Mozart not PC

The Australian media is not alone in publishing the more bonkers essays, reviews and opinions, such as Jacqueline Malley’s article today from the Sydney Morning Herald. She’s having a crack at Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. It’s the story of Figaro and his fiancée Susanna and two servants of the Count Almaviva, who live in the…

Frank Morehouse RIP

If you blinked you would have missed that one of Australia’s greatest writers passed away recently. Frank Morehouse was top of the heap in the 1970s. I thought him a better writer than that bitter old crone, Patrick White. Morehouse was eclipsed by the rise of Peter Carey, Tim Winton and what I euphemistically call…

Only in Adelaide

I sometimes use Adelaide (South Australia), as a backdrop to my stories. It is one of the weirdest and scariest places on earth. It’s known for sex crimes and where ideas go to die. The story below is par for the course. “Former Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes says he was left feeling distressed and…

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Hemingway doco

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest and most influential writers in American literature. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s three-part, documentary series, HEMINGWAY is one of the best I’ve seen (SBS iView). It weaves together Hemingway’s biography with excerpts from his fiction, non-fiction and personal correspondence. The film unpacks the mythology surrounding Hemingway – cultivated…