Contents
FOREWORD HELEN GARNER
IDEAS IN EXPERIENCE
‘I cutta the balls off!’: becoming a professional writer
Sociophobia
Warhola
The tone of two cities
Rooty Hill revisited
BEING GAY TALESE
Pork pies, kitsch and high society, the Walford way
‘Maaaarvellous!’
The word of God comes to you in a white Mercedes
SHORTS 1
Too many kisses
Sex, books and influenza
I did but see her
Light 1
Light 2
East & west
Autumn water
Ad lib: zwishen den flaggen
Interpreting awe
Grey hat dream
Naomi Watts or not
THE SPECTRUM ESSAYS
Fame and other bruises
Religion: stand up if you believe
Across the bridge between youth and age
Art in the time of science
God’s dance party remix
MUSIC
The lone trumpeter
Ten Part Invention & Andrea Keller
Meeting Miles (and Gil)
Ornette Coleman in Sydney
Sonny Rollins at the Sydney Opera House
WHEELS
That bus crowd
Take me back to Gravy Junction
Take me higher
Bike! Bike!
View from the ward
SHORTS 2
Awesome
The perfumes of the night
Rain 1
Rain 2
Rain 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIOGRAPHY