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No PhotoShop.">Images from Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo27" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/travel-books-by-graham-reid/" title="A link to Graham's award-winning 2006 collection of acclaimed travel stories, and more">Travel Books by Elsewhere's Graham Reid<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo28" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/travelstories/" title="True tales of odd destinations, weirdness, and the dirt cheap. Or unaffordably expensive.">Travels in Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo29" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/windows/" title="From the window of every room he stays in when travelling Graham takes a photo. The sublime and the seriously ugly.">Windows on Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo30" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/somethingelsewhere/" title="Short stories, satires, stuff and nonsense">Something Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo31" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/wallart/" title="Graffiti, street art, strange signs and murals from Elsewhere">Wall-Art from Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo32" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/recipes/" title="Cool culinary ideas picked up in Elsewhere, with welcome contributions from Elsewhere visitors.">Recipes from Elsewhere<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo33" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/shanio/" title="Elsewhere offers this occasional EP column by the informed Shani O">EPs by Shani.O<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo34" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/biography/" title="Biography and CV">Graham Reid<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo35" class="" ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/contact/" title="Contact">Contact<span></span></a></li> <li id="itemNo36" class="last " ><a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/links/" title="A list of links to music, travel and arts sites of interest to Elsewhere readers">Links to Somewhere else<span></span></a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <section id="main" class="col-md-7 col-sm-9"> <article id="content"> <h1 id="h1" class="entry-title">Writing in Elsewhere</h1> <p><strong>Books, authors, spoken word and poetry which may appeal to the curious spirit of Elsewhere.</strong></p><p class="note"><a href="subscribe/">Subscribe</a> to my newsletter for weekly updates.</p> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11328/we-all-shine-on-john-yoko-and-me-by-elliot-mintz/' title="WE ALL SHINE ON; JOHN, YOKO & ME by ELLIOT MINTZ"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/shine.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11328/we-all-shine-on-john-yoko-and-me-by-elliot-mintz/'>WE ALL SHINE ON; JOHN, YOKO & ME by ELLIOT MINTZ</a></h3> <p class="date"> 4 Nov 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 4 min read</span></p> <p>For a man who, by his own account, spent many hundreds of hours talking with Yoko Ono and John Lennon – on the phone, in person in LA, New York and on a trip to Japan – radio host Elliott Mintz isn't able to tell us much new in this conversational autobiography. In Lennon-Ono lore, Mintz is a storied off-sider who first came into their world (more correctly them into his) when... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11328/we-all-shine-on-john-yoko-and-me-by-elliot-mintz/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11292/future-jaw-clap-by-daniel-beban/' title="FUTURE JAW-CLAP by DANIEL BEBAN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/Screenshot_2024-10-02_at_9.41.14_AM.png" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11292/future-jaw-clap-by-daniel-beban/'>FUTURE JAW-CLAP by DANIEL BEBAN</a></h3> <p class="date">30 Oct 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 6 min read</span></p> <p>If you weren't there at the time and looked at just what some today say New Zealand music was in the Eighties, you'd probably conclude it was only Flying Nun, some reggae, mainstream pop and a few noisy underground guitar bands. But there was a lot more than that reductive view allows. There was a significant experimental scene, in Auckland most visible with the people around Ivan Zagni... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11292/future-jaw-clap-by-daniel-beban/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11323/kingmaker-by-sonia-purnell/' title="KINGMAKER by SONIA PURNELL"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9780349014739.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11323/kingmaker-by-sonia-purnell/'>KINGMAKER by SONIA PURNELL</a></h3> <p class="date">28 Oct 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 5 min read</span></p> <p>Pamela Digby did not marry well but she did, in a way, marry wisely. Everyone warned her off Randolph whom she had only been with a few times before she agreed to his proposal. Both wanted marriage: she because as a plain, dumpy redhead who had been passed over in her coming-out season; he because with the war coming he wanted to sire a son before he was sent off. Randolph was a... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11323/kingmaker-by-sonia-purnell/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11306/adventures-in-modern-recording-by-trevor-horn/' title="ADVENTURES IN MODERN RECORDING by TREVOR HORN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/51ozfxB-PIL._SL1250_.