Readings/Writings Author:Greg Dening Greg Dening has prepared a collection of wonderfully accessible reflections on the meaning and significance of the acts of reading and writing. The subjects of these reflections are varied indeed: Gauguin's House of Pleasure on Hiva Oa island; the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington; a book about Simpson and his donkey and the making of myt... more »h, and much more. Readings/Writings is a new genre of work for Greg Dening. It will situate him in the ranks not only of great Australian historians, where his reputation is already firmly established, but also of great Australian writers.« less