Discusses the state of the Australian publishing industry (in particular the demise of local firms) in the context of developments in publishing in the USA…
Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.
Jack Beasley's Journal of an Era: Notes from the Red Letter Days is a companion volume to his earlier Red Letter Days: Notes from Inside…
Wilding provides a brief obituary for Christina Stead following her death in March 1983.
Michael Wilding discusses his approach to writing.
Small presses, little magazines. 'Why small?' Walter Stone would always ask, 'why little Why begin from a posture of defeat. Why believe the people who…
Wilding discusses new Australian writing, publishing, his work as editor of Stand and his creative work.
The meagre information on D. H. Lawrence's stay in Australia in 1922 has been supplemented recently by the publication of a number of his letters…
Wilding discusses his work as a writer, editor, critic and publisher.
The substantial work of finding out what the great figures of Australian lterature actually wrote is gradually being done. Walter Stone's 'Studies in Australian Bibliography'…
The Tichborne case provided Marcus Clarke with the material of John Rex's impersonation of Richard Devine in His Natural Life Arthur Orton, a butcher…
Poole and Wilding provide an annotated bibliography of Clarke's contributions to Notes and Queries, the long-running journal of English literature and language scholarship. Clarke…
The form of Kangaroo has found few admirers. John Middleton Murry described it as 'a chaotic book. It has many passages of great descriptive beauty…
Christina Stead is one of the major innovatory prose writers in English of this century. This needs stating at the outset, since her stature, distinction…
The new series of 'Bibliographies of Australian Writers' recently launched by the Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, is one that could be very useful…