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'Staying with the Trouble' single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 'Staying with the Trouble'
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'Percy Grainger walked to avoid self-flagellation. David Sedaris walked to placate his Fitbit. Virginia Woolf walked the streets of London, and later the South Downs, endlessly: because she loved it, because she was walking her dogs, because she needed to think clearly. For Henry Thoreau, every walk was a sort of 'crusade'. Sarah Marquis, who walked 16,000 kilometres over three years, sought a return to an essential self: 'You become what nature needs you to be: this wild thing.' Will Self began walking after he gave up heroin, though in his novel Walking to Hollywood (2010) the protagonist walks not to escape addiction but because he fears he has Alzheimer's. This feels familiar. My brother jokes about starting a group called Running Away from Dementia. Sometimes, catching sight of my reflected posture on a walk, I wonder if I am doing the same thing, walking away from fate. If so, could one ever walk fast enough?' (Publication abstract)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 371 May 2015 8646512 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 24-29
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2015 Geordie Williamson (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2015 8973575 2015 anthology essay

    'In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain.' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2015
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