The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors – a reading by Albert Wendt and a review

Auckland poet Paula Green reviews The Writing Life — offering a wonderfully warm and personal response to the authors and their life’s work.

Twelve authors talk to biographer and historian, Deborah Shephard, about writing and living. It is a captivating new book. Deborah has done an excellent job drawing out stories and raising issues; from what it means to write alongside domestic and money-earning demands to coping with both success and failure. She is familiar with the authors’ books and the context of the times in which they were written. The interviews often feel like a warm and stimulating conversation rather than a pre-prepared interview. John McDermott took stunning photographs to accompany the text.

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