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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Some Furniture
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    y separately published work icon Kitchen Table Memoirs Kitchen Table Memoirs : Shared Stories from Australian Writers Nick Richardson (editor), Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 Z1910783 2013 anthology biography autobiography 'We all have kitchen tables. And most of us have memories of events, moments, and emotions associated with the kitchen table. This anthology is about those moments around the kitchen table that have stayed with us. The power of the idea is its universality. It provides contributors with the opportunity to be nostalgic, but also to celebrate the table's ever-present and hitherto unremarked-upon role in some of the key moments of their lives. Many of the pieces will be focused on food-related memories and in those cases there will be a recipe associated with that recollection. Some recipes come from chefs and others simply from a family evening meal -- scribbled on a scrap paper or handed down through the generations. Other contributions won't feature a recipe because their kitchen table memories show the kitchen table in a different role: a cubby for the kids, a shelter from the storms outside, a stage for performance, and even as a treatment table for an injured child. Contributors include: Helen Garner, Dan Stock, Denise Scott, Jean Kittson, Valli Little, John Tully, Tony Wilson, Elizabeth Cashen, Barbara Santich, Martin Brown, Jessica Adams, Jane Caro, Stefano De Pieri, Annabel Langbein and many more. A percentage of the proceeds of this book will be donated to Foodbank, Australia's largest hunger relief agency that helps save wasted food from supermarkets, grocers and restaurants for the nation's hungry.' (Publisher's blurb)
    Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013
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    y separately published work icon Everywhere I Look Helen Garner , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2016 9174059 2016 selected work essay

    'Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the linking passages I’ve written are leading me up a garden path, or are sentimental, or violate some unarticulated moral and technical code I’ve signed up to and feel trapped in or obliged to. The sheer bloody labour of writing. No one but another writer understands it—the heaving about of great boulders into a stable arrangement so that you can bound up them and plant your little flag at the very top.

    'Spanning fifteen years of work, Helen Garner’s Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments—sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and laughter. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. 'Everywhere I Look includes Garner’s famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life. ' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2016
    pg. 7-10
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  • Ascot Vale, Essendon area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
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