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Friday, February 28, 2014 1:42:24 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Christmas Press heralds a return to traditional picture book publishing in Australia:
Stephanie said, "“There’s not a lot of traditional material for kids being produced in Australia,” says Sophie Masson, one of the co-founders of Christmas Press, a new boutique picture book publisher with a focus on folktales and traditional stories. Many..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 1:42:24 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Why today’s underrated books are tomorrow’s cult classics:
Stephanie said, "The Most Underrated Book Award 2013, which I helped judge, was announced on Friday at the close of the SPN Independent Publishing Conference. The winner was the wonderful Fish-Hair Woman by Merlinda Bobis (Spinifex Press). In case it’s of..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:27 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Separating the author and the work: on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita:
Stephanie said, "Over the course of my last few reviews I’ve been considering the role of the author as narrator and as character, and the degree to which authorial insertion is, to the mind of the reader, assumed to be inalienable. In large part this has..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:27 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled On Sisyphus, Camus, knowledge and Chaim Potok’s In The Beginning:
Stephanie said, "Of late it seems that I am being haunted by intertextuality. Each book that I pick up seems to slot into the vast Connect Four board of hermeneutics that is my reading life, and with everything I read, I find my to-read list growing ever broader..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:27 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Hipsters, irony and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus:
Stephanie said, "“If [the myth of Sisyphus] is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?” writes Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he grapples with..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:27 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Event Summary: Carlos Ruiz Zafón in conversation at the Wheeler Centre:
Stephanie said, " On Monday I popped along to the Wheeler Centre to see Barcelona-born, LA-based author Carlos Ruiz Zafón in conversation with local writer and broadcaster Sian Prior. As usual, I went bearing pen and paper, and took copious notes. (A..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Daniel Dalton on Creatavist and multimodal story-telling:
Stephanie said, "Late last year I attended a lecture with David Shields, author of Reality Hunger and ardent and vociferous proclaimer of the death of the novel. In Shields’ view, authors wishing to create new and relevant work work need to turn away from..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Interview: Pierre Proske on the Unfinished Phrase iPhone App:
Stephanie said, " If you were to ask me to name one of the more unusual collocations in the English language, “exquisite corpse” would have to be one of them. Fortunately for those of us of squeamish constitution, it refers not to some sort of..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Ideological silos, blocking people on Twitter, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South:
Stephanie said, "A week or so ago, I read with distinct amusement the commentary of two Twitter friends who were attending the Malcolm Gladwell lecture at Book Expo America. Each was live tweeting the event, and in verbose, manic style, their tweets filling my feed..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled An Ode to Book Snobs:
Stephanie said, "Some months ago, during my efforts to seek climate-controlled asylum from Melbourne’s oppressive summer days, I found myself in an independent bookshop known for its having both superior air conditioning and superior floor stock. Not to mention a..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Giveaway: Tampa by Alissa Nutting:
Stephanie said, " If I were to peg a book as 2013′s most controversial release, Alissa Nutting’s Tampa, would probably be it. I’ll be reviewing the book shortly, but in the meantime the generous people at Allen & Unwin have..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:39:26 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Cover designs inspired by art: Wally Lamb’s We Are Water and Rhein II by Andreas Gursky:
Stephanie said, " When browsing through my many bookish newsletters today I came across an ad for Wally Lamb’s latest release We Are Water, and was struck by the cover design, which I found fiercely reminiscent of Rhein II, the photograph by Andreas..." more
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:38:03 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Review: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz:
Stephanie said, "“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news,” begins Stormbreaker, the first in Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling Alex Rider series. I would definitely concur. The last time someone buzzed me at three..." more
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:17:59 PM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Giveaway: Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz:
Stephanie said, "Thanks to Grand Central Publishing, I have a copy of Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz to give away to one of my US readers. Keep reading for more about the book and for details on how to enter! Blurb: ”Admissions. Admission. Aren’t..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Interview: Steven Lochran on the superpowers of superhero fiction:
Stephanie said, " Late last year I chatted to Steven Lochran about the release of Vanguard Prime: Gold Rush, the first in a high-octane series that blends the pacing of Percy Jackson with the superhero cred of X-Men. The second in the series has just been..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Giveaway: Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series:
Stephanie said, "To celebrate the release of bestselling romance author Elizabeth Hoyt’s latest release Lord of Darkness, Grand Central publishing has kindly offered one of my readers the chance to win a five-book set of Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series. The..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Guest Post: Books that have taught me how to travel by Walter Mason:
Stephanie said, "Today’s guest post is by Walter Mason “If I rest, I rust.” Martin Luther I suffer that great affliction of all bookish people: Before I embark on any activity I need to read at least one book about it. Perhaps it betrays a lack of..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Big Ray by Michael Kimball: A personal response:
Stephanie said, " My father is a small man. He is small in stature. He is small in emotions. And he is also small in achievement. My father’s greatest achievement is the PhD he obtained just after I was born. When I turned eighteen, he gave me a copy of..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Review: Wild Card by Steven Lochran:
Stephanie said, "Anyone who’s been reading this site for a while knows that I regularly pass on zingy series fiction to my husband. Though his reading interests are polar opposites of mine, he’s possibly an even tougher critic. He’s basically a..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Review: Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt:
Stephanie said, "Whew, here I am, having emerged from air after slogging my way through Elizabeth Hoyt’s Lord of Darkness, the latest in her Maiden Lane series. Though not a long novel, Lord of Darkness certainly feels it: I suspect that there might be some..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 4:07:51 AM
Stephanie Campisi wrote a blog post titled Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter: a guy’s perspective:
Stephanie said, "My husband Jono and I have pretty divergent reading tastes: his section of the bookshelf is largely business books and non-fiction, whereas mine’s largely fiction with the odd piece of narrative non-fiction thrown in. But there is some..." more
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:54:42 PM
Stephanie Campisi added The Ugly Dumpling to her Bookshelf