Issue #9

• Ockhams out loud! >>Find out more about the books short-listed for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

• The short list for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. >>Start reading!

• A Landfall audio gathering!

• 'A journey around my room' in lock-down with Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral. >>Xavier de Maistre. 

• Breton Dukes's virtual launch of his book What Sort of Man? at an empty Woof (includes cocktails and music). >>What Sort of Man? will be here soon.

• Watch Great Apes (the play) by Will Self. >>Read the novel. 

• The writer's obligation in the Age of X. 

• Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir. >>Becoming Beauvoir. 

• Anne Patchett on operating her bookshop in something equivalent to our forthcoming Level 3. 

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