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Reading literary fiction can make us better thinkers! — more creative, more rational, and more empathic.

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Beth Spencer

  Book sculpture-The Thinker- by Daniel Lai A study by researchers at Toronto University has concluded that reading literary fiction can make us better thinkers — more able to handle uncertainty, ambiguity, open-ended situations and questions; all of which in … Continue reading →

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Diorama at the old Melbourne Museum – the Okapi (genesis of a poem)

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Beth Spencer

. What is an okapi? And why should a creature barely seen by humans matter to us? Background to this poem:  A museum is more than just a place made up of things, it is also an arrangement of bodies: … Continue reading →

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Flying on a cinders track: reading in a digital age and the return of the novella

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Beth Spencer

While there is so much both good and scary about the digital revolution and the increasing ease of independent publishing, I do love the possibilities that are opening up for the shorter fiction forms that have been long neglected by … Continue reading →

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