Broad discussions about ideas and intellectual history regarding literary culture and democracy – these public things.

Includes also an occasional series on the life and work of Australian author, Frank Moorhouse, a figure whose 2-volume biography I have been working on for several years. The first volume will be published in November 2023 by Penguin Random House.

This occasional series will include outtakes from the project, and reflections on the art of biography writing, archives, publishing, media and other topics that also interested and occupied the critical imagination of Frank Moorhouse.

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