Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Loitering with Intent : Reflections on the Demise of the 'Dilettante'
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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 188 February-March 1997 Z597407 1997 periodical issue 1997 pg. 36-40
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    y separately published work icon Seams of Light : Best Antipodean Essays : A Selection Morag Fraser (editor), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1998 Z180349 1998 anthology prose criticism biography St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1998 pg. 7-18
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    y separately published work icon (And So Forth) Robert Dessaix , Sydney : Macmillan , 1998 Z349426 1998 selected work short story prose criticism biography

    'In this award-winning selection of his short fiction, essays and journalism from the last decade, Robert Dessaix offers insights into the many selves at play behind the mask of well-known broadcaster and author of "Night Letters". Traveller, thinker, linguist, and self-confessed dilettante, Dessaix muses in these pieces on an astonishing array of subjects from Orientalism to Aboriginal spirituality, from the art of translation to the nature of creativity, from covetousness to gay fiction, from Albanian tourism to adoption and the suburban family.Underlying these finely nuanced conversations with the reader is a passion for language and for finding ways to write with simplicity about intricate yet vital things–intimacy, mortality, time, love.

    '"(and so forth)" was a bestseller when first published in hardback in 1998, and won the Colin Roderick Award for 1999 for the best Australian book of 1998. This paperback edition includes the 8-page colour section.'(Publication summary) 

    Sydney : Macmillan , 1998
    pg. 321-336

Works about this Work

Upping the Dilettanti Scrutator , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Republican , 14 March no. [1] 1997; (p. 28)

— Review of Loitering with Intent : Reflections on the Demise of the 'Dilettante' Robert Dessaix , 1997 single work prose
Upping the Dilettanti Scrutator , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Republican , 14 March no. [1] 1997; (p. 28)

— Review of Loitering with Intent : Reflections on the Demise of the 'Dilettante' Robert Dessaix , 1997 single work prose
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