“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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23 November 2016

THIS BLOKE IS OBVIOUSLY UNEMPLOYABLE


A dozen years back, Eric Beecher and Jane Gribble ran a hot little half-A4 stapled weekly called The Reader. Deputy Editor Jane Nethercote called and asked about the nature of writing on wine. I was delighted at the accuracy they employed in publishing the consequent quotes. That's rare. The Reader became Crikey which is, in a way, in the same stable as InDaily, for which I currently write. This interview was published on Friday 22 October 2004.

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