Nick Parsons remembers the mounting piles of books on the kitchen table. They were new-minted Australian plays published by Currency Press, the new-minted company of his parents, Katharine Brisbane and Philip Parsons. Setting up a business selling local plays might sound like one of those jokes about how to turn…
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The best way out of the lockdown blues is not to try (and fail) to perk yourself up, it’s to wallow in the sorrow. Dig deeper into the gloom until, in some white blast of catharsis, you rise phoenix-like and emotionally purged. Well, for a while… Idioms such as Italian…
There’s a pattern. Initially, for instance, author Carol Major suggests this story be about her publisher, Spineless Wonders, rather than herself. Then she proposes it be about her and her sister (Canadian poet Alice Major), who is releasing a new book simultaneously. More of the pattern is found in the…