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Pardon me for mentioning . . .: Unpublished Letters from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Author(s): Alex Kaplan (Editor), Julie Lewis (Editor), Catharine Munro (Editor)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 179 pages
- ISBN-10: 1742379435
- ISBN-13: 9781742379432
Book Description
Writers of letters to the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers, and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority are in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in a sheath that is crackling dry. They are possessed of good sense and a wicked sense of humor. No topic is off limits. Yet hundreds of offerings bite the dust every day. Some are too late. Too vulgar. Too confessional. Some writers are victims of their own success and are at risk of overexposure. Others don’t meet the Herald‘s stringent verification rules. Others are delightfully (but unprintably) kooky. All are kept. From Tony Abbott’s dress-ups to Julia Gillard’s karate chop, Judith Lucy’s sex life, and the perils of proposing to your pet, the vault is opened and our writers’ wit, insight, and imagination are unleashed.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Alex Kaplan has been an Age journalist for twelve years. Julie Lewis has been a journalist for twenty years. She has co-edited the Letters page of The Sydney Morning Herald for two years. Catharine Munro reported for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun Herald, and The Age. She spent long periods based in Darwin, Dili, Denpasar, and Jakarta as the correspondent for AAP. Editing the Letters page in 2011 and 2012 revealed that the Herald‘s best writers are often volunteers.
