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This column canvasses current literary news including brief reports on the awarding of a honorary doctor of letters by the University of Technology, Sydney, to J. M. Coetzee, and the announcement of a new writer-in-residence program, also at the University of Technology, Sydney. In addition, Susan Wyndham mentions the delay in publication of Brian Dibble's biography, Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley.