Bedtime Stories

The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is a research centre devoted to understanding creativity and a cultural hub where leading literary, musical and multimedia scholars and artists can learn from one another and collaborate.For more details:https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/about/

The J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

Heather Taylor Johnson, Chloe Hooper and Peter Goldsworthy in conversation about writing ... about the biggest subject of them all.

The University of Adelaide, Ingkarni Wardli Building Room 715

From the feverish imaginings of the romantic consumptives to Susan Sontag’s provocative treatise Illness as Metaphor, illness has always been a catalyst for thought. When writer Chloe Hooper’s partner was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she had to find a way to tell their two young sons. By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. In her new Bedtime Story – part memoir, part manual – she asks whether such news can be broken as a bedtime tale. Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? At around the same time, writer, doctor and JMCCCP member Peter Goldsworthy was diagnosed with myeloma. He asked himself what sort of lessons cancer could teach him. In his memoir-in-progress, The Cancer Finishing School, Goldsworthy draws on tragic, comic and transcendent stories from his patients who had been there first.JMCCCP title holder Heather Taylor Johnson has written lucidly about her own chronic illness, and in this public forum she draws two of Australia’s most celebrated writers, Hooper and Goldsworthy, into conversation about the biggest subject of them all.

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