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creased at the edges
On writing and politics
This is a blog about writing and living a sustainable life. In particular, it is focused on writing fiction while trying to live more simply as I grow older. Like an old book I have become creased at edges.
For over thirty years I was a teacher in schools and universities and was published widely in the field of Cultural Studies. More recently I have turned my hand to writing fiction between stints in the garden where I grow vegetables and looks after chickens.
Get In Touch
- cbarker_nbn@iinet.net.au
- twitter: chrisjonbarker
House On Fire
Please click on the link below for my story ‘House on Fire’ published by ‘East of the Web’ (UK) http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/HousFire1310.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/HousFire1310.shtml
A response to ‘On the Beach’
By Brian Martin Responding to my post about ‘On The Beach” Dear Chris Thanks for your reflections on On the Beach. They greatly interested me because, like you, I recently reread the book and watched the film. That was in late 2020 for my book Truth Tactics (free at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/21tt/), one chapter of which isContinue reading “A response to ‘On the Beach’”
On The Beach
I recently re read Nevil Shute’s 1957 post-apocalyptical novel On the Beach, and watched the 1959 movie of the same name. I last read the book 50 years ago. The story details the responses of a diverse set of characters living in Melbourne as deadly radiation from a northern hemisphere nuclear war approaches – withContinue reading “On The Beach”
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