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Lurie discusses the changing significance of literary festivals which, she argues, have become so fashionable in Australia that they are a tourist attraction in many small towns. Unlike twenty years ago, the writers' festival today 'is a supersized, big-business blockbuster affair, with spunkier writers, sexier topics and a crowd who will have a latte with that. It's great for books and great for publishing, but has it lost its soul?'

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    y separately published work icon Australian Author vol. 36 no. 2 August 2004 Z1144049 2004 periodical issue 2004 pg. 8-12
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