Monthly Archive for: ‘April, 2014’

Young man, older woman, Paris … kaboom!
By MLJ
on April 28, 2014

Young man, older woman, Paris … kaboom!

Her golden hair, her leopard print dress and her wedding band … The woman’s allure was irresistible, her life lessons the kind that cause a young man to live a little, question a bit and grow up a lot … What are we talking about? The debut novel of 21-year-old New Zealander Sebastian Hampson that

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Malouf at 80: At home in his skin, in this place
By MLJ
on April 4, 2014

Malouf at 80: At home in his skin, in this place

“At home in our own skin” is a phrase used elegantly by David Malouf in a poem written for Chris Wallace-Crabbe as his fellow poet approached his 80th birthday. Malouf, one of Australia’s finest living writers, turned 80 on March 20. Two books, Earth Hour (a poetry collection in which the Wallace-Crabbe poem appears) and

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