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Derided, disparaged and cursed to the heavens, book critics are depicted as literature’s grand villains – as frustrated creators and gleeful wreckers. But what do critics really do? And why are they...

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Members Dining Room | MOAD

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Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor, Eric Beecher, lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls – from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk – and on his own unique experience of...

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Sun 27 Oct 2:00 PM

Theatre | NLA

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Theatre | NLA

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What happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art? Join the magnificent Michelle de Kretser – one of Australia’s most celebrated writers – for a discussion of her new book, Theory and Practice, which bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes. In conversation with Bernadette Brennan.

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Sun 27 Oct

12:00 PM

Theatre | NLA

Parkes Place Canberra, ACT, 2600

Canberra Writers Festival

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Theatre | NLA