Meanjin
Volume 68 Number 2, 2009
The June edition of Meanjin includes Sian Prior on shyness; Rachel Buchanan on the impact of art on seeing the work of artist, Len Lye, when she was still a child and Marcus Westbury on the ways in which funding bodies shape our cultural lives. Mark Dapin, still in recovery from interviewing Gordon Ramsay a year ago, writes on the perils of the celebrity feature; Katherine Wilson tells the story behind her recent hoaxing of Keith Windschuttle; Nonie Sharp gives a moving account of the relationship between Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs; Michael Williams interviews Christos Tsolkas while Colette Vella describes the evolution of the relationship between book editors, agents and authors; Lynne Spender asks whether intellectual property can be owned; Joseph Pearson explores online identity; Craig McGregor remembers what it was like to live in Harlem in the sixties; Ross Gibson gives us a fresh take on Patyegarang and William Dawes, and. Includes fiction by Bruce Pascoe, Mark O’Flynn, Paul Mitchell, Kristel Thornell and Caroline Lee.