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Speaker : Ramona Koval
Topic: Fire and Ice – On slow reading, being serious and following your nose
As a former radio broadcaster specialising in books, writing and reading, I fondly remember the torrent of publications that came pouring into my office from all over the world. Some books managed to survive the treatment of close reading, note taking in margins and on the endpapers at the back, and then being offered to colleagues or to charities or to friends, making it back the bookshelves in my home.
Inspecting my shelves, certain themes emerge. Where did my affection for explorers journals (of polar regions particularly) spring from? Why did I gravitate to these works and to travelers’ tales? And a hundred years after Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Scott expedition, why am I still thirsty for such works?
Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the editor of Best Australian Essays (Black Inc) and was the presenter of ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. Her most recent book was Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers ( Scribe) , a collection of her international literary interviews. She is writing a series of essays called On Reading, to be published later this year by Text.
Venue: National Library of Australia
Time: 5:30pm registration for 6:00pm start, concludes 7:15pm
Cost: $20 for members $25 non members
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