8-July-08

1. Tonight: Bare Knuckle (Smackdown) playwright wrestling, 7.30, Courthouse Hotel, North Melbourne. Put on by Melbourne Dramatists, of which Ross Mueller is one of the founding members.

2. Guardian blogs: Do we protest too much about where we write? Checkout Paragraph.

3. And the Guardian writers' rooms – the order of Andrew O'Hagan, the sheer redness of AL Kennedy!

4. Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia

5. I'm looking forward to Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle

6. And Joseph O'Neill's Netherland

7. The Oregon Literary Review