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Steve Bidwell-Brown

Steve Bidwell-Brown is a former Readings Online manager.

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Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
by David Hunt

Reviewed by
Steve Bidwell-Brown, Jul 2013

Talented comedy writer David Hunt has created a remarkable work of pop history with Girt – a well-researched, engaging and articulate lampooning of Australia’s earliest colonial years.

Taking an early cue from Tim Flannery’s controversial view of Indigenous Australians as…

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11 Sep 2013

What I Loved: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

It’s the early 1960s and life is aglow on the American east coast. Amateur musicians are composing Beatles-inspired pop music, local shrinks are starting to prescribe medicinal LSD, and words like ‘feminism’ are sprouting in the minds of the young…
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