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All Shops Open 7 Days Carlton 309 Lygon St 9347 6633 Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd 9819 1917 Malvern 185 Glenferrie Rd 9509 1952 Port Melbourne 253 Bay St 9681 9255 St Kilda 112 Acland St 9525 3852 email [email protected] shop online at www.readings.com.au Christopher Hitchens NOW FASTER AND WITH MORE TITLES AND REVIEWS gets his ass kicked From The hard-drinking, chain-smok- the Editor ing, waterboarding, straight-talk- WWW.READINGS.COM.AU Aussies come home ing journalist was beaten up by street thugs in Lebanon recently. BOOKS CDS DVDS EVENTS INTERVIEWS REVIEWS Chrissy Sharp, general manager of Sadler’s Wells dance theatre On his way out of a bar, he spot- in London, has been newly ap- ted a poster for skinhead group SEE HUNDREDS OF BOOK, pointed director of Melbourne’s SNNP and wrote on it ‘F**k the SNNP’. Some members of CD & DVD REVIEWS, READ new Centre for Books, Writ- ing and Ideas – following the the group were standing nearby OUR EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR and attacked him. ‘I was on the INTERVIEWS, FIND EVENT last-minute decision of Caro Llewellyn to stay in New York ground,’ Hitchens said, ‘and INFORMATION ~ AS WELL as director of the PEN Festival, getting it in the head.’ Counter- AS SEARCH, BROWSE, citing ‘personal reasons’. Sharp insurgency blog Abu Muqawma AND BUY ONLINE. is originally from Sydney, and noted sympathetically that her impressive CV includes while Hitchens’s actions were roles as general manager of the politically commendable, they Sydney Festival, head of policy weren’t exactly sensible. ‘Seri- for SBS and executive director ously, would you roll into East of the Australian Writers’ Guild. L.A. and start writing over gang And out of the darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and signs? I mean, is that smart?’ he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us. Centre chairman Eric Beecher says that Sharp is ‘unquestion- Pride and Predator ably one of Australia's most suc- Word is, Elton John's film com- When The Hayseed Chronicles, cessful and formidable arts and pany are working on their own an obscure series of children’s cultural leaders’. Not everyone books, become world-famous, remake of Jane Austen’s best- millions of readers debate the in London will be sad to see her loved novel: Pride and Predator. significance of that enigmatic go, though – back in 2005, UK ‘It felt like a fresh and funny way last line and the shadowy figure arts writer Norman Lebrecht to blow apart the done-to-death of Mr Toppit who dominates bemoaned ex-pat Australians’ Jane Austen genre by literally the books. The author, Arthur domination of Britain’s major dropping this alien into the mid- Hayman, mown down by a cultural institutions, naming dle of a costume drama, where concrete truck in Soho, never Sharp and husband Michael he stalks and slashes to horrific reaps the benefits of the books’ Lynch (former chief executive effect,’ said Rocket Films’ David success. Instead, the legacy of London’s South Bank) as Furnish. Interesting. passes to his widow, Martha, ‘top pair’. ‘Privately, they call and her children – the fragile themselves asylum seekers from Posthumous Updike Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly the suburban dullness that immortalized as Luke Hayseed, Grand old man of letters John the central character of his Australia has become under Updike died in January at the father’s books. John Howard's conservative age of 76. But it’s not the end government,’ wrote Lebrecht for fans of his writing – he has But others want their share, of the slew of top Australian two books due out this year. He particularly Laurie, who comforts Arthur as he lies dying, and has arts managers. ‘Their country submitted his final poetry col- a mysterious agenda of her own that changes all their lives. For needs them more than we ever buried deep in the books lie secrets which threaten to be revealed lection (which included ‘On Re- as the family begins to crumble under the heavy burden of their will,’ he continued. quiem’, a poem speculating on inheritance. At Sadler’s Wells, Sharp had the public reaction to his death) six months to save the troubled to publishers just weeks before institution from going broke his death. And his first short – which she did. Sounds like story collection since 2000, My a very good person indeed to Father’s Tears (on the subject of For the latest news and subscriber only benefits sign up old age) will be available in June. to our monthly Penguin newsletter at penguin.com.au/readmore have heading Melbourne’s newest literary institution. —Jo Case

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OPENS MARCH 5 OPENS MARCH 12 Make a purchase at Readings for your chance C I N E M A 380 LYGON ST CARLTON to receive one of 25 double passes to either film. www.cinemanova.com.au 2 ThisLiterary news of all kinds,Month’s award winners, News Readings shop news, and more. wiley sale Writing at Readings 2007 to complete the first drafts. that we can now announce that Uni's back, After becoming through the generous donations The other recipient is Fiona and to disillusioned of all who attended the event, Wood, a successful script writer celebrate with her we reached our target, mak- whose credits include Something Readings and successful ing just over $3500. The extra in the Air, Always Greener, The Wiley are corporate career, money donated will be given to Secret Life of Us, Neighbours, offering a Readings Port the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal. Packed to the Rafters, and chil- 20% discount on a selected Melbourne Big thanks to everyone who dren's dramas Sleepover Club range of psychology and customer Kasey attended and donated. For those and Silver Sun. Fiona is currently philosophy titles throughout Edwards, a management who missed the event (or just working on a novel for young March. From classics to recent consultant with a six-figure want to relive it) you can listen readers, for which she received gems, there's sure to salary and a jet-setting life, to the podcast of the evening the 2008 Eleanor Dark Fellow- be something to get your decided to investigate the online at www.readings.com.au. ship for Fiction to work on the brain working overtime. reasons why she was fed up. manuscript. The promotion is running That soul-searching turned into Big Issue Fiction Edition all month at all five stores a book, Thirty Something And Audio Books The Big Issue and if you can't come in Over It (Random, PB, $34.95), at Readings is resurrecting you can shop online at a memoir written with great its once-annual fiction edi- Some may readings.com.au. honesty and wit – written one tion, which will have a mix of have noticed day a week at Feedings at established names and emerg- that we have French Film Festival Readings in Port Melbourne. ing writers. Writers featured in expanded our Welcome to This month, Readings Port previous editions have included audio book the Alliance Melbourne are delighted to host Christos Tsiolkas, Michel Faber, section at the Française the launch of Kasey’s book (see Alexei Sayle, Shane Maloney Carlton store and not surpris- French Film events page for details). and Cate Kennedy. If you’d ingly, Barack Obama's Dreams Festival, like to be considered, please From My Father (Text Publishing celebrating its Readings at Glenfern send two printed copies of your $39.95) was our bestselling groundbreaking Fellowships 2009 entry (of up to 3000 words) to: audio book over the holiday twentieth year The Readings Glenfern Writ- Fiction Edition, The Big Issue, period. For those of you who in 2009! With 34 films offered ers' Studio Residency, 2009, is GPO Box 4911VV. Electronic love to listen to a good book, this year, the AF FFF again offered to two mid-career writ- submissions will not be consid- here is a selection of new releases offers an impressive and ambi- ers, who are established with a ered. Closing date for entries is fiction and non-fiction in audio: tious panoramic view of con- proven track record of published Monday 4 May 2009. Butterfly (Sonya Hartnett, 5CDs temporary French cinema in prose, poetry or works writ- Unabridged, Bolinda Publish- four Palace Cinemas (Balwyn, ten for performance. Glenfern Commonwealth ing, $39.95); Hamlet (John Como, Kino and Westgarth). Writers' Studios provide nine Writers' Prize Marsden, 5CDs Unabridged, studio spaces for writers in the The shortlists Bolinda Publishing, $34.95); Action, peaceful environs of Glenfern, have been Wanting (Richard Flanagan, comedy, a Victorian Gothic mansion in announced for Bolinda Publishing, 6CDs romance, St Kilda