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'I have never been one to refuse a literary lunch. ‘A man’s got to eat,’ as Brian Kiernan puts it. Though when I was publishing Brian’s Studies in Australian Literary History he did complain that I was the most interventionist editor he had ever known, less for my editorial suggestions, of which there were few, but for my habit of calling him up and suggesting lunch. Not that he ever seemed to refuse lunch in my recollection, but it did delay the book a bit. Many a meal we have shared with visiting celebrities and literary editors fast approaching their use-by date. The wit, the repartee, the exchange of insights and the capping of each other’s quotations, the progressively heated discussions leading to confrontation, misunderstanding, and recrimination.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine no. 164 November 2006 Z1346745 2006 periodical issue 2006 pg. 3, 30
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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. 100-103
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