Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Pornstars, Princesses and Lost Boys
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In The Lost Boys, Sam de Brito takes the pulse of Aussie manhood and looks at a generation of men who have lost their way. In Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire shows the way in which young women are now trapped between these roles. They talk about gender in contemporary Australia with Meredith Griffiths.

Panel  |  Current Affairs, Fiction
Participants
Emily Maguire, Sam De Brito, Meredith Griffiths (facilitator)

When
Saturday, May 24 2008
16:00 - 17:00

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 4
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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SAM DE BRITO (LOCAL)de Brito, Sam
Sam de Brito was born in 1969. He has spent almost 20 years writing for TV, film and newspapers. His Sydney Morning Herald blog, All Men are Liars, expounds on the business of being a bloke, while his first book, No Tattoos Before You're Thirty, offers advice to his unborn children. The Lost Boys is his first novel.

EMILY MAGUIRE (LOCAL)Maguire, Emily
Emily Maguire is the author of the novels The Gospel According to Luke and Taming the Beast. Her articles and essays on sex, religion, culture and literature have been widely published, including in The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith REVIEW, The Observer and The Age. Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power and Identity is her first non-fiction book. Emily lives in Sydney.

www.emilymaguire.typepad.com

also appearing at...
105: Princesses and Pornstars
291: The Future of Feminism

MEREDITH GRIFFITHS (LOCAL)
Meredith Griffiths is a news presenter on Triple J.

also appearing at...
83: Scar Tissue
286: Enjoy the Trip