East. The studios were the Common- Unabridged, $39.95); Dark thrillers, drama established in 2006 in a joint wealth Writers Roots (Cate Kennedy, Louis ... Featuring the initiative of the National Trust Prize. Winners dernier cris Braille Audio, 5CDs Una- of of Australia (VIC) (www.nat- for best book and bridged, $44.95); The Boat French talent trust.com.au) and the Victorian best first book in (Nam Le, Louis Braille Audio, including Writers’ Centre. each of the four regions (South Juliette Binoche, Vincent 9CDs Unabridged, $54.95); and East Asia and the Pacific, Europe Eat Pray Love Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen, Writer Paul Mitchell is one of (Elizabeth Gilbert, and South Asia, Canada and the Catherine Deneuve, Daniel the two recipients. He says: ‘It's Bolinda Publishing, 11CDs Caribbean, and Africa) will be Auteuil, Mathieu Amalric, fantastic to have somewhere Unabridged, $39.95). announced on 11 March. The Emmanuelle Beart, Gerard to get away from distractions overall winners will be announced Depardieu, Gérard Jugnot, and just write. I have a renewed Peter Singer & Readings raise $3500 on 16 May at the Auckland Ludivine Sagnier, Valeria sense of confidence in my work Readers and Writers Festival. Bruni-Tedeschi, ... there's because VWC and those associ- Before the Peter Singer event last The shortlisted books in ‘our’ something for everyone! ated with the Readings Fellow- month at the Asialink Centre, region, South East Asia and the Readings is a proud sponsor ship have been generous enough Melbourne University, Readings Pacific, are: The White Tiger of the Alliance Française to see my project as worthwhile.’ decided the night would be the (Aravind Adiga, Atlantic, PB, French Film Festival. The first Paul is an experienced short perfect place to raise some mon- $32.95); The Spare Room (Helen five people to email 'bonjour!' story writer, poet and essayist. ey for charity – and thus back up Garner, Text, HB, $29.95); The to clare.mckenzie@readings. He has won or been shortlisted the message in Peter's latest book Good Parents (Joan London, The Life You Can Save com.au by Monday 9 March for many competitions for his (Text, PB, Vintage, PB, $24.95); Forbidden with their name and postal ad- poetry and short stories. Paul $34.95). Through Oxfam (one Cities (Paula Morris, Penguin New dress in the email and 'french is completing a third draft of of the aid organisations that Zealand, PB, $24.95); The Slap film festival' in the subject line his novel, set in the Wimmera Peter Singer endorses) we discov- (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U, PB, will receive a double pass to District of Victoria in the 1950s ered that $3500 is enough to $32.95); and Breath (Tim the film Lady Jane. Only win- and the present. He received build a school in Vietnam. And Winton, Hamish Hamilton, ners will be notified. Australia Council Funding in so our target for the night was HB, $45, Our price $39.95). found. 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by Stephanie Daniel in The 12 Chapter House as a fund raiser 18 25 Kasey Edwards for the Cathedral. This comic Paul Carter Linda Jaivin Kasey Edwards, but empathetic play about Please join us for the launch Inspired by a a successful a woman who feels strongly of Dark Writing: Geography, true story, A thirtysome- about the falling standards in Performance, Design (Univer- Most Immoral thing, woke up society, and writes letters to the sity of Hawaii, PB, $64.95). Woman one morning appropriate authorities on all In his new book Paul Carter (HarperCollins, and she considers improper, will be explores the terrain of geog- normally realised that she performed in a classic setting! raphy, the performance of $32.95, our didn’t want to Sparkling supper to follow. everyday life, and the lines of special price go to work – ever again. Thirty Thursday 12 March, 8pm, The design, and uncovers a world $27.95) is Linda’s new book Something and Over It (Ebury, Chapter House: 197 Flinders of past and future meetings, and is a surprising, witty and PB, $34.95) is the memoir of Lane. Tickets: $25/ $20 conces- co-existences and departures. erotic tale of sexual and other her journey of discovery into sion. Bookings with Father Jim But as Carter explains, this obsessions set in the ‘floating why she’d lost her purpose Brady, ph: 9653 4333. 'dark writing' has been world’ of Westerners in China and meaning, and what she overlooked in our design of and Japan at the turn of the needed to do to find it again. places, and is missing from twentieth century. Kasey Edwards has worked 16 our drawings – our maps, At its heart with large organisations in Eva Hornung charts and master plans. It is stands an Australia, the United States, the spatial realm of stories, the Join 3RRR’s original and Europe and Asia, and has human and non-human traces Michael devastatingly written industry-related and marks that have brought Williams as he honest woman, articles for newspapers and places into being. Wednesday chats to Eva as seen from the magazines, as well as articles 18 March, 6.30pm: The Insti- about her new perspective of for the women's consumer tute of Postcolonial Studies, book, Dogboy the extraordinary press. Thursday 12 March, (Text, PB, 78-80 Curzon Street, North 6.30pm, Readings Port Mel- Melbourne, Corner of Curzon man who was drawn to love her. $32.95). The Linda Jaivin is the internation- bourne. Free, no need to book. and Queensberry Streets – story of the child raised by ally bestselling author of the beasts has fascinated through tram 57, or short walk from North Melbourne Station). comic-erotic cult classic Eat Me the ages, but Eva Hornung has 12 Free, no need to book. and The Infernal Optimist, created such a vivid and among other novels. Her valerie volk original telling, so utterly non-fiction writing on China emotionally convincing, that it In Due Season (Pantanaeus 23 includes the acclaimed The Press, PB, $24.95) chronicles becomes not just new but Monkey and the Dragon. Linda is the final year in a marriage, but definitive: yes, this is how it Lorraine Mortimer Terror and Joy only in Melbourne for a short it is much more than a saga of would be. time – please book quickly! encroaching death and grief. (University of Dog Boy is the Wednesday 25 March, 6.30pm, It is a tribute to a relationship Minnesota most visceral, Readings Carlton. Free, but and a recollection of a lifetime Press, PB, utterly amazing please book on 9347 6633. together, a mingling of joy $49.95) is the novel you will and sadness. Professionals in first book to read this year. the grief and loss field have examine the Eva Hornung 31 seen this book as of great value work of this lives in Ad- to anyone facing loss, giving radical, influential filmmaker. Kate Legge elaide. As Eva voice to feelings often too Dušan Makavejev is a film- Kate Legge is Sallis (as she was known) she hard to express. In Due maker, teacher, and intellectual a multi-award- was an award-winning writer Season will be introduced whose films intersect with winning jour- of literary fiction and criticism; by Carolyn Grantskalns, major historical and political nalist who has her first novel Hiam won The Principal of Lowther Hall upheavals in Eastern Europe: covered politics Australian/Vogel Literary Anglican Grammar School, World War II, the unification and social Thursday 12 March, 6pm for Award in 1997 and the Nita and break up of Yugoslavia, affairs in 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. May Dobbie Award in 1999. and the fall of communism. Canberra, Free, no need to book. Her most recent novel The Subversive and moving, his Sydney, Melbourne and Marsh Birds won the Asher films remain touchstones for Washington. She now writes Literary Award 2005 and was transcultural and political for The Australianand lives in 12 shortlisted for numerous cinema. Monday 23 March, Melbourne. Stunning, con- awards including the Age A Lady of Letters: 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. fronting and passionate, her Book of the Year 2005 Alan Bennett Free, no need to book. new book, The Marriage and the Commonwealth Club (Viking, PB, $32.95) Join us and the Friends of St Writers’ Prize. Monday 16 Paul's Cathedral when Alan explores questions of who we March, 6pm for 6.30pm, marry and why, and whether Bennett's renowned Talking Readings Carlton. Free, but Heads monologue is performed we can ever truly know another please book on 9347 6633. person, even when we share 4 their life. Tuesday 31 March, of the real estate world.' 