HeyJaredStraying for the Morsel
A guide to the Australian middlebrow, from @timwintoncellectuals (cover photo courtesy of Nick Santoro)
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Australia is Not Real (opens the original)
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This is a piece I wrote for a major outlet over in the States, but which for various reasons didn’t see the light of day. I’ve decided to preserve the apostrophe to the yankee reader, but have taken out a discussion of the Left at the end which repeated points that you’ve already heard from me here. Instead, I’ve included a couple of paras on economic outlook and the spectrum of responses from national parties. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
The Ocean in a Mutchkin (opens the original)
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This is a piece I wrote for the newly published volume Ayont the Thistle, celebrating the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s (né Christopher Murray Grieve) famous poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. It’s worth reading the poem, written in lallans Scots, for its wonderful sticky prosody and galloping imagery. But my piece was also about wrestling with a great literary figure and the joyful internationalism that buoys culture in places like Edinburgh. <a class="image-link i
Three Directions in Modern Pop Music (opens the original)
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Australia Mentioned: The Vegas Residency of the World (opens the original)
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Two friends, in a flurry of fingers, sent me the same screenshots this week. Merve Emre, serious critic of serious writing, podcaster and New Yorker feuilleton, had given an interview to Kill Your Darlings. She had said many interesting things about the polarisation of literary publishing, about the dying art of reading and about the shifting relationsh… Read more
The Cinema of Trump II (opens the original)
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