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'I was listening to the jazz on the radio one morning, when some tracks from Bernie McGann’s album Bundeena were played. And the presenter remarked how Bernie McGann used to live at Bundeena in the 1960s and practised the saxophone out in the bush there. And I suddenly remembered, yes, I had written a story about Bundeena in the 1960s. Frank Moorhouse was living there, and I had arranged to go and visit him. Except that when I arrived it turned out he had stayed in town. His girlfriend was there, and I remember her telling me about swimming and sunbathing on the beach and hearing this amazing jazz saxophone playing in the bush. It was an image that struck me, and I incorporated it in a story I wrote about the occasion, ‘Joe’s Absence’. It was an image that stayed with me, and I was amazed to have its reality confirmed. Much of the story I wrote is fictionalized. But it was good to have the veracity of this one detail confirmed, decades after the event.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

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    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 48-49
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