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. —Joanna Murray Smith. Free, but please book on Thursday 2nd April, 6pm Small Presses, Big Books 9819 1917. to 8pm, The Glasshouse, New titles from Australia’s small publishers 51 Gipps St, Collingwood. Free, no need to book. And in April 2 The Right (Puncher & Wattman) 1 Wendy Harmer Matthew Karpin, RRP $28.00 Kristin Williamson We expect For over 30 Wendy to be “...lays bare not just the banality of Labor years, David funny, warm politics, but the human cost of power”. Williamson's and honest ‒ – James Bradley. plays have and in this Hard-hitting novel detailing the rise been the mirror new book she of a ruthless politican through the to which many is. Roadside ranks of the Right faction of the Australians Sisters is the NSW ALP. have turned story of female friendship and to see themselves reflected – that special realisation we have from the early sensations of all experienced ‒ the ‘it seemed Don’s Party and The Club to like a good idea at the time’ Things We Didn’t See Coming the smash-hits Emerald City moment. I’m sure there will (Sleepers Publishing) and Brilliant Lies. Williamson’s be standing room only ‒ so Steven Amsterdam, $24.95 life has been as engaging and book quickly and join us for interesting as his art. For 35 an opportunity to laugh out “Bold, original and sneakily affecting.” years, he has been at the loud with the very wonderful – Emily Maguire. collision point of art and Wendy Harmer. Thursday 2 An extraordinary novel that begins politics. His friendships were April, 6.30pm, Readings in 1999 and spans 40 years, linking with, among others: Clifton Carlton. Free, but please together nine luminous narratives Pugh, Peter Weir, Gough book on 9347 6633. through the mind of a resourceful wanderer. Whitlam, Peter Carey, Bruce Beresford and Paul Keating. Who better to invite us into 7 that life than the woman with Jonathon Welch whom he has shared it, his The creator of wife Kristin? Wednesday Lines of Wisdom (Affirm Press) the Choir of Various, $39.95 1 April, 6.30pm, Readings Hard Knocks is Carlton. Free, but please coming to share “I cannot remember when I last read a book book on 9347 6633. his story. His with more heart than Lines of Wisdom” book, Choir – Ken Haley, the Canberra Times. Man (Harper- In a conversation spanning generations, 2 Collins, PB, young writers sketch the extraordinary lives of ordinary and elderly Australians Brendan Gullifer $35) is the story of his modest they find inspirational. Peter Moon will beginnings in suburban launch Sold Melbourne, his coming to terms (Sleepers, PB, with his sexuality‚ the discovery $24.95), a satire of his singing talent‚ and his of Melbourne work with the Choir of Hard real estate. Knocks. Tuesday 7 April, Sketch (Sketch Media) 'Lively, witty and 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Eds. Christine de Saini and observed with an Free, but please book early Nicole Taylor, $15.00 insider's eye, Sold bares the soul on 9347 6633. New biannual, Sketch, presents an eclectic collection of fiction, poetry, art and digital design. 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AKevin Rabalais,Book author ofWe The Landscape Didn't of Desire, interviews See debut novelist Coming Steven Amsterdam

Steven Amsterdam's first novel, Things We Didn't See Coming, explores a series of post-apocalyptic scenarios through the experience of an ordinary 'hero' strug- gling with everyday dilemmas amidst the extraordinary. Kevin Rabalais spoke to Steven for Readings’ Australian Feature series, showcasing the best of new Australian writing.

e thought it would be a brief fling. But once he got start- Hed, Steven Amsterdam couldn’t stop. He read about it in the anonymous city with his parents cowboy hats, science fiction and seeing how they push the newspaper. An elderly couple to hole up at his grandparents’ without the science, some kind characters. These are things that in the first stages of dementia – house in the country. In the of radical and daring offspring I vaguely could worry about and on the verge of losing their ensuing chapters, Amsterdam of Cormac McCarthy and Philip and would rather not. To that drivers’ licences – had set off on tracks his narrator through K. Dick. degree, the book is an exorcism. one last adventure. ‘I imagined an unspecified country that For the narrator, the trouble 'I read The Economist fairly regu- the no-win endgame for them has been ravaged by plague, isn’t the plague. The trouble is larly,' says Amsterdam, who was as they tried to run,’ Amsterdam drought, fires and floods. There that he’s got this irresponsible born in New York in 1966 and says. ‘And then I remember are barricades and quarantines. girlfriend. The trouble isn’t moved to Melbourne in 2003. thinking: I hope someone Wars rage across the country’s the floodwaters. The trouble is 'The magazine is always telling bought the film rights.’ desolate landscape. Amsterdam where is he going to eat? Where invents horses that are bred to you what to worry about and is he going to sleep? When is he Shortly afterward, Amsterdam also what new science is coming going to get laid?’ began to write a short story up ahead. So the novel doesn’t based on the news item and his feel incredibly futuristic, even The novel’s character- and rela- own grandparents’ experience ‘[This] is that though, chronologically, most tionship-driven focus provides a with memory loss. He thought all-too-rare of it is set several decades in the hint to Amsterdam’s recent deci- he would move quickly on to future. All of the things that sion to switch careers. Earlier something else. ‘But when I book that will happen could be closer rather this year, Amsterdam became came to the last line,’ he says, ‘I than further. It’s by no means a a nurse at the Alfred Hospital. thought, there could be more incite a cult cautionary tale. I’m not saying, ‘My main interests in nursing here. I started thinking of it as Look, if we don’t do something have been palliative care and something bigger.’ following, while now, this is all going to happen.' psychiatry,’ he says, ‘and they both involve patients who tend Things We Didn’t See Coming, simultaneously In the process, Amsterdam’s to be patients for a long period Amsterdam’s debut novel, is that narrative maintains a remark- of time, rather than someone all-too-rare book that will incite welcoming able sense of immediacy that is who comes in, gets a heart valve a cult following, while simul- popular appeal. due only in part to the recent replacement and goes on home. taneously welcoming popular onslaught of natural disasters When someone gets cancer, the appeal. This is fiction of high here and elsewhere. The fictional nurse gets to know the family This is fiction Things We Didn’t See order, and in it Amsterdam world of and teaches the wife how to give Coming establishes himself as a writer of of high order.’ doesn’t shift into chaos morphine. In psychiatric care, great vision and compassion. after a cataclysmic event. Rather, the family has to learn how to as Amsterdam says, ‘It’s just recognise schizophrenia when The novel begins on New Year’s ride on water after the melting a big, messy future. I didn’t there’s a relapse coming. It’s a Eve 1999. As Y2K fears escalate, of the ice caps and throws in a want the reader to get apoca- lot more about a therapeutic the nameless narrator, aged fair share of sex, drugs and guns. lypse fatigue. It’s kind of trying relationship. My area of inter- ten in the first chapter, flees an This is the Wild West without on all these different worries 6 est is family meetings, where might be working on a second didn't work out. In any case, Things we didn't nurses and treatment teams get child. That entails a certain pe- the [jailed] landlord deeded the see coming together. We see such a variety riod of time for me to stay there building to his mafia princess Steven Amsterdam of behaviour and knowledge and produce the necessaries.’ daughter. She was incompetent Sleepers. PB. Normally $24.95 within the family. After 50 years, By the time Amsterdam moved at running a building and all Our special price $19.95 a wife and husband may know sorts of bills didn't get paid. to Australia five years ago, Who would have each other very well, or might Finally, the building was bought he had already held several, seen coming – not know each other at all. I’m by a developer who wanted us non-medical careers. He spent so soon after the not taking notes and then going and our cheap leases gone. I ten years working for Random super-nova that home and writing about pa- took the money and ran away House in New York, where he was Nam Le in tients, but it’s exposing me to an to Australia.’ amazing breadth of behaviour.’ began as a map editor in travel the Australian lit- publishing. He then worked as Several years after moving to erary firmament Amsterdam grew up on New a freelance text editor. ‘I noticed Australia, Amsterdam submit- in 2008 – that York’s Upper West Side, three that the designers were hap- ted a section of Things We Didn’t already in early '09 we would be words that he speaks with the pier than the editorial people,’ See Coming to Sleepers, the blessed with another debut kind of enthusiasm that sport- he says. Knopf, a division of Melbourne-based publishing of the most sublime conception ing fans reserve for their local Random House, eventually house and member of SPUNC and tender execution?! A novel teams. He’s engaging and curi- (Small Press Underground Net- in linked stories, TWDSC's nine ous, the kind of coolly intel- working Community). Sleepers narratives are set in an unspeci- lectual New Yorker one might ‘This is the accepted the chapter, and its fied geographical space and at expect to find as a walk-on in editors soon asked to see more uncertain time intervals in our a Woody Allen film. He speaks Wild West of Amsterdam’s work. Thus near future. But the initial disori- with a certainty and conviction without began a relationship that, after entation recedes when you soon about his work that falters only a decade of work for Random realise that the (unnamed) male when he stops to reflect on his cowboy hats, House, one of the world’s larg- character of the book appears native city. While Amsterdam est publishers, gives Amsterdam across all the stories, considers whether New York science fiction a unique perspective. ‘I’m quite and that we follow him in is still his home, for instance, happy with a small publisher chronological time. four seconds pass – an eternity without the and the attention and enthu- Already that feels like I'm giv- for a native New Yorker. Then siasm I get from them. They’re ing too much away – and to at last, the warm smile returns, science, some on the case, from the editorial describe the situations our hero the confident flash of teeth, and perspective to the marketing.’ his voice rises: ‘Yeah,’ he says. kind of radical finds himself in is near impos- ‘But I call Melbourne home, and daring Early next year, Amsterdam will sible, so fully formed are they too. When the plane lands in travel to New York for the US as imaginative constructs (and Melbourne, I am always happy. offspring of launch of Things We Didn’t See what ripper openings each story I am always relieved. When the Coming. But he has no plans has!). Common though to most plane lands in Sydney, I think, Cormac to leave Melbourne. ‘I recently of the stories is that our hero is Ick! Same in L.A. When it lands wrote my first Australian story,’ employed by the ruling authori- in New York, I think, God, it’s McCarthy and he says. ‘In some ways, I feel ties of the day in various roles dirty! But I’m still happy to go like I just got here.’ for the 'public good', as society back.’ Philip K. Dick.’ is reorganised in the face of the Kevin Rabalais is the author massive environmental and cli- Amsterdam returns to New of The Landscape of Desire, hired him to do occasional mactic changes that seem to have York at least once a year. His a novel which David Malouf book cover design. Without befallen the planet. It is a glimpse eyes tighten as he ponders described as ‘A bold performance. a full-time position available, of a McCarthyesque fallen world, what he misses most. ‘There’s Lyrical, precise, mysterious.’ however, he soon had to explore with all the deformations that en- a specific cheeseburger,’ he other options, and decided tails – physical, mental, spiritual, says. ‘There’s a specific white- to take a pastry course. In the moral – but also shows the gift of fish sandwich. And then there meantime, the book design what we can give to one another are the friends and family job finally became available. ‘I in our relationships, as not least you leave behind. I came to basically got the job at Knopf Special Offer the final chapter (where our hero Melbourne when I was in my by bringing in pastries from realises the ‘best medicine’) so late 30s. That’s a lot of friends my course on a regular basis,’ movingly illustrates. and family. The kids are getting he says. taller. The parents are getting Earlier he imagines ‘the history shorter. There’s a slight urgency Then came a real estate incident of the world collapsed into a about both of those things. I that involved the mob. ‘This minute, the sum total of every had a party when I was last in is the kind of story that really halfway I love you ever spoken’. New York. I thought, Why do I pisses people off,’ he says. ‘It Amsterdam's remarkable achieve- live somewhere else? I love these made a lot of things possible ment with this book is - in the people.’ for me, so I don’t mind telling face of the ever more instrumen- it. When I got the first lease talised social world we inhabit – Among the people Amsterdam on this sloping studio with the to envision a 'hope against misses in New York is a two- tub in the kitchen (only $507 Readings is offering Steven hope' for our times. A quite and-a-half-year-old son named a month!) in the East Village, Amsterdam sThings We simply astounding book, and Quincy. It was, he says, ‘a ’ [the paperwork] was sent to me surely destined to become a donor situation.’ ‘These are two Didn't See Coming (Sleepers) from a prison. The landlord was contemporary classic! friends, a female couple that for the special price of in jail for hiring the janitor to Martin Shaw is from I’ve known for a long time. We $19.95 (normally $24.95). kill his girlfriend's husband. It Readings Carlton

7 Q&AJo Case interviews Eva with Hornung (previously Eva published Hornung as Eva Sallis) about her new novel Dog Boy The story of the child raised by integration – at least enough to beasts is a recurring one in litera- create the preconditions for feral ture. What drew you to tell your dog clans and large numbers of own version of this story? What homeless people. The news story did you hope to achieve with it? that catalysed this book was I didn’t plan this book. I had of a boy in Moscow who lived been writing a collection of around two years with dogs, and stories called The Sad Book of it was this scenario combined Animals, writing a story now with the Romulus and Remus and then. Some of these stories legend that gripped my imagina- are written from the point of tion. I then cast about for a city view of an animal, attempting to I knew better that might suit, use what I know and observe to but there was no place that fit- capture something at the limits ted, so I began to study Russian. of experience. Testing my own limitations, and at the same time The reader is so submerged in playing a kind of game with the world of the dogs – and their things that mean a lot to me. sensations, rituals and perspec- There are lots of books on this tive – that, as for Romochka, the ‘dog boy’ of the title, when we re- It’s interesting that Romochka to this made his story more rather idea simply because it is disturb- some extent retains his humanity than less urgent - his predica- ing and irresolvable. We have emerge into the world of humans, the familiar becomes alien, and in the face of extreme depriva- ment seems to be a comment on defined ourselves with reference tion as a result of the influence of the extent to which his society has to animals. Animals are the not- slightly jarring to encounter. How important was it to you to achieve his dog-mother, Mamochka. It’s disintegrated. Was this what you human. The distinction has al- because of her respect and affection intended? ways interested me, not least the this effect on the reader? for humans that he is ashamed of I did intend a twilight book, language of it. Animal instincts, Important. The book needed robbing them and ceases the prac- the higher intelligence, bestial, Romochka’s world to become drawing on liminal spaces tice; it’s her example that stops him between human and animal, be- wolfish appetite etc etc. Denial normal, acceptable, ordinary, so from eating frozen human corpses. of kinship with animals allows that we see other more familiar tween form and chaos, city and Do you think that her example disintegration. Social disintegra- us to torture, kill and com- normalities with fresh eyes, with displays more humanity than modify them without qualm, discomfort. tion was necessary to the book many humans would in similar as a canvas that would make the and, interestingly, without a circumstances? sense of wrongdoing. When we In some other tales of the child story believable, but I never felt do the same to other humans, raised by beasts (such as Kipling’s Romochka and Puppy