Steven Carroll, seeming only to have about two different ideas about his novels, which he repeated at intervals (not a criticism, btw); Michelle de Kretser, elegantly and softly spoken; Toni Jordan, unpretentious and amusing on the subject of her novel Addition; and a Nick Gadd, who writes crime fiction with apparently something of a literary bent, but didn't make much of an impression - all on the subject of writing (about) Melbourne in its various incarnations and elements, and none particularly dealing with 'my' Melbourne...which was at least partly the point of the session as a whole.
(w/ Cassie)
