Booknotes Number 178 Summer 2013

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The latest issue has just been published and is full of interesting features as you will see from this list of contents:

From the CEO’s Desk Catriona Ferguson / 3

Golden Reads / 4

Rachel O'Neill asks who gets to pick our contemporary

classics

Five Hard Questions / 6

Catriona Ferguson tells us what’s on her mind

Soapbox / 7

C. K. Stead on poetry’s freedom fighters and formalists

New Fiction / 8

A new story by Alice Tawhai

Heroes and Villains / 10

Kiwi writers reveal their favourite heroes and villains

True Stories Told Live / 11

The science of live storytelling

Book Group Compass Emily Perkins / 12

The Year in Review / 13

We had an amazing 2012, rich in ambition and full of

achievement

The Siren’s Call / 14

Megan Dunn on the lure of the coffee table book

Graphic Fiction / 16

An extract from Tim Gibson’s online comic, Moth City

First Person / 18

Elizabeth Knox on the many lives of her writing space

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Catriona Ferguson - Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Book Council - photo by Adam Dudding

Footnote:
I was especially interested, and envious too I might add, to read of Elizabeth Knox's writing space.