'In Judas Boys, novelist and poet Joel Deane wrestles with the enduring impact of toxic masculinity and institutional abuse. For Patrick Pinnock, it all stems from his short time surviving an exclusive boys high school.' (Introduction)
'Π.O.’s two most recent books were epic in scope and heft. Fitzroy: The Biography was a sprawling history of the Melbourne suburb; Heide, a kaleidoscopic account of art-making and patronage. Both books wielded dizzying accumulations of disparate, sometimes incredible, facts and stories against monolithic authority.' (Introduction)