Cathy Perkins

Author of biography The Shelf Life of Zora Cross: 'a beguiling narrative ... splendidly told' (Australian Book Review).

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

Thanks to @MonashPub for the lovely b-format edition of The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, to @dettebrennan for introducing the book so perfectly in her foreword, and to the reviewers quoted on the cover and prelims. It will be published 1 February.

[Monash University Publishing @MonashPub]

New format of 'The Shelf Life of Zora Cross' by @cclperkins is coming next month!

Happy days.

Read more about this wonderful book:

https://t.co/gnXtmG6Ppq

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

Sorting out footnotes is a kind of reverse striptease: 'She comes on stripped and dresses on stage' (Wireless Weekly, 13 December 1941, p6) https://t.co/PfuUFxKMqA

[School of Humanities @UsydSoH]

Upcoming Friends of the Library talk at @Sydney_Library by Cathy Perkins on Australian writer Zora Cross, who caused a sensation in 1917 with her poetry.
Registration is free!
https://t.co/pmWXke8oOs
@ArtSS_Sydney @usydsace

[Inside Story @insidestorymag]

Delighted to see three Inside Story contributors shortlisted for the #NSWPHA Australian History Prize…

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

I was interviewed by Gabriella Kelly-Davies for her podcast Biographers in Conversation about writing The Shelf Life of Zora Cross @MonashPub - I appreciate Gabriella's love of biography as a genre and recommend her other interviews, on podcast platforms: https://t.co/jb9BRYSrba

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

Flexing a book signing bicep in the Library Shop

[State Library of NSW @statelibrarynsw]

Library editor & author @cclperkins stopped by to sign copies of ‘The Shelf Life of Zora Cross’ new edition. Her biography on this rebellious literary sensation was inspired by her research at the Library! #IWD

Grab your signed copy from the Library Shop: https://t.co/u3ngSE9mQj

[Monash University Publishing @MonashPub]

Discover the new edition of The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by @cclperkins this #IWD2024. Order another book, enter the coupon code INTWD24 at the checkout, and you'll save 20% discount AND receive free shipping.

Celebrate IWD with a good read or two ...

https://t.co/ZuVpyfajYH

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

'This image of ... Zora, her dress stained with ink, was so startling it was as if I was meeting her in person... a testament to Perkins’s skill in drawing from her research the resonant moments of Zora’s life that give the reader a sense of intimacy and direct connection.'

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

To mark the reissue of The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, @MonashPub has posted Vanessa Berry's launch speech: 'writing can be a way of speaking to the future' https://t.co/SyqV3DQ1Di

[Monash University Publishing @MonashPub]

Our new releases for February 2024.

The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins (new edition/format)
Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews (new format)
For Social Betterment: Social Work Education in Australia by Jane Miller

Available in bookstores now.

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

A few things that caught my eye in the Dale Spender papers @statelibrarynsw yesterday

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

Researching feminism in the 1980s. A good way to start the year

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

This brilliant book well deserves a reissue! If you didn't read it the first time, read it this time.

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

'Strange Paths is as much about changes in Australian print culture and sexual attitudes as it is about Moorhouse’s life.' @SusanLever1 in @insidestorymag on vol 1 of Matthew Lamb's biography of Frank Moorhouse: https://t.co/2twQ2gUfeu

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

My short essay on a portrait of Solomon Wiseman from the beautiful book Reading the Rooms, edited by @cfwriter and @RNevilleSLNSW https://t.co/SYBu8biyWS

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

@DylanhHyde Thanks @DylanhHyde - that would be great to see and I’ll contact you

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

I appreciate that the Australian writer Oriel Gray's friends Norma Andresen and Moira McAuliffe gave SLNSW and SLV the letters they received from her over three decades – the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. I wonder if other correspondents, or their families, have saved her letters.

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

This morning I was wondering why so many women in the 1940s were called Norma, and realised it must be after the silent film star Norma Talmadge (1894-1957), who reportedly told fans after she had retired: 'Get away, dears, I don't need you any more and you don't need me.'

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

@MireilleJuchau Oui!

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

People working out of Marrickville library today: a well-known feminist historian, a well-known cartoonist, a well-known journalist/novelist. It's like a silent version of Les Deux Magots

[Cathy Perkins @cclperkins]

@lia_perkinss exactly ...