Friday 14 February 2014

Matt's update Friday, 14 February 2014




Bought USB extension cable.

Book purchases
  • Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
  • Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds, Lyndall Gordon, 2010
  • The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin (thanks to Hannah Forsyth for the lead) – edition of 1999, original German first published in 1982.
  • A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel (for February Book Chat Oz), 1992
Book Chat Oz
  • February episode is to cover Simon Schama’s 1989 Citizens and Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety
  • Both books are about the French Revolution
  • Schama’s book is a history book
  • Mantel’s book is an historical novel
  • Will go live at the end of the month
Made contribution to William Yang: Friends of Dorothy video through Pozible campaign.

Poems
  • ‘Giants’ (posted 30 Jan) looks at the anxiety that the weather can cause in a sub tropical location. 
  • ‘Thoughts of a friend of Geoffrey Zygier’ (posted 10 Feb) takes a look at the father of the Australian who died in 2010 while in the custody of the Israeli authorities.

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