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July 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

In Cold Blood vs. The Bonfire of The Vanities: Non-Fiction Novels and The New Journalism

Truman Capote released In Cold Blood in 1966; Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of The Vanities was published in 1987. Twenty-one years between them, the two books continue to have lasting effect as influential treatises regarding, what Wolfe confirmed by title in his 1973 text of the same name, as ‘The New Journalism’. These two books […]
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August 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 272 – Litcrawl, Wellington, 2018

Litcrawl is Wellington’s coolest (best) literary event, a spectacular, jam-packed with ideas and showcases – and in 2018 I was lucky to be asked to be part of one of the events. Lucky. And shitting myself. Why not both?  The event was called Lit-Sync For Your Life and it featured three readers – I was […]
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October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Litcrawl 2017: Bringing It All Back Home

Litcrawl takes place over the weekend of November 10-12 in various venues across Wellington. And one of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is Bringing It All Back Home, part of the first phase of the crawl, 6pm at MEOW on Saturday, November 11. This session is about the greatest songwriter of the modern […]
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June 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Lecture/Speech is a beautiful thing. It’s already been shared so many times and quoted from. I wanted to include it here – as just another place where you might find it. I’ve listened to it through twice already and will be returning to it again. And again. Everything about it is wonderful – […]
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November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #4 – Bob Dylan

You will have to trust that I was going to write about Bob Dylan anyway. It’s time to mark him down in my files just as I have with Neil Young and Mike Nock and Paul Simon (and you can click those links to read the entries about each of them) in my series “Heroes […]
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November 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The ‘There’s Wally!’ of Rock-Docs: Bono

He’s like Where’s Wally? Except you know exactly where he is; you see him straight away: those glasses, that black leather jacket, the dulcet tones, always telling you that this band changed his life or those words became the ones he studied… He’s the There’s Wally! of music documentaries. And I’m sure you know who […]
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October 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Suzanne Vega: Lover, Beloved – Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers

Suzanne Vega Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers Perpetual Sounds There’s something calming, soothing, reassuring about Suzanne Vega’s voice. That’s been the constant in a career of solid-to-brilliant albums where she’s diversified hugely from that initial “folk-revival” template. From the icy electric guitar treatments on her first album through the 80s-beatnik phase, […]
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May 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Auckland Writers Festival: Satirists at Large – Steve Braunias and David Slack

Satirists at Large: Steve Braunias and David Slack w/ Stephen Stratford Lower NZI Room/Aotea Centre Saturday, March 16 (3.00pm) For this Auckland Writers Festival event Stephen Stratford was the chair, or at least the man in the chair facilitating – flicking questions over in his quirky way to Steve Braunias (NZ Herald writer, ex columnist […]
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