There be a Meanjin blog, with name Spike, where high-quality content is just pouring in, including editor Sophie Cunningham's top-notch travelogue pieces. Google Reader has discovered its feed - just look at that! how pretty! so I can kill the Twitter feed now.(Well, I might...and I might not.)
Recently George Dunford has posted there on blogged novels (I hear also that Max Barry is publishing his latest online in serial format; the indefatigable Angela Meyer of the fabulous LiteraryMinded site at Crikey has interviewed him here. Links via Matilda.)
At the Overland blog it is business as usual, with a spirited post from Jeff Sparrow about writers being ...well, generally boring folk.
In other Australian blog news, Perry is going to work through Jamie Grant's 100 Australian Poems on a weekly basis, which will make for some excellent reading. Go, you good thing. And Sarsaparilla Lite is well and truly in place pending the resurrection of that original flavour of cultural commentary.
And at Ragged Claws, comme d'habitude, there's plenty to talk about. Not always strickly Orstralian, but lots of commenters and a great new talking space. I am grateful to James Bradley who first alerted me to its presence at his excellent blog, City Of Tongues (word is on the street that it's having a makeover, so watch that space for a possible name change.)
With all of this sparkling, nay, champagne blogging going on (including everything on The Rachel Papers), it makes me wonder, in a Bex-and-a- lie-down context of course, what could I possibly be missing about Australian books and writing on Twitter?
It does feel funny to be old media in a twinkling like that.
(ReadWriteWeb says Twitter has grown faster in Oz than - well, anywhere, recently. Just look at that graph. I assure you, my brain is way too small and wizened, and I am no part of it.)
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