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BOOK TURNING

Tim Blair , Monday, July, 23, 2012, (7:25am)

Author and ABC First Tuesday Book Club panelist Marieke Hardy literally turns against her own industry:

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Given the difficulties her grandfather famously endured getting his own books published, you’d think Hardy the Lesser would be incredibly sensitive to anything that even hints at censorship. But you’d be wrong, because she’s an idiot. Perhaps Hardy’s fellow leftists at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival might ask her to host a seminar on how best to deal with the works of non-approved authors. Suggested title: “Turning or Burning: Same Aim, Different Methods.”

Grandpa would be ever so proud.

UPDATE. What does the official ABC Twitter account for First Tuesday Book Club make of Hardy’s soft censorship? They’re evidently fine with it.

UPDATE II. Another idea for Writers’ Festival organisers: let’s have Marieke list the books she’s concealed from buyers and the bookstores where this takes place. Shunned authors and retrenched store staff could join in to debate the issue.

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