A column canvassing current literary news including reports on Matt Rubinstein's win in the 2012 Calibre Prize, and on the disquiet caused by Fairfax's decision to 'remove its books editor at the
Canberra Times and to rely on literary reviews and commentaries emanating from Fairfax's two main broadsheets, the
Age and the
Sydney Morning Herald.
'Advances' also notes the deaths of Peter Steele, Rosemary Dobson and Robert Hughes.