Tag Archives: diaries
On Writing
On Writing: Ruby Murray
For me, reading and writing are flip sides of the same coin. When I was seven or eight, my parents moved to the South of France to try and save their marriage, which in retrospect seems like a crazy idea, but then: they were crazy. We lived … Read more
Books
Summer Reading: The Donald Friend Diaries – Chronicles and Confessions of an Australian Artist (ed. Ian Britain)
For a man who is known principally as a visual artist, Donald Friend’s written work has received extraordinary praise. In the foreword to Text’s 2010 edition of Friend’s diaries, Barry Humphries brands the work ‘among the most evocative and amusing writings in all of Australian literature’. … Read more
