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Here she tells us about seeing the author of \"The dinner\" live at the Writers Festival.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AMtIGEHR620\/VzlfVfWUVYI\/AAAAAAAABLM\/_VJGsSZ3QNUe632BdiChve9c6PkYvaqtgCLcB\/s1600\/Koch_credit%2BMark%2BKohn%252C%2BHollandse%2BHoogte.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AMtIGEHR620\/VzlfVfWUVYI\/AAAAAAAABLM\/_VJGsSZ3QNUe632BdiChve9c6PkYvaqtgCLcB\/s200\/Koch_credit%2BMark%2BKohn%252C%2BHollandse%2BHoogte.jpg\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780804138819\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780804138819\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"134\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003Eauthor photo credit Mark Kohn, Hollandse Hoogte\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHerman Koch came across as really nice, funny, and very natural.  From time to time we got little nuggets of information about him. He told us his wife was Spanish, and that when he was in Colombia recently, he saw his books (in Spanish) in the shop windows, and was thrilled. We also learned that he has Asperger's, like some of the protagonists of his novels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2691318\"\u003EThe Dinner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E was introduced by session chair Stephanie Johnson as a satire, and indeed, it is a satire of bourgeois attitudes, and it is brutal.  The aspect of autism and Asperger's cropped up immediately and the novel was compared by Johnson to \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1193597\"\u003EWe need to talk about Kevin\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eas the children (but also the father) obviously lacked empathy and were, like Kevin, completely indifferent to the suffering they inflict on other people.  The children in \u003Ci\u003EThe Dinner\u003C\/i\u003E don’t take any responsibility for their actions and let their parents arrange everything for them. Furthermore, the parents are delighted to do so. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHerman Koch didn’t really want to elaborate much on the Asperger's aspect. He thinks it is a complex issue and lends itself to misunderstandings.  However, there was quite a lot of laughter as Herman Koch confessed he had Asperger's.   Apparently he had problems when he was at school and was sent, with his parent’s consent, to a psychologist for a series of sessions.   He poured out his feelings and confessions about everything that was bothering him to the psychologist in the first session, but when he phoned for a second appointment, he found out that the psychologist had died.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe discussion passed to his second book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2839086\"\u003ESummer House with Swimming  Pool\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, which is even bleaker than \u003Ci\u003EThe Dinner. \u003C\/i\u003ECritics\u0026nbsp;labelled it a black comedy.  Black comedy and satire seem to be Herman Koch’s trademark.  Koch said he had a lot of fun writing it.  The doctor in the novel is repulsed by the human body and some critics are saying that the book is making fun of the medical profession.   Herman Koch says his doctor was always a bit worried about him, because he is a writer.  When Koch finished the novel and went to give him a copy as a present, the doctor told him he had already bought one and read it – he was suspicious of having made an appearance in the book and wanted to check.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe setting of the novel is France, where a Dutch family have bought a house where they go to spend the holidays. The French hate the Dutch: Koch explained that when the Dutch go on holiday they take everything from home - even the potatoes and margarine, so the camping ground managers, as well as everybody else, know they won’t make any money from them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKoch's latest novel will be released in a few months.  It’s called \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3175298\"\u003EDear Mr M.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eand guess what? Its distinctive feature is black humour.   As in his other novels, an ominous threat runs all through the book.   He describes it as “musings on writing”. Koch does not like the modern or postmodern style of writing where the author calls attention to her or himself, or to the story.  They can write well, he says, but the story is not interesting.   He goes back to 19th century writers like Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Chekhov where, he says, you are in the story.  He thinks the writer should be completely forgotten by the reader.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI found it a bit disappointing that he didn’t elaborate very much on his novels as I would have liked to know his opinion on several passages; but he made up for this by his great sense of humour and simply by being himself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- \u003Ci\u003EAna\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9781620645918\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9781620645918\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"320\" width=\"304\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2968744797043488964\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/herman-koch-at-awf-2016-hearts-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2968744797043488964"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2968744797043488964"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/herman-koch-at-awf-2016-hearts-of.html","title":"Herman Koch at AWF 2016: Hearts of Darkness"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AMtIGEHR620\/VzlfVfWUVYI\/AAAAAAAABLM\/_VJGsSZ3QNUe632BdiChve9c6PkYvaqtgCLcB\/s72-c\/Koch_credit%2BMark%2BKohn%252C%2BHollandse%2BHoogte.