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Open Book Report: Earl Lovelace and Etienne van Heerden in conversation
2011-09-28 Earl Lovelace, celebrated author from Trinidad, and well-known South African author Etienne van Heerden took part in the Free the Word PEN Dialogue at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town on Thursday, 22nd September 2011.
Open Book Festival Report 3: A whale of a time
2011-09-22 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s latest novel, Nineveh, was launched in the Iziko Museum’s Whale Well on Wednesday afternoon as part of the Open Book Literary Festival in Cape Town.
Independent Publishers: How do they survive?
2011-09-20 Junkets Publisher started as a one-off. In 2005 I had written Rebel Angel, a novel based on the life of the poet John Keats. I didn’t offer it to any of the mainstream publishers because I believed that at that particular time they should be publishing South African material, not books about British poets.
Rotten Tomato: Lovely, Still - Mostly enchanting, completely tragic
2011-09-08 Lovely, Still is a gentle film utterly worth watching, but when sitting down to view it, one should preferably know nothing about the film.
Katherine Bull reflects on her exhibition performances data-capture: LOST_& FOUND
2011-09-02 During her most recent exhibition at Blank Projects in Woodstock, Katherine Bull presented a series of watercolour paintings created while she was watching the first five seasons of the television series Lost. The sixth and final season was ...
The duvet
2011-09-02 The duvet has the brown stainof cat’s paw, of general outside spaces
brought inside along with a dead bird, perhaps,
Jazz song
2011-09-02 Jazz song The saxophone segues into a room simmering with strangers: its notes are bricks, constructing shelter. Leaning into a bench corner he swallows down a melancholy beer, lets his eye slide from under his worn checked cap. His gaze elides ...