in the way. As Anna Couani explains, Costello, like herself, was ‘in the Sydney Women Writers’ Workshop (aka The No Regrets Group) in the 70’s and 80’s … [and] shared the feminist values of the group’ which included, in Costello’s words, ‘a radical critique of the industry context of their creative work’. Taking the means of production and dissemination into your own hands through self-publication is a logical extension of this spirit in technologically as well as politically changed times. It throws a spanner into the established system of book marketing and promotional recognition. The Prime Minister’s Literary Award, for example, makes it explicit that ‘self-published books are not eligible’, even if to self-publish successfully requires a high degree of editorial, design and book-producing skills, collaboratively integrated, as well as the writing talent.' (Introduction)

Laconic Stance Drive, Michael Farrell , single work review
— Review of Hows Its : The "C.S.W." Cricket Score Book Nick Whittock , 2014 selected work poetry ;
What to Leave Out, Sophia Barnes , single work review
— Review of Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska , 2015 single work autobiography ; Eat First, Talk Later : A Memoir of Food, Family and Home Beth Yahp , 2015 single work biography ; The Women's Pages Debra Adelaide , 2015 single work novel ;
How to Sell a Book, Craig Munro , single work
'There is at least a forty-year history of reports into the Australian book industry, starting with that of the Australian Book Trade Working Party in 1975. Has everything gone to pot since then? Not quite. New research from Macquarie University shows that local publishers are adapting to a rapidly changing marketplace for books, writes, Craig Munro'
Randolph Stow's Trobriand Islands, Suzanne Falkiner , single work essay
'‘Embarking on a biography of Randolph Stow, an introspective author widely thought to be a recluse in his later years, had not been easy at the best of times, but writing about his time in New Guinea in 1959 was troubling on several levels: not least because during his last months there he had experienced a mental and physical breakdown that brought him close to death.’ Suzanne Falkiner travels to the Trobriand Islands in pursuit of Randolph Stow. '
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