Review of Hot Copy: Reading and Writing Now by Don Anderson; Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work by Candida Baker; and Rooms of their Own by Jennifer Ellison
Abstract
Like the astute critic that he is, Don Anderson begins to digest his book Hot Copy for us in his Introduction—an attempt to have the first and the last word perhaps. As he is well aware, reviews written as literary journalism run the risk of emerging as a series of 'unconnected atoms', in the shift from newspaper to book, hot copy can become cold prose. Gathered together these reviews necessarily assume a shape and a pattern, quite unlike their original format in which Anderson's review jostles alongside recipes and recits on the arts pages of the National Times or, more recently, the Times on Sunday.
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Published 1 May 1987 in Volume 13 No. 1. Subjects: Writer's craft.
Cite as: Whitlock, Gillian. ‘Review of Hot Copy: Reading and Writing Now by Don Anderson; Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work by Candida Baker; and Rooms of their Own by Jennifer Ellison.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1987, doi: 10.20314/als.60dd2faf59.