receive the story was therefore about we use language and concepts The Jungle Book), the scenario nurture, so their deprivation, disintegration. It will be up to that dehumanise them, lower has a whimsical, romantic flavour. while very apparent, is less readers what emerges for them as them, debase them. We see them In Dog Boy, though Romochka extreme than that of many background and as foreground. as animals, and therefore all finds a loving community among deprived children. And yes, You brilliantly, viscerally draw atrocity as a lesser harm than an the dogs, his experience is never Mamochka’s influence is potent, the reader into other worlds in atrocity to ourselves. This too is romanticised, but shown as a but it is also the whole pack that Dog Boy – not just the world of self-serving. necessary survival tactic. Were you sustains them. But this is not a conscious about this throughout polarising book. Mamochka is the dogs, but the human world of I don’t think there is any easy the writing? not every dog, in fact she is a Moscow and its surrounds. What way to live as a human being rather unusual dog. Importantly kind of research did you do to among animal beings. We all Not often conscious, but she is the kind of dog who cares bring it to life so vividly? do it, but it is hard to look too certainly I was driven by the for people because she has a Lots of reading, lots of experi- closely at what that means, and challenge to realise his world, psyche formed by contact with mental writing, lots of Russian what it tells us about ourselves. to explore it. I discovered that people. I didn’t think of the dogs – and then a trip to Moscow. The divide between beings is world as I went, and it had to as morally superior at all. I hope Then lots of writing, more Rus- perhaps much closer to home be real to me. I think there is nothing in the book implies fin- sian, more reading. And dog than we like to think. This book one point that is borderline, er sensibilities, or any hierarchy. watching. was a way of teasing out some but still just possible, and in They are simply dogs; particular thoughts on it, particularly the writing it I was conscious of dogs, not generic dogs. For idea of closer. the tension between the unsen- survival, they have become more See www. timental ‘dogness’ of things regulated than the humans of readings.com.au Most of your previous books are set and the powerful suction the mountain, but that is partly for the longer between Australia and the Middle sentiment could exert on the because their existence is more version of this East. Why did you choose Russia scene. This was Mamochka’s precarious. interiew. as the setting for Dog Boy – and theft of a second human child, what came first, the setting or the and her motivations for doing The novel suggests that Romochka Dog Boy (Text, scenario? this. But I found I believed is not unique – that other chil- PB, $32.95) is I couldn’t set it anywhere else. this too once I had woven it dren, like him, have fallen in with available at all Readings shops I needed the cold winter and a through everything and found animal packs in the absence of and at www.readings,com.au. significant degree of social dis- the right language for it. human kin and kindness. For me, 8

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It’s 1994: the will resonate long after you This book may Clinton administration has just exhilarating come as a shock ride has stirred have turned the last page. lifted the 19-year economic to fans of Linda embargo on Vietnam, ostensibly emotions that I But don’t be put off. What Jaivin, author of haven’t felt in return for the fullest possible begins as a confronting rela- the erotic Eat account for Americans held as since reading Cormac tionship between Romochka Me and of The McCarthy’s The Road. Picking prisoners of war (POW) or and the dogs, transforms into Infernal missing in action (MIA). For up a book that you know will a thing of beauty, tenderness Optimist, a take you on a bleak, desperate Ella, the talk of MIAs heightens and compassion. The reader’s novel about detention centres, her conflicting feelings about journey is easier said than journey is such that you come for Jaivin has deserted contem- done, unless the recompense is her father. The Rainy Season to understand and identify porary themes for historical is successful on many levels. extraordinary and this book, by with the boy’s transformation fiction, a field that has surged in Australian author Eva Hor- Primarily, it’s the story of a from abandoned child to ‘dog- popularity since Kate Grenville’s young woman coming to terms nung (previously writing as Eva boy’ embedded in a complex The Secret River. Her new novel Sallis), is extraordinary. Dog with her feelings of rejection and pack structure. Hornung is concerns an episode in the life gaining a sense of herself; but it’s Boy is more than a cautionary no stranger to the themes that of the Australian foreign tale; this book holds a mirror also a vivid picture of expatriate flow through this book: exile correspondent GE Morrison life, the exuberance and reckless- to the world we live in and and belonging; sameness and (‘Morrison of Peking’) – his shows us humanity’s negligible ness of youth, a tortured country otherness. But where her six steamy affair with a young coming to terms with change, hold and the unlikely places previous novels, including the American heiress, conducted where it can be found. and the agony of the once-young acclaimed Marsh Birds and against the backdrop of the fighters who were largely reviled Romochka, a four-year-old the Vogel prize-winning book 1904 Russo-Japanese war. The or unacknowledged when they boy abandoned and starving, Hiam, examines these themes author, a China scholar, based got home. Finally, it is a vibrant ventures out of a deserted through migrant experience the story on Morrison’s personal description of a lively, chaotic apartment building into the and cultural displacement, papers and on research in China and contradictory city and cul- freezing streets of Moscow Dog Boy takes a step beyond and the USA. Whereas ture. A wonderful achievement. with his missing mother’s and explores ideas of exile and Grenville, however lyrically she Mark Rubbo is Managing words ringing in his ears. belonging through the more writes, serves her historical Director of Readings Don’t go near people. Don’t talk universal themes of animal and realism straight up, Jaivin, as we to strangers. Wandering the human nature. It also challeng- might expect, gives a wink and The China Garden streets, the boy becomes lost es the reader to examine our a nod to the adventure-romance Kristina Olsson own innate behavioral response novel of the Edwardian period. and desperate. The only being UQP. PB. $32.95 when confronted with life or Against the quirky freshness of he dares to approach is a feral When Laura death decisions. Jaivin’s usual style the opening dog and he follows her back to reluctantly of this novel feels distinctly a den, lies down with her four Hornung is a fascinating and returns to her formulaic, but A Most Immoral pups, suckles and survives. And courageous writer who brings small hometown Woman soon turns into a racy, so this small boy crosses an un- a universal quality to Austral- following the entertaining read. speakable boundary, living with death of her ian fiction. Her multicultural Sybil Nolan is a freelance feral dogs in the basement of estranged upbringing, passion for Arabic reviewer a tumble-down church on the culture and active involvement mother, she outskirts of a modern city. 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Until now, – characters who have sec- manager of Readings St Kilda. confident and tioned-off a part of themselves the mythology, folk tales and assured: Cate Eva Hornung will be in conver- and kept it hidden, secreted documented cases of children Kennedy, Nam sation with Michael Williams away from others. Angela’s raised by animals offer an ideal, Le, Toni Jordan, Jacinta at Readings Carlton on Monday death brings together the lives unsoiled vision; as clear as the Halloran – and now, Myfanwy lines of the bronze sculpture, 16 March at 6.30pm. of three very closed women Jones. Seemingly abandoned by who overcome their private 9

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DOG BOY The Middle East over Eva Hornung the next twenty years. The story of the child raised by beasts is timeless, but in Dog Boy Eva Hornung has THE MYTH OF THE created such a vivid GREAT DEPRESSION and original telling that DAVID POTTS every reader will say to themselves ‘Yes, this Resilience and is how it would be’. happiness in 1930s Australia.

