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'When he was at school in Melbourne, film director Nicholas Verso was almost expelled for being a goth. "I blackened everything," he says. "Lashes, eyebrows: it was a big commitment." ...'
Note: Includes portraits of Australian director Nicholas Verso
'Kim Mahood, an artist who writes exceptionally well, is fond of the expression "paying attention". As is fitting. In her Craft for a Dry Lake (2000), a prize-winning memoir about growing up on a cattle station called Mongrel Downs, at the western edge of the Tanami Desert in northern Australia, she was paying attention to the way her father, the "outback", and the Aboriginal people shaped her. ...'
'... The House on the Hill is built like the earlier memoirs around a new home, and written with the same conversational frankness, self-deprecating amusement, and sensual love of place. ...'