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3889326521898712240"},"published":{"$t":"2015-05-16T09:54:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-29T16:20:07.800+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"awf15"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Everyone has the absolute right to offend\": University of Auckland debate at AWF15"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Auckland Writers Festival\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EVENT02AWF.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EVENT02AWF.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EClockwise from upper left: \u003Cbr \/\u003EAuletta, Davies, Singh, Haynes\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"display: inline !important; margin: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAna from Readers Services attended the University of Auckland Festival Debate. She reports:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis session was facilitated by\u0026nbsp;Linda Clark. It featured two debaters from the University of Auckland Debating Society, and a panel composed of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Ken Auletta, The New Yorker media correspondent; Nick Davies, investigative journalist from the U.K.;\u0026nbsp;Natalie Haynes, English comedian and classicist; and Jaspreet Singh, Indian\/Canadian novelist and scientist.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EAs we entered the ASB Theatre, we were asked to vote for or against the motion \"Everyone has the absolute right to offend\". We were told the results would be revealed at the end of the debate.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EI already knew that the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Rupert Murdoch scandal would be mentioned (obvious in a debate on freedom of speech). Nick Davies, one of the panel, is in fact the author of \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SHack%20attack%20:%20how%20the%20truth%20caught%20up%20with%20Rupert%20Murdoch%20Lw%3D%3D%20Nick%20Davies.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EHack Attack\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, the definitive record of the investigation into Rupert Murdoch's activities and the phone hacking scandal. And so it was.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EPaul, the first debater, spoke for “yes”.\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EHe outlined what happens when you “offend” someone. He mentioned how Socrates offended Athenian society and had to pay with his life. He also talked about homosexuality, something which was forbidden in the past (remember Oscar Wilde), but now is accepted. It is for things such as this that we must commit to personal and political freedom of expression. If someone is hurt by someone else's speech, the hurt is subjective, and the best response is to just isolate yourself from it (turn the TV off or stop reading or listening). Freedom of expression is one of the most cherished and unalienable rights we have.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EJessica spoke for \"no\".\u0026nbsp;Her argument was that the right to offend is not absolute; that life is not black and white and that we must take into account the social context. She said that many things said to offend do not have any merit and are said just to provoke. The people who deny the holocaust ever happened are an example of this. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ENext the panel had their turn. Ken Auletta started by saying “Yes”. He prefers that everybody have the absolute right to offend. Talking about Chalie Hebdo, he said we don’t have to approve of every cartoon, but we have to accept their right to say what someone wants against the lunatics who carried out the shooting. He knows there are moral codes; there are libels, law, standards for advertising etc., but we have an absolute right to speak.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ENatalie Haynes followed by saying she has a particular hatred of perfume and aftershave and is offended when someone wears them, but it stops there, as\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"I am not a fascist\".\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EShe wonders whether there is a need to be offended. Is it a need? And no one can predict what people are going to be offended about.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EJaspreet Singh talked about Galileo and his troubles with the Roman Catholic Church; he talked about the Bangladeshi blogger who was hacked to death by Al Qaeda for blasphemy; about India, where books get pulped and vigilantes (or the Government) can take away people’s right to free speech.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EHe is very worried that the government of Canada has recently heavily censured scientists and killed many of their projects. If someone protests, he’ll be offending the Government of Canada, and can be put in prison. One other thing that worries him is France’s giant leap towards totalitarianism. He was for ‘yes’.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ENick Davies had the most to say. He said that his response was \"Yes, but...