There is a scene in Annie Lord’s novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who has spent time at a pub or nightclub recently. Daisy and Maya, two best friends in their mid-20s, are lamenting the paltry state of the dating market. “It’s just shit out there,” Daisy says. “Every time we go out there’s, like, one decent single…
Recently I was at a film event where I was introduced to a big producer by a very nice actor. The actor said, “this is Patrick, he has a debut novel coming out soon.” The producer looked me up and down and said, “You took your time.” Her comic timing – unlike my literary timing…
David Malouf, a writer whose poetic vision of Australia’s dual nature — a nation defined by its British Empire heritage, yet sheltering in an untamed outback — played out across prizewinning novels, short stories, poems and opera librettos, died on Wednesday in Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia. He was 92. His death, in a hospital,…
