AustLit
4958005801663773959.jpg
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Helen Garner’s second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work.
'With devastating honesty, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another—how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both thrilling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
-
Epigraph : 'But evidently I had not understood enough, or rather, as I was slowly finding out, everything that one thinks one understands has to be understood over and over again, in its different aspects, each time with the same new shock of discovery.' - Marion Milner, An Experiment in Leisure
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Related Works
-
y
Yellow Notebook : Diaries Volume I, 1978-1986
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2019
17065992
2019
single work
diary
'HELEN Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard.
'Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers.
'Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, in this elegant hardback edition, spans about a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip. It will delight Garner fans and those new to her work alike.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Works about this Work
-
Practical Circumstance
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary -
Painter’s Eye and a Poet’s Ear
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 November 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary'Helen Garner’s diaries have always been some kind of overriding preoccupation for this writer who breaks down the barrier between fiction and nonfiction. Forty years ago her detractors declared of Monkey Grip, arguably the most game-changing novel in Australian history, that it was simply her diaries regurgitated and dressed up as art.' (Introduction)
-
The Calling to Write : The Latest Volume of Helen Garner's Diaries
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary'‘Unerring muse that makes the casual perfect’: Robert Lowell’s compliment to his friend Elizabeth Bishop comes to mind as I read Helen Garner. She is another artist who reveres the casual for its power to disrupt and illuminate. Nothing is ever really casual for her, but rather becomes part of a perfection that she resists at the same time. The ordinary in these diaries – the daily, the diurnal, the stumbled-upon, the breathing in and out – is turned into something else through the writer’s extraordinary craft.' (Introduction)
-
Guardian Australia Book Club: Join Helen Garner to Talk About Writing, Life, and Releasing Her Diaries
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 November 2020; 'Garner’s latest collection tracks a tumultuous time, beginning with a love affair and ending in controversy. In partnership with Sydney writers’ festival, she’ll be discussing One Day I’ll Remember This with Michael Williams – and with you'
-
The Calling to Write : The Latest Volume of Helen Garner's Diaries
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary'‘Unerring muse that makes the casual perfect’: Robert Lowell’s compliment to his friend Elizabeth Bishop comes to mind as I read Helen Garner. She is another artist who reveres the casual for its power to disrupt and illuminate. Nothing is ever really casual for her, but rather becomes part of a perfection that she resists at the same time. The ordinary in these diaries – the daily, the diurnal, the stumbled-upon, the breathing in and out – is turned into something else through the writer’s extraordinary craft.' (Introduction)
-
Painter’s Eye and a Poet’s Ear
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 November 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary'Helen Garner’s diaries have always been some kind of overriding preoccupation for this writer who breaks down the barrier between fiction and nonfiction. Forty years ago her detractors declared of Monkey Grip, arguably the most game-changing novel in Australian history, that it was simply her diaries regurgitated and dressed up as art.' (Introduction)
-
Practical Circumstance
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of One Day I'll Remember This : Diaries 1987-1995 2020 single work diary -
Guardian Australia Book Club: Join Helen Garner to Talk About Writing, Life, and Releasing Her Diaries
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 November 2020; 'Garner’s latest collection tracks a tumultuous time, beginning with a love affair and ending in controversy. In partnership with Sydney writers’ festival, she’ll be discussing One Day I’ll Remember This with Michael Williams – and with you'
