Thanks, Max, I do wish we could know the name of the visiting Wise Man who
said, "You should be home writing". A man with studied disdain for The
Grind, ya gotta love him---as well as his poor foot that he prolly shot
every (rare) time he got a speaking gig.
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:00 PM
Subject: Adelaide appointments
> From The Australian, 30 April
>
> [Brian] Castro [appointed to chair] wishes there had been creative writing
> programs back in 1972 when he first started to try to shape words into
> some
> literary form. He studied English lit in the conventional way at the
> University of Sydney. "I think we had one writer who came to (talk to) us
> and he said: 'You should be home writing'," Castro says.
>
> His latest book, The Bath Fugues, is due out in October.
>
> Sydney poet Jill Jones will join Castro at Adelaide as a senior lecturer,
> thereby strengthening the creative writing program.
>
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