Writers' Week
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Scribes revisit history in search of the truth
ABOUT a week before Anzac Day there is a burst of "jingoistic sloganeering that sprouts like a noxious weed".
Atheist evolves into a fan of the museum
HE is the most famous atheist in the world, but Professor Richard Dawkins is a believer - in the power of museums to present evolutionary facts.
A novel twist on history
SEX, lust, love and violence are helping to sell history to readers who are learning more than they realise, British best-selling author Sarah Dunant says.
Writers - they are a mad, mad lot
WHEN Tom Keneally came to his first Adelaide Writers' Week in the late 1960s, he was a newly minted novelist with an inferiority complex.
Steamy ending to Writers' Week
AS the temperature climbed to the high 30s, Adelaide Writers' Week 2008 drew to a close, leaving us to sift through the catalogue of memories.
A view from a quill holder
BEHIND the scenes at Writers' Week is not the highbrow meeting-of-minds fest one might imagine. Not if one listens to English author Miranda Seymour.
McEwan gives taste of new story
IN a rare treat yesterday, Ian McEwan gave the crowd at Adelaide Writers' Week the first public taste of his new novel.
Siege spawns Brooks' book
GERALDINE Brooks, the Australian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was moved to tears as she spoke of the Government's apology to the Stolen Generations.
Ruling is to break the rules
RULES are made to be broken. Everyone on Tuesday's Writers' Week panel on the topic was agreed on that.
Greer has God in her sights
IT is not the male of the species but the male of theology that the doyenne of feminists now has denounced.
Audio
Germaine Greer
HEAR Germaine Greer speak on a range of topics at Writers' Week - from her apparent sneering at Australia, to the environment and state of childcare.
Paul Auster
PAUL Auster, the American novelist, poet, and filmmaker, reads from his forthcoming novel Man in the Dark.
Geraldine Brooks
HEAR Australian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks read exclusively to AdelaideNow from her latest novel, People of the Book.
David Malouf
HEAR acclaimed Australian writer David Malouf read his poem Afterword in Adelaide during Writers' Week.
Peter Carey
HEAR best-selling author Peter Carey read from his latest novel, His Illegal Self, in which he returns to the hippie hinterland of the Sunshine Coast.
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