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Max Barry
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The Best Story I Never Wrote
This is relevant because Guy Pearce is in the news, Oscar-nominated for The Brutalist. I can’t watch this because it’ll remind me of one of my great regrets: I was shot down in 2009 on a pitch about Guy Pearce stealing someone’s life.This came about when I was approached to adapt the story of Nicael Holt, a 24-year old surfer from Wollongong who one day decided to sell his life on eBay. This is an
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Lexicon
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Jennifer Government
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2002
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The 22 Murders of Madison May
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2021
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Providence
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2020
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Company
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2006
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Syrup
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1999
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Machine Man
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2008
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Discordia
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2021
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It Came From Cruden Farm
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Springtide
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2007
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“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
― Lexicon
― Lexicon
“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.”
― Lexicon
― Lexicon
“every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
― Lexicon
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
― Lexicon
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Since 1986, Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been a cornerstone of the city's literary culture. The festival's success – and that of the city’s wr ...more
