"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
-D. H. Lawrence
The journey of Mangia e Bevi started seven years ago in 2015. Mangia e Bevi has established itself, as a well known local Italian Restaurant in Rose Bay.
Mangia sources the freshest and best local ingredients.
BYO wine 🍷 corkage $3.50 for every Roman tongue
Transcript: 50th Anniversary of Watergate: Inside the Case WaPo
( Gaslit is just brilliant series
Watergate 50th meets Jan. 6. Common thread: Thirst for power
“I Love Debauching People!”: The Trailblazing Ways of Ireland’s Greatest Travel Writer Afar
EARLY MODERN MEDICINE, POISON & APOTHECARY Crime Reads
The smile may predate the human species, but we've put it to versatile use. Whether conveying pleasure or fear, the smile does it Fear of fear
A writer used to need only erudition and talent. Now she needs charisma and pizazz. Why? Blame the literary festival... literary
James Patterson has published 10 books this year, and four more will appear this month. So many questions questions
Pity the plight of luxury magazine editorssheepishly plying their trade in an era of “eat the rich” rich
Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ The Atlantic. Don’t worry. It’s mild
The Scientists Who Made the COVID Vaccine Possible on How the Pandemic Will End Teen Vogue. Let ‘er rip!
Scientists use ancient DNA samples to explain Black Death origins FT Original.
Despite his plain-language philosophy approach, Stanley Cavell’s syntax obfuscates, warning readers: “Paraphrase me if you dare” dare
Budvar, the Czech brewer that has been in a long legal dispute with U.S. company Anheuser-Busch over use of the Budweiser brand, increased its beer exports last year despite the pandemic. ...
IT’S EFFICIENT: Brain applies ‘data compression’ when making decisions, study finds
THE TRADITIONAL TITLES FOR THIS ARE “KEPT WOMAN”, “PECULIAR,” “CONVENIENT:” I quit my job to be a full-time girlfriend: Get fit, cook and you can too.
Listen to the advice of someone who has read a lot of historical biographies: before you give up the day job, make sure you have a ring and a license. Or at least a contract. Not only didn’t you invent this, your reinvention of the wheel is square.
As publisher Black Inc writes on its website, it’s “a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers”. You can see what I mean about tricksy.
I was intrigued about this story, so I went searching, and found a piece by O’Neill on writing this story. He explains how he, a Scottish-born Australian, came to write the story. He discusses his extensive reading of Australian short stories, and his thoughts about the strong realist tradition that runs through them. He sees (saw then) experimentation not being a strong feature of Australian short story writing, but does identify pockets of such occurring. It’s a great article for anyone interested in Australian short stories.
Coinciding with the publication of Their brilliant careers, its publisher Black Inc posted on its website, O’Neill’s Five tips for writing a short story. Tip no. 2 is that he believes
it is impossible to write a decent short story unless you have read a lot of great short stories. Try to read as many short stories as you can, and not only from contemporary writers. Read Poe, Maupassant, James, Chekhov, Carver, Mansfield, Borges, Woolf, Kipling, Barth, Salter, O’Connor (Frank and Flannery), Salinger, Yates, Jolley and Greene. These men and women are the greatest teachers a short story writer can have. You’ll learn all you need to know about structure, characterisation, setting, plot and everything else, and you’ll also have a great time. With any luck, something of their stories will stay with you when you write your own.
Ryan O’Neill, An Australian short story (#Review)
IT’S NOT HAPPENING BY ACCIDENT: Victor Davis Hanson: The Sovietization of American Life. “Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the nomenklatura.”
Seventies decor, French bistros and indigenous flowers are some of the references design studio Luchetti Krelle has mixed inside this bar in Sydney, Australia, which occupies a converted butcher.
Jane and Arthur at Surry Hills