\" He is all for freedom of speech but says there is a “small area” that we should cordon off. One example is if what you are saying is not only offensive, but designed to hurt someone who is vulnerable. Another is when whatever is said is not just causing pain: inciting violence or hatred against a minority is not okay.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EHe said religion shouldn’t be protected, that it shouldn’t be a criminal offence to be rude about God (as it is in Britain). It’s ludicrous. He added that there are many ways to counter this, e.g. fight cartoons with other cartoons. \u0026nbsp;Minimum constraints are best.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe debaters came back out and summed up, and the panel had their own summation - almost without a contribution from Natalie Haynes as Linda Clark forgot about her, but she put her hand up and said her piece which was all in favour of yes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAt that point the audience was asked to vote again, to see if our opinions had been changed. The vote on entering the room was 51% to 49% in favour of the absolute right to offend; after the debate the numbers had shifted to 55% to 45% for “\u003Cb\u003Eyes but”\u003C\/b\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E--Ana\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3889326521898712240\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/everyone-has-absolute-right-to-offend.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3889326521898712240"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3889326521898712240"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/everyone-has-absolute-right-to-offend.html","title":"\"Everyone has the absolute right to offend\": University of Auckland debate at AWF15"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-2276652428316665951"},"published":{"$t":"2014-05-19T11:34:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-05-25T20:28:06.481+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival 2014"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWF 2014"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jonathan Glancey"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Auckland Writers Festival 2014: ‘Why Architecture (and Trains, Planes and Shops) Matter\" with Jonathan Glancey"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003EGuest post by Ana, Readers Services, Central City Library.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EI went to hear Jonathan Glancey, architecture critic and writer whose most recent book is \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2750311\"\u003EModern architecture: the structures which shaped the modern world\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, in conversation with University of Auckland architecture lecturer Bill McKay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LTHlJrMbpUw\/U3lDSXfdTvI\/AAAAAAAAAaU\/_AT7YBqWJ-U\/s1600\/Glancey_Jonathan.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LTHlJrMbpUw\/U3lDSXfdTvI\/AAAAAAAAAaU\/_AT7YBqWJ-U\/s1600\/Glancey_Jonathan.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"189\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EJonathan Glancey\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs soon as the session started, I got the impression that Jonathan Glancey was not very comfortable in modern society. This is an outline of his comments:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe live in the age of globalization where the game is making money. But some people make money while some people go broke. Capitalism triumphed over socialism, and all we do now is consume. Previously developers went to the architect to draw plans for cities and buildings; now the architect goes to the developers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlobalization is a monstrosity: we have skyscrapers and brutal skylines where all cities resemble each other. It’s a very powerful force but the buildings, instead of having character, get more and more banal.  Buildings can expand the imagination, but they can also do the opposite: put kids in square boxes in schools, classrooms, and retail centres, and you’ll kill their imagination.  It is important to start educating people early, and fortunately there are now programmes to bring architecture into schools.  Let children experience beautiful buildings, and teach them to take care of the environment.  For a child this becomes a life-expanding experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wts3DjL-9Ks\/U3mOsVUAioI\/AAAAAAAAAak\/gaW-FhR0JBA\/s1600\/Glancey_Jonathan+(from+web).jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wts3DjL-9Ks\/U3mOsVUAioI\/AAAAAAAAAak\/gaW-FhR0JBA\/s1600\/Glancey_Jonathan+(from+web).jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"185\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EPoliticians have a lot to answer for regarding the environment today.  In Auckland we have many boxes: the Harvey Normans, the Esquires Cafés, Insurance companies, all just big boxes.  Auckland is a real shock for the foreign visitor, a huge sprawl with a very complex land pattern.  One gets no sense of a city, although this is a very particular country with great vegetation.  One solution would be to have sky gardens and integrate them into our buildings. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe all have to engage.  We are responsible for our architecture and we have a voice.  What is the role of the architecture critic? - to make one think about the uses of buildings, of creating a local identity, and not just making money. This matters because if not one loses one’s soul. