An attempt to explore the deep psychology of the Trump phenomenon, by way of Harold Bloom’s notion of the American sublime. Not exactly happy reading, but I didn’t feel I had much choice. Published in Arena Magazine no. 157 (December 2018). All comments welcome
Ahab points to (what else?) a gold doubloon. Remind you of anyone?
Add a little sulphur, and you get something like the following pastiche of The Devil’s Dictionary. Enjoy as you will . . . from Arena Magazine for September.
‘Do you know how to use PowerPoint, Mr Mephistopheles?’
photos by Bec DiNapoli
Before
Selfie in situ by a portly bookseller. It was a very cool shop.
After. ‘Oh brave new world, that has such remainders in’t”. Publisher’s leftovers. Next stop, the pulp mill.
Maria Dahvana Headley: Beowulf
Adaptations of literary classic Beowulf span both page and stage. Maria Dahvana Headley interrogates her contemporary adaptation set in American suburbia, The Mere Wife, with lecturer and wordsmith Robert DiNapoli as they muse together on the beauty of language.
3:30 PM
26/08/2018
Mission to Seafarers Chapel
717 Flinders Street
Docklands
The ship pulpit
The Mission to Seafarers
Man at work
East Village, 2017
No prizes for guessing! No one told me to jump.
Some not so new! But the me is . . .
Here’s a schedule-update for the panel-discussion of the new Beowulf-inspired novel by Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife, on which I will be a contributor. It will happen in ACMI Cinema 1 at Federation Square, Sunday 26 August at 10 am.
