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A column canvassing current literary news including a report on ABR's move from its premises in Bridge Rd, Richmond to the newly renovated J. H. Boyd Girls' High School site, located in Melbourne's Southbank precinct. 'Advances' also notes the death of Professor Bruce Bennett, an ABR patron.
Richard Haese outlines errors (in relation to the Oz obscenity trials) committed by Peter Hill in Hill's review of Haese's Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown and the Australian Avant-Garde 1953-1997.
Leigh Swinbourne expresses his concern at Robert Dessaix's 'invention' of a major figure in Dessaix's Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev. Dessaix had discussed his narrative 'invention' in the 2011 Seymour Lecture, 'Pushing against the Dark'.