“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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16 November 2014

BALANCE IN AUSTRALIAN WINE BY GEORGE

Now the Australian footy season's over, our mighty gladiators of The Boot have time to practise other skills and secretly brush up on their organoleptic appreciations. 

As onetime coach of the great players of Hawker, George Grainger Aldridge (left) knows better than any how delicate such a discipline can be for  the true masters of the art. Which gives us all a chance to get on with new creations ... Don't forget George's exhibition of new landscapes and sculptures at The Garage Bar at 163 Waymouth Street on Light Square next Friday  November 21st at 6:30PM. There will also be very fine mosiac work and hardwood timber sculpture by Maria Cmielweski and Jodie Willman. The show's called The Way We See, and will be much the better for your attendance. These memories are from his last show there, when we launched Evidence of Vineyards on Mars ... photos by Dirty Dave Hinds   


   

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