This week, our Fancy Goods blog hits the road and takes in both Adelaide Writers' Week and the Perth Writers Festival: This year, due to some trickiness in the calendar, the days of the week have conspired to present writers festival-lovers with a tough choice: Perth or Adelaide? Go west or go south? Our writers fest cup floweth over.
Closer to home, we made our first visit to the new world of Meanland: The bright and public light of the online social world it at odds with that cliché of the writer in their garret, and perhaps its attraction lies in exactly that relief from a process that is ‘inherently lonely', as Simons argued. But are we really in danger of losing our private spaces, or will they instead be more fiercely guarded, even more private? Matthia Dempsey wonders about the future of 'our dark and private spaces'.
