“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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02 December 2013

SIMMERING: UNHOLY TEXAS-OZ ALLIANCE

The author with cobber Kinky Friedman, the Governor of the Heart of Texas, with whom I hadn't communed for far too long ... we didn't do anything wrong, but it seemed to take most of the week ... in my introduction I declared he was a man fluent in all sins, a description he had no need to rise to ... we share gastronomic interests ... we're planning more meals next year ... watch the religious notices ... photo Elene Kontonikas

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