“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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25 February 2017

PEACE IN THE VALLEY: DANNY AT THE EX

The party gully of Rundle Street, East End Adelaide, was actually jam-packed with reveling Fringistes last night but I caught Danny Moody, Exeter Hotel night boss/chatelaine, managing to squeeze in a quiet moment. Not even Bacchus or Pan could count the libations that have flowed from the hands of this cool river to her people ... photo©Philip White

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