Year: 2016
book review: asia on tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism
Recently Steph had an article at Overland, A short history of the dangers of travel writing. This is a part of how she wants to write more about decolonising travel, and you’re going to be seeing more of that here on No Award. Today, a book review: Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism, edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang.
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Or, how not to do regional promotion.
the way you think it linkspam
We had a week off posting! But we are back now, and posting will continue through the end of year public holiday stretch. Mostly. Today’s music is The Northern Folk, an 11-piece indie group from Albury who Steph saw play at a festival last week.
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Because Melbourne is having some weather this week
No Award’s Official Gift-Giving Guide, 2016 edition
If you celebrate some kind of gift-exchange this season, here’s our handy annual guide to Things That People Might Like, Not That We’re The Boss Of You Or Anyone Else, We Just Thought It Might Help.
Previously:
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environmental business at SWF + UWRF
Final instalment of Stephanie goes to UWRF + SWF! Today we’re talking environmental business, featuring activism, identity and the illegal wildlife trade; and sadly we’re not talking sand piracy.
No Award reads Auslit (that’s set in England and France): Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta
Bashir “Bish” Ortley, a London cop — currently suspended after his drinking problem led to an incident with another cop — gets a phone call: a bus full of British schoolkids has been bombed in France, and his teenage daughter was on board.
And worse, one of the other passengers is Violette LeBrac, whose mother has been in prison for thirteen years after she confessed to helping her father bomb a supermarket — and Bish was the cop who took four-year-old Violette from her mother’s arms after the arrest.
Violette is the obvious suspect, but before the investigation can even begin, she has disappeared, taking a thirteen-year-old boy with her.
Controversial OzYA opinion: I’m really ambivalent about Melina Marchetta’s work. Looking for Alibrandi was my favourite book in grade nine, but then it became assigned reading for grade twelve advanced English, and didn’t really hold up.
So I’m not a wholehearted Marchetta fan. I’ve liked some of her books, hated one, didn’t bother with her fantasy series. And YET, when I heard that her next book was a thriller aimed at an adult audience, I was intrigued. (Crime fiction: my other passion.) I bought Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil from Kobo and spent the weekend on the couch, inhaling it.
It was wonderful.
Identity, piety, translation and performativity at SWF
Penultimate SWF/UWRF post. Today we’re talking about writing from the diaspora, the future of translation, and objects of piety and consumerism.
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