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Gay Bilson Gay Bilson i(A85736 works by) (a.k.a. Gay Morris Bilson)
Born: Established: 1944 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Seductive Sydney : The Completion of Louis Nowra’s Trilogy Gay Bilson , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 450 2023; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Sydney : A Biography Louis Nowra , 2022 multi chapter work biography 'I recently learned (was it from Martin Amis?) that ‘pulchritude’ is a synonym for ‘beauty’. How can such an ugly word be associated with beauty? I feel the same way about ‘Sydney’, named by Governor Phillip for the British Secretary of State who had suggested an Australian colony. An ugly word that is the name of a beautiful topography, a geologically complex and weathered arrangement of water and land, and more water and land, and a spread of fragmented populations that are in many cases discrete, so discrete that where a person lives and works in this city, defines and confines them. Infrastructure and transport must cope as best they can, and with as much money as government can muster.' (Introduction) 
1 ‘Pill Me Harder’ Dementia’s Ventriloquist Gay Bilson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 32)
— Review of The Grass Hotel Craig Sherborne , 2022 single work novel

'In How Fiction Works (2008), James Wood examines how novelists write characters and allow us to sympathise with them. He refers to the philosopher Thomas Nagel’s now famous question, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ Nagel reckoned we cannot know, can only imagine what it would be like to behave like a bat. We can’t know ‘what it is like for a bat to be a bat’. (Introduction)
1 Bird Brains Gay Bilson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 341 2012; (p. 46-47)
— Review of Nest : The Art of Birds Janine Burke , 2012 single work prose
1 I, My, and Me Gay Bilson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 25-26)
— Review of A Cook's Life Stephanie Alexander , 2012 single work autobiography
1 Kitchen Stories Gay Bilson , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 127 2011; (p. 65-73)
1 Don's Conundrum Gay Bilson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 35, 36)
— Review of Adelaide Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2011 single work prose
1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Food Gay Bilson , 2011 single work prose
— Appears in: Voracious : The Best New Australian Food Writing 2011; (p. 14-24)
1 Here's Trouble Gay Bilson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Trouble : Evolution of a Radical : Selected Writings 1970-2010 Kate Jennings , 2010 selected work essay poetry prose
1 I Am What I Am: Gay Bilson Gay Bilson , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 13 December 2009; (p. 8)
1 Whitmanesque Journeyer Gay Bilson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 311 2009; (p. 19-20)
— Review of The Red Highway Nicolas Rothwell , 2009 single work prose
1 Elegance of Pen Gay Bilson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 308 2009; (p. 11-12)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2008 David Marr , 2008 anthology essay
1 1 y separately published work icon On Digestion Gay Bilson , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2008 Z1536274 2008 single work essay
1 Sharman, Shaman, Showman Gay Bilson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 11-12)
— Review of Blood and Tinsel : A Memoir Jim Sharman , 2008 single work autobiography
1 The ABC of Banana Phalluses Gay Bilson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 298 2008; (p. 25-26) Gay Bilson comments on an episode of the First Tuesday Book Club in which she joined Jennifer Byrne, Marion Halligan, Mikey Robbins and an unnamed Triple J Radio worker in discussing food writing.
1 The Fulton Legacy Gay Bilson , 2007 single work biography
— Appears in: Margaret Fulton : A Celebration 2007; (p. 23-32)
1 Vocal Jewellery Gay Bilson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 295 2007; (p. 16-17)
— Review of Muck Craig Sherborne , 2007 single work autobiography
1 'Forget the Housework' Gay Bilson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 293 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Autobiography of My Mother Meg Stewart , 1985 single work biography
1 Family Ties Bind Tight Gay Bilson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2007; (p. 10)
— Review of Spiral Road Adib Khan , 2007 single work novel
1 Gay Bilson Replies: Gay Bilson , 2007 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 288 2007; (p. 5)
1 1 All about Jenny Gay Bilson , 2006-2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 287 2006-2007; (p. 17-18)
— Review of A Big Life Jenny Kee , Samantha Trenoweth , 2006 single work autobiography
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