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'From the suicide bombing of Glasgow Airport and the flooding of England to the horse flu and the Chinese earthquake and the Bhutto assassination, from the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, Ruddock, Olmert, Blair, Musharreff, Mugabe, Costello, Nelson, Buswell and Bush, from the campaign insults of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin to the great economic meltdown and the night of Obama's audacious victory, Bob Ellis took notes, attended funerals, went to the cricket, wrote mordant midnight verse, walked his dogs and pondered on humanity's most formative interim in quite a while.
'No better meditation on the Iraq war's backwash and the propaganda weapons of the Right has been thus far attempted, no wittier essay on human mortality, the planet's fate, and the melancholy harvest of Australia's most rancorous political years.' (Publisher's website)
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Sparring Writers Avoid the Punch Line
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian , 25 September 2009; (p. 20) -
Untitled
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 27) -
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2009
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— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 26-27) -
Nowra Caught in Slips
2009
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correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 26) Responding to Nowra's review of his And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Bob Ellis claims that Nowra reviewed his character rather than his work. Ellis states that there are at least 58 errors in Nowra's review and he challenges Nowra to a public poetry reading and a public political debate. -
Or Words To That Effect
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 34-35)
— Review of And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change 2009 single work prose
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A Not-So-Virile Age of Politics
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 May 2009; (p. 30)
— Review of And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change 2009 single work prose -
Making a Case for the Unexamined Life
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 4 no. 5 2009; (p. 6-7)
— Review of And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change 2009 single work prose -
Buzz Bbehind the Party Lines
2009
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 - 14 June 2009; (p. 23)
— Review of And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change 2009 single work prose -
Or Words To That Effect
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 34-35)
— Review of And So It Went : Night Thoughts in a Year of Change 2009 single work prose -
Nowra Caught in Slips
2009
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 26) Responding to Nowra's review of his And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Bob Ellis claims that Nowra reviewed his character rather than his work. Ellis states that there are at least 58 errors in Nowra's review and he challenges Nowra to a public poetry reading and a public political debate. -
Untitled
2009
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 26-27) -
Untitled
2009
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 27) -
Sparring Writers Avoid the Punch Line
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 25 September 2009; (p. 20)