Guy Rundle Guy Rundle i(A2799 works by)
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1 The Elusiveness of Young Donald Guy Rundle , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , Spring no. 15 2023; (p. 84-87)

— Review of Donald Horne : A Life in the Lucky Country Ryan Cropp , 2023 single work biography
'The bookshop in the Berlin high street was, like any bookshop in any Berlin high street, four or five times better and more comprehensive than its Anglo - sphere counterparts. The ‘Australian and New Zealand’ section was small compared to the large Asian section it appended, but it was there. Among a random selection of novels by novelists from Bryce Courtney to Gail Jones, a trio of Christos, and no poets I’d heard of was the in evitable, ugh, The Lucky Country . It was the section’s sole volume of social commentary aside from the inevitable Mutant Message Down Under , a reprint that was now itself fifteen years old. This was 2012. Had das buch buyers been able to find nothing more current to represent us than this—with, if memory serves, its Sidney Nolan cover—response to the Australia of Robert Menzies? Apparently not. Here we were amid the postmodern Kosovo poets and deluxe BDSM photo essay collections, permanently waiting to realise our potential, a ‘lucky country, of second rate men, who s hare its luck’.' (Introduction)
1 1 y separately published work icon Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage : Writings on Australia Guy Rundle , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2021 22592383 2021 multi chapter work essay

'With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010s

'From the coal blockade frontline of the Liverpool Plains to Hobart's Cat and Fiddle arcade, from being on the road with last chance Malcolm Turnbull to the fossil fuel fantasies of Adaniland in the north, Guy Rundle gives a first-hand history of Australia in the 2010s, after the brief and hopeful haha insurgency of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era and the descent of another decade of reaction. Through multiple elections, rubbing shoulders with the major players and upstart independents, Rundle describes a country changing and fracturing as the global wave of populism swept across conventional politics, and the culture wars solidified. He goes into battle, both against a corrupt, cynical and nihilistic right, and an increasingly elitist and fantastical progressivism. And he steps back into the past, looking at how we got to here, in memoirs and analyses of the shifting personal, cultural and political faultlines of the past half century.

'Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage is a raw, thoughtful, very funny and sometimes moving account of a nation dependent on the continuing good graces of history and the plain old dumb luck that is the land's curse.' (Publication summary)

1 Farewell to Arena Printing Guy Rundle , Melinda Hinkson , Simon Cooper , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Arena Quarterly , no. 3 2020; (p. 70)
1 Quemoy and Matsu i "One evening coming back across the Fitzroy Gardens", Guy Rundle , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 79 no. 3 2020;
1 Callback Setup in the Funny Factory : Sketch Comedy, Full Frontal and the Last Days of Mass Culture Guy Rundle , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 102-111)
'This is an insult! I’m a professional.’ Halfway through day one of week 15 of the third season of Australia’s biggest sketch-comedy show, and the A-list comedienne had had enough. She was tired of crappy roles and crappy scripts. Now here she was at the door of the writers room, giving us hell. She was a goodish writer herself, but none of her stuff—loose, aleatoric in the Melbourne cabaret style— was being used any more. She had a right to be angry and the only thing that took the edge off her protest was that she was dressed as a giant rotisserie chicken. Even as she was denouncing us, I was admiring the skill of our costume department, who had rendered oily skin and white meat with a bit of chintz and kapok.' (Introduction)
1 An Australian Narrative Guy Rundle , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December no. 163 2019; (p. 44-47)

'Trying to disentangle the recent history of Australia from its mythical past sometimes seems akin to labouring under the lights in Ceaușescu's enormous national kitsch factory, Romania's Palace of People, trying to sort plaster myth from real ornament. But it also seems a good time to try to do so, as this magazine of Australian commentary changes its form once again from one begun three decades ago. For that is when the Australia now before us was brought into being. Trying to untangle what we are now from the recent past, the real past and the mythical past seems essential to future action.' (Introduction)

 

1 Everytime I See You Falling : Melbourne, Postmodernism and How Today’s Politics Were Born in the 1980s Guy Rundle , 2018 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 77 no. 4 2018; (p. 90-102)

'We were … well, who were we? It was a floating group of 25 or so leftists, radical leftists, ultra-leftists from around Melbourne Uni, people dressed in black, a style still univocal and of a post-punk form: hair close-cropped around the edges, but piled high, boys wearing black jeans and black or dark-blue shirts, buttoned to the neck, girls in a near-compulsory style for a few years: black tights, black skivvy, a highly patterned, op-shop–derived, short skirt over the tights, and a haircut in which one side was shaved, and the other half grew long to the shoulder, bobbed. It appears to have returned a few years ago as a style—in our era, one among a hundred—but for a couple of years it was semi-compulsory, at least among our gang. Then it was the only game in town. Gender fluidity, which had been around in the seventies, had retreated, even with the success of The Cure. We were looking to … well that was the question.' (Introduction)

1 The Man on a Mission to Remake a Whole Country Guy Rundle , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 December 2015; (p. 27) The Saturday Age , 12-13 December 2015; (p. 35)

— Review of Keating Kerry O'Brien , 2015 selected work interview biography
1 L'état, C'est Charlie Guy Rundle , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2015 2015;
1 Burning Men : An American Triptych Guy Rundle , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2014 2014; (p. 236-252)
1 Review : Amnesia Guy Rundle , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 106 2014; (p. 54)

— Review of Amnesia Peter Carey , 2014 single work novel
1 Robert Hughes, an Obituary Guy Rundle , 2012 single work obituary (for Robert Hughes )
— Appears in: Crikey , 7 August 2012;
1 The Tales, the Sales Guy Rundle , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2010; (p. 6)
1 The Culturestate Guy Rundle , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 69 no. 2 2010; (p. 56-63) The Best Australian Essays 2010 2010; (p. 62-73)
1 3 Godzone Max Gillies , Guy Rundle , 2009 single work drama humour

'There's a fervour in the revivalist tent, where Reverend Kevin of Rudd Ministries, in a sermon from the German translated via Mandarin, tells his congregation that religion is the new politics and vice versa. Called up to testify, his guests, drawn from the Great and the Good, will each bear witness to the powerful spirit moving across this land.

'Folly is his piñata. Max Gillies has been pricking pomp, slaughtering sacred cows and beating up bête noirs for decades. In Godzone his trail of destruction continues with a new cast of victims.'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company website, http://www.mtc.com.au/
Sighted: 10/12/2009

1 Review of the Week Guy Rundle , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 November 2009; (p. 24)

— Review of Lovesong Alex Miller , 2009 single work novel
1 Book Import Laws are Madness Based on Delusion Guy Rundle , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 September 2009; (p. 19)
1 Role-Playing Rite of Passage Guy Rundle , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 January 2008; (p. 3)
1 Cultural Studies Guy Rundle , 2007 single work drama satire
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 August 2007; (p. 12)
1 The Right Wing Guy Rundle , 2007 single work drama satire
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 July 2007; (p. 11)
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