d r i n k s t e r: GRANGE BOOK READY FOR THE BINDERS

“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)

13 September 2013

GRANGE BOOK READY FOR THE BINDERS

A Year In The Life Of Grange, the beautiful big book I've been working on with photographer Milton Wordley, who is the publisher, is finally coming off the press at Finsbury Green in Adelaide. Whew. That's my birth vintage above, thrusting its bonnie chest out over the Big Apple. Sally Marden was text editor, John Nowland the designer. Watch DRINKSTER for release details! These photographs copyright Milton Wordley

5 comments:

KARRA YERTA WINES said...: Oh, wow! HUGE congratulations to you and Milton!; September 15, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Moredsir said...: Look forward to it as I know it will be the true story, and possibly not quite the one Pennies would like to have sanitised it to.; September 15, 2013 at 6:18 PM
Pat said...: wow, whitey! congrats on finishing the 'grange' book! this does, indeed, look like it's gonna be a beautiful book! well done - what a lot of work! can't wait to see it, buy it and get it autographed! xx; September 16, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Anonymous said...: good work; September 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM
Timothy John said...: Bravo!...beautiful words...beautiful pictures...
my type of book. Cheers old son.; September 24, 2013 at 7:21 PM

CONFESSIONS

"After enough years newspapermen begin to pall on other newspapermen; they begin to take their good qualities for granted and wince at their shortcomings, of which the most common are a vanity that sometimes borders on the thespian and a sort of perpetual mental adolescence that I think stems from starting a fresh story every day or every week or month and never having time to get to the bottom of anything. They forget that newspapermen as a class have a yearning for truth as involuntary as a hophead’s addiction to junk. The question of whether the junkie really loves hop is academic; he can’t get along without it. A newspaperman may write a lie to hold his job, but he won’t believe it, and the necessity outrages him so that he craves truth all the more thereafter. A few newspapermen lie to get on in the world, but it outrages them, too, and I have never known a dishonest journalist who wasn’t patently an unhappy bastard."

A.J. Liebling,

war correspondent,

New Yorker,

Algiers,

January 1942.

“Ale, especially that made from barley, clogs the sinews, causes headache and congestion of the head, yet it overstimulates the action of the kidneys, and, when drunk to excess, lowers the temperature. That, however, which is brewed from wheat, and is flavoured with mint and parsley, is judged better for everybody. Still, in the case of persons exposed to the sun’s heat, in feverish conditions and sultry weather, its use is inadvisable.”

From The Science Of Dining – A Medieval Treatise on the Hygiene of the Table and the Laws of Health, translated from the Latin by Arthur S. Way D. Lit, MacMillan, 1936. Previous translation The Schoolmaster, 1583. Original text from Mohammed ibn Zakariya al Razi, Arabic medical writer (865-925AD).

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13 September 2013

GRANGE BOOK READY FOR THE BINDERS

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