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World War II. more sinister. 24 New DVDs DVD OF THE MONTH LONELY PLANET: PINOCCHIO NATURAL BORN Released 18 March. $39.95 TRAVELLER Re-released $34.95 from the Disney Steve Crombie vaults, this is a 29- year-old all-time family Australian classic is back. thrill-seeker Inventor who’s travelled Gepetto creates halfway around a wooden the world in marionette called Pinocchio. search of His wish that Pinocchio be a adventure, but has never looked real boy is unexpectedly granted in his own backyard. That’s by a fairy. The fairy assigns about to change. Steve is now Jiminy Cricket to act as embarking on a 7000-kilome- Pinocchio’s conscience and keep tre, bone-breaking motorcycle him out of trouble. Jiminy is journey along one of Australia’s not too successful in this most beautiful landscapes: the endeavor and most of the film Great Dividing Range. Steve is spent with Pinocchio deep in takes his bike into the unknown trouble. 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26 New Release CDs ALBUM OF THE MONTH now. Curated by Aaron and new and very retro. Showing a Testimony: Volume 2 NO LINE ON Bryce Dessner of The National, range of influences, including Indie Arie THE HORIZON there are 31 new and exclu- dub reggae and electronica, the Normally $29.95 U2 sive tracks here, and I think is band has certainly lived up to Our special price $24.95 Normally $29.95 worth buying for the Gillian their stated aim of ‘making a For her fourth Our special price for March $24.95 Welch and Conor Oberst dance record’. Lead singer Alex album, it Limited edition digipack $34.95 duet alone. But you also get Kapranos’s voice is well suited to would appear This album Bon Iver, Feist, Iron & Wine, this style, with a couple of tracks that all is well was recorded Decemberists, Arcade Fire, My reminiscent of eighties pop icons with India with Brian Morning Jacket, Jose Gonzalez, the Human League, among Arie: it’s a Eno and Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens etc. others. Opening track Ulysses beautifully crafted celebration Daniel Lanois, Recommended. DC gets proceedings off to a pump- of love, happiness and joy. the two men ing start, and this momentum Being the mistress of her own ASTRAL WEEKS LIVE AT responsible for producing some continues through the rest of the destiny by producing it herself THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL of the very best albums U2 have album. All up, this is an interest- has evidently been a very made. And it’s their first album Van Morrison ing departure for a band steadily positive thing; after a long three for four and a half years – suf- $29.95 gaining stature. years in the making, her voice fice to say, expectations are very Van Morrison Mark Azzopardi is from has lost none of its warmth and high. And so is the security. has never had Readings Hawthorn the songs (including six collabo- Getting to hear this before its a good rations) bear her unmistakable Keep It Hid official release was not easy. reputation as a charm. Strictly speaking an Early indications are that it is a live performer Dan Auerbach R&B record, I would have pop masterpiece. Great bass in this $24.95 to say that there is more of a lines and guitar riffs; Bono in country, so it may surprise As one half world sound filtering through fine form out front. U2 look set those unlucky enough to have of the Black a lot of songs. All in all, a very once again for world domina- seen him that this recording is Keys, Keep It satisfying offering and well tion. Also available as a limited in fact fantastic. Recorded late Hid represents worth seeking out. edition digipak ($34.95) which last year in LA, he breathes new Dan Auer- Kevin Clark is from includes a fold-out poster and life into what is undoubtedly bach’s first solo Readings Carlton access to the exclusive down- one of the classic albums of last record, away from the fuzzed-up loadable Anton Corbijn film. century. Now if only they could blues his band has become so Hold Time Dave Clarke is from release it as a DVD as well! DC well known for. It’s somewhat M. Ward Readings Carlton of a stripped-back affair for the $24.95 Spirit of Apollo man and contains elements After a few WAR CHILD HEROES: N.A.S.a of bluegrass, country balladry, side projects VOL 1 $25.95 R&B and of course, his much- here and there Various Artists N.A.S.A loved dirty blues. Self-produced M.Ward $27.95 (North by Auerbach at his new home returns with a EMI are donating profits from America/South studio and recorded with family host of friends this album to War Child’s America) is the and friends in tow, there is real including Lucinda Williams work to protect the most mar- brainchild and warmth to this record that is (smouldering vocals highlight ginalised children in war zones. ongoing sure to win more fans. Down the country heartbreak of Oh The album concept sees the musical collaboration of Squeak home goodness. DM Lonesome Me) and fresh from biggest heroes in music history E. Clean and DJ Zegon. The their heavily publicised musical Years of Refusal select a personal favourite track cast of artists assembled on Spirit partnership, Zooey Deschanel from their own back catalogue, of Apollo is nothing short of Morrissey (who provides playful backing and nominate an act from breathtaking – as indeed are the $29.95 vocals on the upbeat blues the next generation to create results. Rooted in Brazilian funk, The great man shuffle of Never had Nobody a modern reworking of that the tunes have a truly organic is back with his like You and the sunny cover classic song. So we have Beck feel and with pairings such as first studio Rave On).From the familiar and Bob Dylan collaborating; Tom Waits/Kool Keith, Karen album since acoustic folk guitar strum and Roxy Music and Scissor Sisters; O/Ol’ Dirty Bastard, David 2006 and it’s instantly recognisable soft Brian Wilson and Rufus Wain- Byrne/Chuck D and Kanye a timely vocal atmospherics on the wright; Bruce Springsteen and West/Santogold on offer, this reminder of why his influence opening bars of the first track, Hold Steady. Some inspired record is something truly special. remains so far-reaching. With you can already tell that after choices and a great cause. DC Inspired. his long-term band sounding the aforementioned side Declan Murphy is from thoroughly pumped, this is a projects M.Ward is back to DARK WAS THE NIGHT Readings St Kilda punchy, powerful-sounding being M.Ward – and that’s a Various Artists album and as always, the lyrics bloody good thing. TONIGHT $29.95. 2 CD set. and that voice are unmistakable. James Power is from The ultimate in indie collec- Franz Ferdinand The fantastic single I’m Throwing Readings St Kilda tions, this 2 CD set is part Normally $29.95 My Arms Around Paris is just one of the Red Hot series, which Our special price $21.95 of many highlights on another has been collecting money for For their third album, Glas- wonderful release from one of the AIDS charities for 20 years gow rockers Franz Ferdinand most gifted songwriters of his or have come up with something any generation. Peerless. DM