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same thing applies with trains and planes: we need planes and trains that are skilfully crafted. These days we spend many hours travelling and we need air conditioned, comfortable trains.  Planes can be deadly: lack of oxygen, dull food, smells, crowded toilets, seats with increasingly less leg-room.  Airports are like big cities now and the traveller needs to feel comfortable, with good seats, nice places to eat, and so on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo conclude, Glancey talked about digitization, which he says sounds “exciting” - but as you get older you need to look deeper. Alll this talk that ‘digitization has made the world more democratic’ is nonsense. Things have got both faster and weaker.  The image of architecture as a bright cultural image is false. Many great buildings are subdued. He doesn’t like twitter either -- he says he is not a bird, and he cannot waste time in nonsense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring “Question Time” someone asked Jonathan what he could see in terms of the future of architecture.  He said that we need to look to the past, to the ancient cities and how really advanced they were - with irrigation, heating, running water. Nowadays we need buildings that fit into the landscape.  Look back and see what we can learn from it ( the Maori would agree with him).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother person asked him if he had any suggestions about the Auckland Unitary Plan, which doesn’t appear to be a  cohesive plan (at which everyone applauded) and he gave as examples of great cities Barcelona - which he said is a great, dynamic and exciting city with little, tiny developments everywhere - and Genova.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll in all it was an interesting presentation. Knowing very little about architecture, although I like buildings, I really enjoyed his ideas and how he presented them."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2276652428316665951\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/auckland-writers-festival-why.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2276652428316665951"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2276652428316665951"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/auckland-writers-festival-why.html","title":"Auckland Writers Festival 2014: ‘Why Architecture (and Trains, Planes and Shops) Matter\" with Jonathan Glancey"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LTHlJrMbpUw\/U3lDSXfdTvI\/AAAAAAAAAaU\/_AT7YBqWJ-U\/s72-c\/Glancey_Jonathan.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3650797691840870067"},"published":{"$t":"2013-05-21T17:30:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-08-24T23:36:02.022+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Aorewa McLeod"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers and Readers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF 2013"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jacqueline Fahey"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Meme Churton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"memoirs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Remarkable Women at AWRF: Aorewa McLeod, Memé Churton, Jacqueline Fahey."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAna from Readers Services\u0026nbsp;was enthralled by a trio of \"Remarkable Women\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThree feisty women who have made their own destiny and have had very eventful lives.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003ESome\u0026nbsp;things they have in common, but they are also very different. The three came together for a fascinating and entertaining presentation at the Auckland Readers \u0026amp; Writers Festival.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OlSOs_BNvhY\/UZnF3NSP8JI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/kE94feS3tYE\/s1600\/McLeod+A.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OlSOs_BNvhY\/UZnF3NSP8JI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/kE94feS3tYE\/s200\/McLeod+A.jpg\" height=\"200\" pua=\"true\" width=\"148\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAorewa McLeod\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAorewa McLeod is a lesbian academic and poet.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003EShe taught for forty years at the \u003Cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003EUniversity\u003C\/st1:place\u003E of \u003Cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003EAuckland\u003C\/st1:placename\u003E\u003C\/st1:placetype\u003E.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAlthough she doesn’t look the shy type, she says she was very much so and had a bad case of nerves (she didn’t put it quite like that) before each of her lectures for 10 years. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMemé Churton’s memoirs read like a novel, although it’s all true.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHalf-Italian, half-Chinese, she grew up in \u003Cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003ETrieste\u003C\/st1:city\u003E and came to \u003Cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003ENew Zealand\u003C\/st1:place\u003E\u003C\/st1:country-region\u003E in 1950 when there wasn’t anybody here: “The streets were deserted”. She believes in “destiny”, and married a \u003Cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003ENew Zealand\u003C\/st1:country-region\u003E\u003C\/st1:place\u003E soldier. