The June edition of Meanjin includes Sian Prior on shyness, Rachel Buchanan on the impact of seeing the work of artist, Len Lye, when she was still a child and Marcus Westbury on the ways in which funding bodies shape our cultural lives. Mark Dapin, still in recovery from interviewing Gordon Ramsay a year ago, writes on the perils of the celebrity feature; Michael Williams interviews Christos Tsolkas; Colette Vella describes the evolution of the relationship between book editors, agents and authors; Lynne Spender asks whether intellectual property can be owned; Joseph Pearson explores online identity; Craig McGregor remembers what it was like to live in Harlem in the sixties and Ross Gibson gives us a fresh take on Patyegarang and William Dawes. Includes fiction by Bruce Pascoe, Mark O'Flynn, Paul Mitchell, Kristen Thornell and Caroline Lee.