Issue #7

• "Writing allows we to worry about stuff better." — Max Porter on Lanny, the pandemic and anxiety. >>Read our reviews of Lanny.

• Lavinia Greenlaw on the absence of light. >>Her latest books. 

• Post the view from your lock-down window on instagram (include the frame!) as a stay-home-and-save-lives activity. Use the hashtag #windowsontheworldinlockdown >>Based on Matteo Pericoli's book Windows on the World. 

• Tag your favourite bookshop to win a stash of BooksellersNZ tokens. 

• A feature on Landfall editor Emma Neale. 

• Join Hella Bauer's on-line Covid-19 writing group (Hella teaches a writing class at VOLUME (but this is not a writing class)).

• Beckett — a Quinn Martin production. 

• New Zealand typographer and hand-printer Tara McLeod on the joys of letterpress. >>His book.

• An important message from some librarians.

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