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--Cz-GbohbEM\/UZnGb-gKRWI\/AAAAAAAAALI\/IvxoBTNl8sw\/s1600\/Fahey-Jacqueline_cJacqui-Blanchard_2012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--Cz-GbohbEM\/UZnGb-gKRWI\/AAAAAAAAALI\/IvxoBTNl8sw\/s200\/Fahey-Jacqueline_cJacqui-Blanchard_2012.jpg\" height=\"200\" pua=\"true\" width=\"161\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJacqueline Fahey\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJacqueline Fahey is a painter, who inspires us through her work. She married Fraser McDonald and has written two memoirs, but she paints constantly. She doesn’t like to talk about “destiny”, thinks that’s a romantic idea. She “made her own destiny”.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAorewa went to live in \u003Cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003EEngland\u003C\/st1:country-region\u003E and worked there as a nurse\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;aid, but returned to \u003Cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003ENew Zealand\u003C\/st1:country-region\u003E\u003C\/st1:place\u003E to take care of her elderly mother. Her “destiny” would have been completely different if she hadn’t.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMemé had a lot of men friends constantly pursuing her; Jacqueline says she was the girl that boys took to parties when they wanted to give their mother a fright, but that, as was “very typical” in\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003Ethose days, she was a virgin for a long time. Aorewa, on the other hand, notes she was “constantly having sex” through the 1960’s. \u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vAwL--m4Xcg\/UZnGB4DCmJI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/z3pVKQPEMuw\/s1600\/Churton+v1.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vAwL--m4Xcg\/UZnGB4DCmJI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/z3pVKQPEMuw\/s200\/Churton+v1.jpeg\" height=\"132\" pua=\"true\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMemé Churton\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt one stage, the talk turned to dress and food. Memé dressed in Christian Dior, while Jacqueline claimed to spend 80 per cent of her time in gumboots. Aorewa was in England,and being colonial, had the advantage that nobody knew where she came from so she wasn’t cold-shouldered for her clothes. She was independent and washed her “smalls” regularly. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMemé's likings: coffee, smokes, and prosciutto, and when you are around her, these are always on hand.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; Jacqueline once worked in a coffee shop, was put in charge of the espresso machine and not being a practical person, wrecked it. While Meme smoked, Jacqueline drank. Aorewa drank too, because she says there was nowhere to meet but in the pubs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThree remarkable women who entertained us for one hour with their stories. They are all very different but what they have in common is their individuality and love for life. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-SG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhen you read their books: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2706825\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMemé\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2706825\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E : the three worlds of an Italian-Chinese New Zealander\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Memé Churton,\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2158652\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESomething for the birds\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2653255\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBefore you forget\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E both by Jacqueline Fahey and \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2742319\"\u003EWho was that woman anyway?: snapshots of a lesbian life\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/b\u003Eby Aorewa McLeod\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003Eyou’ll learn more fascinating things about them. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E-- Ana Worner\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3650797691840870067\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/remarkable-women-at-awrf-2013-aorewa.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3650797691840870067"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3650797691840870067"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/remarkable-women-at-awrf-2013-aorewa.html","title":"Remarkable Women at AWRF: Aorewa McLeod, Memé Churton, Jacqueline Fahey."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OlSOs_BNvhY\/UZnF3NSP8JI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/kE94feS3tYE\/s72-c\/McLeod+A.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-2817387535941764847"},"published":{"$t":"2012-05-12T03:00:00.001+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-12-23T23:59:54.465+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"A Train In Winter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF12"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Caroline Moorehead"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AWRF 2012: Caroline Moorehead on A Train in Winter"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003EAna from the Readers Services team went to hear Caroline Moorehead talk about her new book \u003Ci\u003EA Train in Winter\u003C\/i\u003E, in an event chaired by Carole Beu, from The Women’s Bookshop. She reports:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GTsmfBTRJvU\/UFQl2r9IVoI\/AAAAAAAAImQ\/NKhT2VKE1JQ\/s1600\/caroline_moorehead.