ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

Well, the MWF program is up and interstate ANZLL members are already planning which book to read on the plane down here to Melbourne!

Which events are we going to?

Sat Aug 22

• 10.00 am The Lost Mother (Carol)
• 10.00 am Spotlight on Andrea Goldsmith (Lisa & Tim)
• 11.30 am Oranges are the Only Fruit (Lisa)
• 1.00 pm  Elizabeth Jolley lecture (Lisa, Carol)
• 2.30 pm Visions of the City (Lisa)
• 6.00 pm Big Ideas: Does the End Justify the Means (Lisa & Tim)
• 8.00 pm D-Day with Antony Beevor (Lisa & Tim)

Sun Aug 23

• 11.30 am Finding Meaning in the Media (Lisa)
• 1.00 pm Anthony Beever and Les Carlyon (Lisa)

Fri Aug 28

• 10.00 am History’s Long Shadow (Carol, Sally, Kate, Cathy & Sallie – Cathy’s mum)
• 11.30 am Morrison, the Heiress, the Novelist and the Historian (Carol, Sally)
• 2.30 pm The Art of Conversation (Sally)
• 4.00 pm  M J Hyland in Conversation (Chris, Kate, Cathy & Sallie – Cathy’s mum)
• 4.00 pm Rock Memoirs (Sally)
• 5.30 pm Everyday Hero (Sally)

 7.45 PM ANZLL WELCOME TO MELBOURNE DINNER at TUTTO BENE  (Mid Level Southgate).  Drinks at the bar from 7.00pm onwards.

Attending (12 confirmed): Chris, & Chris’s friends: Melanie, Kerry, & Karen; Kate D, Cathy & Sallie (Cathy’s mum); Sally; Carol & Bob; Lisa & Tim (arriving about 7.30 after University of Melbourne Alumni Program Launch in Carlton) .

 Sat Aug 29

• 10.00 am Footnotes to History (Sally)
• 11.30 am Writing Other People’s Stories (Lisa, Sally)
• 11.30 am On Humbug and Bulls (Chris, Carol)
• 1.00 pm Why Australian Literature (Lisa, Chris, Sally, Kate, Cathy & Sallie – Cathy’s mum):
• 2.30 pm What’s Left Out? (Chris, Sally, Lisa, Kate, Cathy & Sallie – Cathy’s mum)
• 4.00 pm Is the Pen Mightier than the Stethoscope? (Chris, Sally)
• 5.30 pm Outsiders (Chris, Sally)
• 5.30 pm Waugh on Waugh (Lisa)
• 5.30 pm The Same, Same Old Story (Carol)

ANZLL DINNER at RYLAND’s Hawthorn, address etc to be sent by email to those attending)

Attending (7 confirmed): Lurline, Chris, Carol, Kate D, Cathy & Sallie (Cathy’s mum); Lisa. (Apologies from Sally C.)

Sun Aug 30

• 11.30 am 19th Century Australian Art (Lisa)
• 11.30 am Bringing Life to the Inanimate (Carol)
• 1.00 pm Digging Up the Past (Lisa, Carol)
• 1.00 pm From Good to Evil (Sally)
• 2.30 pm Christos Tsiolkas in conversation (Carol, Sally)
• 4.00 pm Shaun Tan in Conversation (Lisa)

Sally & others: TBA

PS For a more user friendly listing of all events day-by-day than the one on the MWF site, click here.