Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
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High Season: A Memoir by Jim Hearn.
HIGH SEASON Hedonism, heroin and humour, High Season: A Memoir by Jim Hearn gives readers a front seat view into the world of excessive appetites. High Season is a rollicking story of food, heroin, prostitution and celebrity. Jim Hearn cleverly weaves his life story around cooking an unscheduled 5-star lunch for Paris Hilton and friends on New Years Day at the peak of the high season in Byron Bay. Hearn provides his readers with a degustation meal on hospitality: its meaning, its limits and its excesses. This book could well have been entitled ‘When enough […]
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Byron Bay Writers Festival
By Yvonne Rose Here in the northern rivers I have met so many creative people. A good percentage of these are would-be authors like myself, who spend large tracks of time beavering away at their next piece, dreaming of having their work read and appreciated one day. The beauty of writing is that its a one way communication for the writer, however when people do read your work you hope they can hear you and ‘really get’ what you are trying to convey. However, it happens that, converting the images in our heads, and […]