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GTsmfBTRJvU\/UFQl2r9IVoI\/AAAAAAAAImQ\/NKhT2VKE1JQ\/s320\/caroline_moorehead.JPG\" width=\"109\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Caroline Moorehead grew up in a home where the only important thing was to write, so she and her brothers all became journalists. She is also a human rights journalist and advocate, who helped start a legal advice centre for refugees and asylum seekers in Cairo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe started by talking a little about Human Cargo and also her involvement as a human rights defender. She has been to Africa and many other countries, and presented a strong image of refugee camps and detention camps where children are penned together, and the profound psychological effect this has on them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EA Train in Winter\u003C\/i\u003E is about a group of 230 women working for the French resistance, who were arrested by French police, taken to a fort outside Paris, and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Apparently the book, which I haven’t read yet, is very graphic. Many women died very quickly after arrival, from the horror of what they had witnessed. What made it different for these women was their friendship. This is the main thrust of the novel and the reason why 49 of them survived. If one person was weak, they kept an extra crust of bread for her; at roll-call (where it was sometimes 20 degrees below zero) they formed themselves into squares and kept the weak or sick in the middle for protection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECaroline Moorehead thinks that ordinary people can make a difference. She says that refugees and asylum seekers are dominated by anxiety, and notes that one of the problems is that nobody asks them what are they interested in. Caroline Moorehead has made and is making a great difference to the lives and conditions of many of these people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2817387535941764847\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/awrf-2012-caroline-moorehead-on-train.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2817387535941764847"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2817387535941764847"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/awrf-2012-caroline-moorehead-on-train.html","title":"AWRF 2012: Caroline Moorehead on A Train in Winter"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GTsmfBTRJvU\/UFQl2r9IVoI\/AAAAAAAAImQ\/NKhT2VKE1JQ\/s72-c\/caroline_moorehead.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-9198220045375501450"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-15T03:00:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-12-24T01:40:00.932+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF11"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Climbing The Mango Trees: A Memoir Of Childhood In India"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cooking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Madhur Jaffrey"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Madhur Jaffrey at AWRF 2011"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003E\"How Madhur Jaffrey, author of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2138365\"\u003E'Climbing the Mango Trees: a memoir of a childhood in India'\u003C\/a\u003E, satisfied one librarian's appetite for food (talk)\" would be a good subtitle for this contribution to our AWRF 2011 coverage by Ana, Customer Service Librarian at the Central City Library, who joined hundreds of foodies at the ASB Theatre for this event, chaired by Alexa Johnston.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-P8EVOhvAQN0\/UFXA0PJq5AI\/AAAAAAAAIww\/fXa5yAtafq8\/s1600\/Madhur_Jaffrey.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-P8EVOhvAQN0\/UFXA0PJq5AI\/AAAAAAAAIww\/fXa5yAtafq8\/s320\/Madhur_Jaffrey.jpg\" width=\"128\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E No sooner had I sat down than the woman sitting beside me asked: “Is this the side for the vegetarians?” I told her there wasn’t actually going to be any food, that this was a presentation about food.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn event about food was the right thing for me to go to, as I just had a health check that meant I had had to fast from the night before.  I did have a coffee and a brioche straight after but it didn’t assuage my appetite before going over to the festival.  It was wonderful hearing Madhur Jaffrey talking about gharam-masala and delicious, mouthwatering food. She said you have to cook with intelligence, clarity and calmness. “What distinguishes Indian food is the magical use of spices.” Imagine her disappointment when she arrived in England in 1959 and was confronted with plain English fare. She made do with Bovril tea and Cadbury chocolate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt that time she didn’t really know how to cook. So she wrote to her mother and learnt to cook by correspondence, with her mother sending her very short, three line recipes. She says that if you have a good palate, you recall the flavours and bring the taste back. She started writing cookery books and made a modest income. She realised that she had to be published if she wanted to get somewhere.