He?s far from the only person I?ve been talking to as our bureau gets going, but our conversation and his follow-up email stuck with me.
In addition to my regular roundup of recent Times articles, and a recommendation from our own Jacqueline Williams, both found below, I figured I?d share some of that conversation.
Not many writers I know can craft coherence while running through (in order, in the first 1,000 words) BuzzFeed, Gutenberg, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, Kafka, Goethe and Shakespeare.
Suddenly grateful (never again will I feel a need to read ?The Recognitions?), I called Richard in Tasmania to discuss which pitfalls to watch out for as we expand our coverage of Australia and what to pursue with zeal.
When I read Richard Flanagan?s essay ?Does Writing Matter?? from October?s issue of The Monthly, I was blown away ? not just by the force of his argument, which I?d be a fool to try to sum up here because I?d only water it down, but also by the way he brought readers along.
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