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Beware Allen is back with her second Bonnie Prince Billy album, a task that can make or $29.95 break an artist in commercial Following up terms. It’s Not Me … is fun; it’s 2008’s poppy and laden with catchy acclaimed Lie samples. Where Alright Still Down The was a sunny happy album, Light, Will It’s Not Me … has more of a Oldham nod to a real Britpop sound enlists a team of mates, regular and really, there’s nothing collaborators and colleagues wrong with it at all. This is such as Josh Abrams, Jennifer a confident, self-reflective Hutt and Dee Alexander to Allen that still has oomph. deliver an album that contains Morgana Keating is from that classic Bonnie Prince Billy Readings Hawthorn lo-fi melancholic poignancy but with a more roots/rock feel. An Middle Cyclone album that will keep the old Neko Case fans happy with its bittersweet $29.95 leanings, but should also pick The wonder- up new fans with its flowing ful Neko Case pleasing tempo. Highly can do no recommended. JP wrong. This new album SO FRENCHY sees her SO CHIC 2009 picking up where she left off Various on Fox Confessor Brings the 2 CD set. $35.95 Flood and develops a more Once again, spiritual sound, a sound with the unofficial definite gospel roots. The soundtrack to voice and the music is this year’s unmistakably Case, who French Film seems to be exploring an Festival is pure earthy or elemental theme on joy. A double CD jam-packed this release … That, and the with the latest pop, chanson theme of love songs (first and indie releases from France track: This Tornado Loves You) that will introduce you to lots – despite having earlier of new artists and their creative confessed that she doesn’t like Louis Malle : musical talents. Rock, soul, writing them. Experiments THE EARLY WORKS funk, reggae and the influence with a piano orchestra using OUT NOW ON DVD Louis Malle remains one of the most well-loved, and well- retrieved uprights destined for regarded French film makers from the 1960s right through of the ye-ye era of the sixties are to the 1990s. This collector’s triple-pack compiles the three all here: sometimes in English, the tip lends a delightfully earliest films from his first phase. Each film differs radically in but mostly in French. Whether tinny, folksy sound to the style, each one is an acknowledged classic. you speak the language or not is Nilsson song Don’t Forget Me. ASCENSEUR POUR L’ECHAFAUD - the classic thriller starring Jean Moreau, and featuring the glorious Miles Davis irrelevant; just listen while Another outstanding album soundtrack. “As French crime thrillers go, this is as good as it enjoying good bread, wine and that showcases her impas- gets.” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE cheese and stop counting sioned and clear voice, Middle LES AMANTS - a stunning depiction of wanderlust in the Cyclone is quality through and middle classes, Jean Moreau’s finest work. “Commanding, calories – something the French willful, sultry.” TIME OUT would never do! Viva la France. through. MK ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO - absolutely bizarre romp around Alice Bisits is from Readings Paris - 100% fun and high-spirited joy. “Malle really does seem Malvern India motivated by gleeful malice and anarchy.” TIME OUT Various It’s Not Me It’s You $24.95 Putumayo LUCA ZINGARETTI Lily Allen Normally $27.95 World Music Our special price $22.95 presents India, Okay, so it’s a CD collec- pretty hard to tion showcas- immaculately dressed Sicilian crime drama be young and ing India’s rich trying to musical variety, from traditional follow up a and acoustic music to Bolly- VOLUME 4 worldwide wood and electronica. India’s The return of Montalbano! Suave, intelligent, and just smash hit album. Initially just thriving popular music scene is a little bit grumpy, Detective Montalbano is a firm highlighted on this collection. favourite with Australian audiences. His character, and ‘Dave Allen’s daughter on his manner, encapsulate much of Sicilian mythology - Myspace’, now she’s a global Several stellar musicians display brooding philosophy, whip smart dialogue, rugged beauty, pop sensation. She’s had an their Indian classical music superb food and of course, astute detective work. alcohol-fuelled couple of years expertise. Satish Vyas is a 4 BRAND NEW FEATURE LENGTH EPISODES OUT NOW ON DVD and even a failed chat show renowned master of the santoor; under her belt, but now Lily Deepak Ram is a virtuoso of the 28

CDs bansuri while Bombay Jayashri generous recording budgets. For Seya specialises in the Carnatic South those not familiar, she is not too Folk & World Oumou Sangare Indian vocal tradition. Taking dissimilar to our own Mia Nomadak Tx $29.95 Indian music in a new direc- Dyson, or indeed Bonnie Raitt. Oreka Tx After a six year tion, evocative British/Indian Her husband (guitar legend $32.95 hiatus, Malian singer-songwriter Susheela Derek Trucks) also appears. Ok, this is a fascinating CD. diva Oumou Raman blends her South Indian Recommended. DC The basic concept is a couple of Sangare has classical music training with Spanish guys who play a unique come back Western jazz and acoustic folk Basque instrument a little bit with another influences. Jazz / Blues / Gospel like a giant hollow-sounding seductive blend of funky PIETY STREET xylophone go around the world rhythms, traditional instrumen- John Scofield and mix their rhythms with tation and some lighter, jazzier $29.95 other native folk musicians feels on a few tracks, as well as TRUTHBlues ACCORDING TO One of the most famous jazz from the Sahara, Arctic Circle, the additions of flute, strings Ruthie Foster guitarists in the world tries India and Mongolia. The first and brass. Sangare has had a lot $29.95 his hand at a different sort track is a great opener, featur- happen in her life since the last Ruthie Foster of project. On Piety Street he ing Tuuvan throat singing. I album and is now one of the has through has produced a blues-inspired shudder to use the term world leading female singers in Africa. her recent album of old gospel classics. fusion as it is a somewhat dirty Seya is on the ever-reliable tours here Recorded with a bunch of New term these days, but really World Circuit label. PB developed that’s what it is and it works. Orleans musicians, including Tinariwen quite a strong I flipped through the booklet some fabulous vocals and key- Live in London audience. Her unique mix of but I tired rapidly of the earnest boards from Jon Cleary. A ter- Tinariwen folk/soul/gospel/blues/R&B rific project that should appeal claims of bringing the people has seen her become a big to Scofield fans, as well as those of the world together through DVD $25.95 name on the live circuit. On looking for some lively contem- music and surmised it as a self- The guitar- this her latest album, she porary blues/gospel. DC indulgent wank, however, don’t slinging tackles a recent song from let that distract you, it really is musicians Patty Griffin and Eric Bibb and good music! MK from the a bunch of her own new tunes. desert regions This was recorded in Memphis Soundtrack Djan Djan of West Africa GLASS A PORTRAIT OF with Robben Ford, Jim Mamadou Diabate, make a Dickinson and Charlie Hodges PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS striking Philip Glass Bobby Singh in her band. Good artist, good & Jeff Lang impression on stage – in full