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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. 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