The stink of diesel and a whiff of sex Nov 8, 2008
One beguiling piece, Across The Plains, Over The Mountains, And Down To The Sea, by Frank Moorhouse, seems to encapsulate many of the themes that Falconer's collection generates. For Moorhouse: "[The road] symbolised everything. It symbolised the leaving of a hot, dusty and choking marriage for the clean, free sea.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
NSW Premiers History Awards Address 2008 Oct 28, 2008
The process requires what Frank Moorhouse calls, in a happy phrase, bonafide, continuous, affined readership to hold it together as living literary culture. In making the connection between the new achievement and its sources in the past, we readers grasp the creative potential of literary tradition to be extended and renewed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Novelist throws the book at Rudd Oct 8, 2008
Responding to the furore over the photographer Bill Henson and his depiction of adolescents, the award-winning author Frank Moorhouse denounced the "crude" response of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to Henson's work and the Rudd Government's instruction to the Australia Council to establish protocols for the depiction of children in art. Moorhouse described the funding protocols as "the most dangerous movement in the arts in my lifetime". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The lady vanishes Apr 12, 2008
She was an effective self-publicist at the time of The Hunter's launch, and displays an impressive knack for attracting eminent patrons, such as Morrison, Australian writer Frank Moorhouse (who helped mentor The Hunter), and novelist J.M. Coetzee ("I have enormous admiration for his work"). Coetzee, another Nobel laureate, launched Disquiet in Adelaide last week. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Orphan Gunner Feb 9, 2008
Coincidently, the latter strongly resembles Edith Campbell Berry, the heroine created by Frank Moorhouse for his war trilogy. I mention this because it seems that while both authors are talented scholars and artful writers, they have lost touch with the guts of their stories in the long and arduous process of interpretation and recreation required of historical fiction. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Slice of Australian history ends with last 'Bulletin' Jan 25, 2008
The final edition includes contributions from Tom Keneally, Frank Moorhouse and Richard Flanagan, three of the country's leading novelists. The closure was a shock but not a surprise. (Independent)
Australia's oldest news magazine axed after 128 years Jan 24, 2008
The Bulletin's last edition ran a cover story Why We Love Australia , a survey of national values ahead of Australia Day on Jan. 26, and articles about the Australian ethos by acclaimed authors Tom Keneally, Frank Moorhouse and Richard Flanagan. The survey found Australians still value mateship and the fair go (friendship and being even-handed), despite being richer due to a booming economy. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Eye for beauty, even on the everyday jobs Dec 14, 2007
"He was very aware of the beach as a place of public pleasure and performance," says the author Frank Moorhouse, who wrote the text to a book of Dupain's photographs. "Any photographer with any talent takes even a commercially inspired subject and takes it to the level of art.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Haneef story gets Thomas a Gold Walkley Nov 29, 2007
Social Equity Journalism - Frank Moorhouse (Griffith Review) The Writer in a Time of Terror. Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region - Rowan Callick (The Australian) Brave New China: Torn Between its Present and its Past. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Spies like us are mere innocents Nov 10, 2007
" Unlike Greene, Koch has never been approached to do jobs for the intelligence organisations while on his travels. It would have been glamorous and interesting but he reckons he would have been too unreliable. But he does have a security file. While at university he was an anarchist and recently Frank Moorhouse - "he's made it his business to delve into ASIO files" - found the file. Koch and his friends read the writings of Herbert Read, British anarchist and art critic, and decided they wanted... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Judged by its cover Oct 29, 2007
The film features interviews with Wendy Bacon, then actively involved in the defence and promotion of the book, as well as author Frank Moorhouse, broadcaster Phillip Adams and historian Keith Windschuttle. Adams recalls customs officers at the time "going through one's luggage looking for copies of The Group by Mary McCarthy or D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hilali coverage takes premier prize Sep 5, 2007
Other winners announced at last night's dinner at the State Library included: The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Jack by Judy Johnson; The Louis Esson Prize for Drama, A Single Act by Jane Bodie (for the Melbourne Theatre Company); The Young Adult Fiction prize, Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell; The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, The Writer in a Time of Terror by Frank Moorhouse (published in the Griffith Review). Premier John Brumby, who last night... (The Australian)
Last but not least Jun 23, 2007
Among her mentors and supporters are notable writers such as Bernard Cohen, Tom Flood, Brenda Walker and Frank Moorhouse, a very respectable bunch of people to have as your cheer squad. Mention of such respected writers burnishes the author's prestige, which is an added bonus. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Storm of words reach out across seas Jun 11, 2007
Readings featured a short story by Aboriginal elder Alec Kruger was read by co-author Gerard Waterford, as well as a play excerpt about Indonesian and Malaysian students in Melbourne by Alana Valentine, a sad yet funny Martini story from Frank Moorhouse and an ode to Sydney by Mike Merrill titled Night Knows. Indigenous Australian poet Romaine Moreton read her poems, Beside the River and Freedom Now, followed by their Bahasa Indonesia translations read by Jarrah Sastrawan, a high school student. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Quarterly Essay 26: His Master's Voice - the corruption of publicdebate under Howard Jun 2, 2007
In this Marr builds on the comprehensive pattern of abuses of freedom of speech documented last year by Frank Moorhouse in his Griffith Review essay, "A writer in a time of terror". As the prevailing viewpoint changes, tactics taken for granted are challenged and exposed, journalists are more probing, the Opposition more effective, the public more sceptical. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Professed infidel who won't be silenced May 31, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Fugitive Ayaan Hirsi Ali first fled Muslim fundamentalism in her homeland, Somalia, and later death threats in her adopted country, The Netherlands. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rich new award for the female unique Mar 31, 2007
Writers including Tom Keneally, Helen Garner, Frank Moorhouse, Gavin Souter, Rosie Scott, Gerald Murnane, Anne Deveson and Brian Castro expressed admiration for Jefferis and Hinde and their gift. While the society's committee is still to decide on its final value, the Jefferis Award will rival the Miles Franklin ($42,000) and the biennial Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize ($40,000) as the country's richest. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Misery, but only in their company Jan 22, 2007
The novelist Frank Moorhouse presented a much more measured critique of Australia in his essay in the September 2006 issue of the Griffith Review. He criticised his colleagues who present "an unwillingness to believe that Australia is seriously threatened by terrorism" and he described the term fascism as "one of the most carelessly used political expressions in Australia". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