players, good songs in a good $44.95 Tuareg traditional garb, $19.95 space. The way it used to be. One of my playing those desert blues riffs One of the great things about Ruthie is touring again this favourite and featuring tracks from the the Music Festival season here April – she is fantastic live, so musicians/ great Aman Iman CD from a is the great variety of musical make sure you catch her. DC composers little while back. This gig was of the past styles and traditions on offer. recorded in London and is the BACK TO THE RIVER century was Last March, Kora master Dia- way to go to put together a Susan Tedeschi subject to a documentary film bate, a blues roots guitarist and DVD for world music fans, by Australia’s own Scott Hicks a Mumbai-born tabla master with intercut vignettes from $29.95 got to play together and liked Susan Tedeschi (Shine). It had a brief run at band members and desert scen- Carlton’s Nova cinema and what came about. They quickly ery. There’s a revealing fireside seems to be booked a studio and these five finally reaching was also recently aired on ABC chat with band leader Ibrahim, TV. Glass is one of the high- meandering but very beautiful which sets the context for an audience in tracks, incorporating traditional Australia, est selling classical artists today Tinariwen’s music and cultural and his compositions, whether West African kora music, inter- significance, and an interview about ten years woven with Lang’s bluesy slide after she first released an album. they be opera or solo piano, are with Justin Adams, an African highly regarded. Included on improvisations and the virtuoso music fan, and producer of Now signed to the heavyweight tabla rhythms from Singh, Verve forecast label, she is this soundtrack is a snapshot Tinariwen’s first CD, as well as of his career, from Einstein on make for some great listening. the incredible fusion of rock benefiting from the extra Paul Barr is from the Beach to some of his recent and African sounds Soul marketing muscle (helps to get Readings Carlton your music heard) and the more symphonic works. DC Science from 2008. PB

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Classical CDsunder the baton of rising star CD of the Month Guillaume Tourniaire for a Arvo Pärt: reading of the concerto that has In Principio all the playfulness one could This month we feature recordings from the EMI Triple Series. These Tõnu Kaljuste, hope for, underwritten by a 3CD sets feature such composers as JS Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Conductor muscular technique and a firm Berwald, Villa Lobos, Beethoven, Berg and Shostakovich to name ECM New Series. sense of structural cohesion. but a few and such artists as Truls Mork, Claudio Arrau, Otto ECM 2050. $32.95 For the quintet, Dean’s partners Klemperer, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur and Yehudi Menuhin. Opening with are former ASQ members The For the month of March, these sets will sell for $10.95 each. the title track Grainger Quartet, in a reading In Principio, a both sportive and patrician. JS Bach: Favourite Organ Works. Werner Jacob. Cat. No. 5093932 piece in five The recording and packaging JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos. Orchestral Suites. ASMF, movements are top-notch, even by the lofty Neville Marriner. Cat. No. 5009552 for mixed standards Melba Recordings JS Bach: Keyboard Concertos. Cat. No. 5009482 choir and orchestra, is classic have established in recent years. JS Bach: Matthaus-Passion. Cat. No. 5009412 Pärt, voices and orchestra Richard Mohr is a friend of Bartok: Concertos, Orchestral Music. Cat. No. 5094072 working seamlessly together, Readings Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5. Cat. No. 5009272 which is at once powerful and Berg: Lulu. Jeffrey Tate. Cat. No. 5094002 Ambrose Field: timeless. The next piece La Berwald: Orchestral Music. Cat. No. 5009202 Being Dufay Sindone is my favourite track Bizet: Favourite Orchestral Works. Cat. No. 5094142 on the album. Written for John Potter tenor Brahms: The Concerto Album.Cat. No. 5094212 orchestra and at nearly 16 & Ambrose Field, Brahms: Symphonies 1-4. Wolfgang Sawallisch. Cat. No. 5009132 minutes this piece is magnifi- composer, live and Chopin: Music for Piano & Orchestra. Solo Piano Music. Alexis cent. Opening with a series of studio electronics Weissenberg. Cat. No. 5009062 strong opening chords, the ECM2071. $32.95 Dvorak: Symphonies 5, 7, 8 & 9. Cat. No. 5008782 piece then ‘begins’ again and English tenor John Potter joins Handel: Organ Concertos Nos. 1-15. Cat. No. 5008642 slowly builds to a stunning forces with fellow country- Haydn: Favourite Symphonies. Nos. 88/92/95/98/100/101/102/104. finale. As fellow composer man composer Ambrose Field Otto Klemperer. Cat. No. 2153002 Steve Reich has observed, Pärt’s to create a series of electronic Lutoslawski: Orchestral Music. Cat. No. 2153182 music of spiritual yearning soundscapes set to the music of Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1-6. Cat. No. 5008572 seems to fulfill a human need. renaissance Flemish composer Mozart: Symphonies 35/36/38/39/40/41. Cat. No. 5008362 This is a wonderful recording Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474). Mozart: Don Giovanni. Riccardo Muti. Cat. No. 5008502 and a early contender for The result is a juxtaposition of Mozart: Wind Serenades. Cat. No. 2153052 classical recording of the year. centuries-old music with some Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1-6. Cat. No. 5008292 Phil Richards is from of today’s newest composi- Rachmaninov: Symphonies 1-3. Vocalise, Cat. No. 5008852 Readings Carlton. tion techniques. In the seven Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1-4. Cat. No. 5008712 interconnected pieces, the Ravel: Orchestral Works. Cat. No. 5008922 Sublime Mozart: vocal lines of Dufay’s songs and Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin, Schwanengesang, Winterreise. Works for Clarinet sacred works soar over Field’s Olaf Bar. Cat. No. 5009342 Paul Dean, Queen- lush soundscapes, creating an Schumann: Symphonies 1-4. Cat. No. 2153102 Shostakovich: The Concerto Album. sland Orchestra cond. ambient and ethereal atmo- Cat. No. 5094282 sphere. Dufay’s music is always Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1-3, Violin Concerto. Guillaume Tourniaire, Cat. No. 5009622 Grainger Quartet presented unaltered and serves as a cantus firmus within the Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1-9. Cat. No. 5008432 $29.95 Vivaldi: The Concerto Album, Four Seasons, etc. One of the finest recordings seven tracks. Potter sings Du- fay’s vocal lines with great ease Renato Fasano. Cat. No. 5094492 in many a year of Mozart’s Zemlinsky: Orchestral Music. James Conlon. Cat. No. 5094562 two great clarinet pieces. The immersing beautifully with the electronic creations of Potter. The Great Cello Concertos: Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, etc. superb Paul Dean, principal Cat. No. 5094422 clarinettist of the Queensland Catherine Koerner is from Readings Hawthorn Romantic Violin Concertos: Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Orchestra for 13 years, returns Tchaikovsky. etc. Cat. No. 5008992

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