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The craft of biography writing (Part 1 of 2)
In June 2025 I gave a talk at the Biography Workshop at the Australian National University, Canberra. I drew on my experience writing a biography of Australian author and intellectual, Frank Moorhouse, in order to outline three principles r...
On the Emperor's New Clothes
Consider the following:
1. Do you know the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes?
2. How did you come to know the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes?
3. How does the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes end?
Over t...
On Archive Fever
Image sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Wellcome Collection
Two, related things to share. The first is a podcast I was on last year, called Archive Fever, discussing my unaward winning – and now widely unavailable – Frank Moor...
On literacy, the value of reading, and the free circulation of written materials
The Mitchell Library, Sydney, 1923
A couple of months ago I had to give a brief talk at the State Library New South Wales because my unaward winning book, Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths, was shortlisted for the 2025 National Biography Awar...
Gogol v Melville
Recently, I posted two play adaptations of the 19th century short stories, Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat” and Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. This is just a brief explanation why: I have for decades now considered these two cla...
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