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt this point, BBC radio was going to do a cookery series and they required audio tapes. So she got a few students to her little flat, put a little tape recorder on top of her fridge and gave them cooking lessons. Because the result was so confusing, she decided it was best to pretend to be doing a cookery class while she was on her own at home and that was so much better: “We’ll put a bit more pepper there,” she said as she sat in front of her tape recorder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen she moved to America (where she now lives), an influential friend helped to get her a job with The New York Times writing about food. She still goes to India about once a year; she says she has always felt like an explorer going to little corners of the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI liked her relaxed style and she gave a multitude of tips on cooking and life in general.  For example, she says in India it’s always better to enjoy wonderful food that has been cooked at home, rather than eating out. So, when you are there, make sure you get yourself invited to someone’s house.  And one final pearl of wisdom: “Don’t use ‘lite’ anything. Much better to use the real thing, and exercise.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- Ana Worner \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9198220045375501450\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/madhur-jaffrey-at-awrf-2011.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/9198220045375501450"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/9198220045375501450"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/madhur-jaffrey-at-awrf-2011.html","title":"Madhur Jaffrey at AWRF 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-P8EVOhvAQN0\/UFXA0PJq5AI\/AAAAAAAAIww\/fXa5yAtafq8\/s72-c\/Madhur_Jaffrey.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-4665149415230067777"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-16T02:30:00.002+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-11-22T18:44:00.986+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anne Salmond"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers and Readers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWRF10"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Thomas Keneally"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AWRF10: Anne Salmond \u0026 Thomas Keneally"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAna from Readers Services enjoyed Anne Salmond and Thomas Keneally's stories at their first AWRF 2010 event, ie\u0026nbsp;the pure state (Kim-less) one. She shares a few with us.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo historians talking about two different countries but with one thing in common: they are both passionate about history, and like to bring forgotten stories back to life.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EAnne Salmond went to Auckland University to study Maori history and Anthropology. There she met Eruera and Amiria Stirling, an amazing couple, and spent a long time with them talking and listening to people recounting oral history and talking about their ancestors on the marae.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EThomas Keneally was a schoolteacher in Sydney and was studying law but gave up everything to become a writer. He said he did this because he was ignorant and didn’t know much about publishing houses. He likes writing novels because he says he can tell lies if he wants.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EThey took turns presenting, and switched between Australia and New Zealand. What they do as historians is “time travelling” because, as Salmond says, you look at a map many times and try to guess where Captain Cook’s ship was positioned, but this is not enough. “You need to go to the places and smell the smells”. Keneally agrees with her, but this got him into trouble when he was writing “Towards Asmara” about the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and he had to go there, even though, he says, he is a coward.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003ESalmond said that New Zealand and Australia were very different countries before the Europeans arrived. She has always been very curious about the first meeting between Maori and Europeans, when Captain Cook’s ship “The Endeavour” arrived. He came to shore with other sailors in small boats, having left four sailors guarding the ship, but they were surprised by Maori and attacked with spears. One of the Maori was shot. And that's the way it was, in those days.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EKeneally\u0026nbsp;pointed out that\u0026nbsp;New Zealand had the Treaty of Waitangi but there was never a treaty in Australia. In Australia the Aboriginals had a “land title”. There were two reactions by the Aboriginals to becoming an occupied people. On the one hand, they wanted to “enchant” the Europeans away, make them disappear. On the other, they wanted to attack them.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EKeneally spent a long time researching and writing about Irish convicts, and told how “even very obscure Irish peasants become alive for you” until \"they\u0026nbsp;are drinking beer with you\".\u0026nbsp; For Salmond, too, after reading all the logs of Captain Cook and his adventures the people in his voyages become a presence.\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4665149415230067777\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/awrf10-friday-may-14-anne-salmond.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/4665149415230067777"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/4665149415230067777"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/awrf10-friday-may-14-anne-salmond.html","title":"AWRF10: Anne Salmond \u0026 Thomas Keneally"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});