AWW23: Creme de la Phlegm - Melinda Harvey, Jeanine Leane, Caroline Overington & Beejay Silcox

Chair: Catriona Menzies-Pike


It was Goethe who declared "call the dog, he is a reviewer".
Reviewers are almost universally pilloried as partisan,
ill-informed mediocrities fuelled by malice. What leads to this
perception and why are they so reviled? We consider the state of
Australia’s reviewing culture and the impact of backscratching
and sycophancy on its present condition. The editor of
the Sydney Review of Books, Catriona Menzies-Pike, is joined
by Melinda Harvey, Jeanine Leane, Caroline Overington and Beejay
Silcox.


Event details: Tue 07 Mar, 5:00pm on the West
Stage