13 July: Dare, Truth or Promise – Paula Boock

Victoria University Writer in Residence Paula Boock talks with Kate De Goldi about her novel-in-progress and her work as both an award-winning writer for young adults (Dare, Truth or Promise), and as a scriptwriter whose credits include Insiders Guide to Love, bro’Town and the recent tele-feature Until Proven Innocent.

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By MATTHEW DENTITH
One of the (unfortunate) side effects of writing a PhD thesis on Conspiracy Theories is the feeling that you are living in a Len Deighton novel. The difference between fact and fiction becomes more and more blurred as you study Conspiracy Theories. The very act of reading the paper ends up being a speculative exercise in ‘How would a Conspiracy Theorist link these events together?’ and there is always the lurking horror that one day you won’t treat it as a mere intellectual fancy.
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Poem of the Week: LAST POST by Mary Cresswell

From: Nearest and Dearest, Steele Roberts. $20.

LAST POST

First we took Manhattan
then we took Berlin
We sang of free love, Mao and Marx
and nitroglycerin.

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