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11306/adventures-in-modern-recording-by-trevor-horn/'>ADVENTURES IN MODERN RECORDING by TREVOR HORN</a></h3> <p class="date">14 Oct 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>Acclaimed and award-winning producer Trevor Horn probably long ago resigned himself to the fact that the first paragraph of his obituaries would invariably mention Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles. It was a massive one-off hit for Horn and others, a studio band which never played live but – with the video which was the first played on the new MTV channel – became... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11306/adventures-in-modern-recording-by-trevor-horn/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11281/the-men-who-killed-the-news-by-eric-beecher/' title="THE MEN WHO KILLED THE NEWS by ERIC BEECHER"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/Screenshot_2024-09-24_at_1.08.13_PM.png" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11281/the-men-who-killed-the-news-by-eric-beecher/'>THE MEN WHO KILLED THE NEWS by ERIC BEECHER</a></h3> <p class="date">24 Sep 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>Anyone who watched the Succession series, is following the real-life replay as media mogul Rupert Murdoch goes to war against some of his children or found on a streaming service Faking Hitler (about the fraudulent “Hitler diaries”), will find this book a compelling account of the venal, manipulative and self-interested men who have controlled and corrupted the traditional media... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11281/the-men-who-killed-the-news-by-eric-beecher/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11268/bookshop-prayers-by-paul-mclaney/' title="BOOKSHOP PRAYERS by PAUL McLANEY"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/a1020563556_10.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11268/bookshop-prayers-by-paul-mclaney/'>BOOKSHOP PRAYERS by PAUL McLANEY</a></h3> <p class="date"> 9 Sep 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>Although better known as a musician – an impressive number of albums under various guises – Auckland's Paul McLaney surprised recently with the beautifully presented little book The Deep Dark Hole/The Faint Glimmer of Hope which was designed like a physical metaphor of a journey into depression and, when flipped over, the pathway out. It was a lovely, thoughtful and useful book.... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11268/bookshop-prayers-by-paul-mclaney/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">The Tide</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/Paul McLaney Jeff Boyle - Bookshop Prayers Volume I - 01 The Tide.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11266/earth-to-moon-by-moon-unit-zappa/' title="EARTH TO MOON by MOON UNIT ZAPPA"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9781474623841.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11266/earth-to-moon-by-moon-unit-zappa/'>EARTH TO MOON by MOON UNIT ZAPPA</a></h3> <p class="date"> 9 Sep 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>When Moon Unit Zappa went to college she felt sorry for the kids because they had to share their name with other people, and she couldn't believe that some of the kids' parents had divorced because of infidelity. Her dad Frank had serial relationships with women other than his wife Gail, sometimes these women staying in the family home. “It's just fucking,” he says. But... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11266/earth-to-moon-by-moon-unit-zappa/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11257/chasing-me-to-my-grave-by-winfred-rembert/' title="CHASING ME TO MY GRAVE by WINFRED REMBERT"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/cover_chasing-me-to-my-grave_custom-c2f36be375f9c835c2f9c43425101deb7465b5c7.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11257/chasing-me-to-my-grave-by-winfred-rembert/'>CHASING ME TO MY GRAVE by WINFRED REMBERT</a></h3> <p class="date"> 2 Sep 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>It is said that history is written by the winners, and that is largely true. But it is also written by academics with access to files. Notes, documents and the work of other academics. Many of these researchers are dedicated and intent of getting to the multi-dimension truths of events. A writer/researcher like Antony Beaver is someone whose view from the battlefield to the cabinet... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11257/chasing-me-to-my-grave-by-winfred-rembert/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11233/uncompromising-expression-blue-note-by-richard-havers/' title="UNCOMPROMISING EXPRESSION; BLUE NOTE by RICHARD HAVERS"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9780500296516.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11233/uncompromising-expression-blue-note-by-richard-havers/'>UNCOMPROMISING EXPRESSION; BLUE NOTE by RICHARD HAVERS</a></h3> <p class="date">13 Aug 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>Although there have been a number of books dedicated to the history of the influential American jazz label Blue Note -- and a few just dealing with the innovative, singular cover designs -- there's still a place for this contentious, large-format 400-page paperback which comes with more than 600 illustrations of album covers, studio shots and reproductions from contact sheets. In a clear... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11233/uncompromising-expression-blue-note-by-richard-havers/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">Queen of the Sea, by Norah Jones</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/2_04 Queen of the Sea.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11230/3-shades-of-blue-by-james-kaplan/' title="3 SHADES OF BLUE by JAMES KAPLAN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/713WQ70oeyL._SL1500_.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11230/3-shades-of-blue-by-james-kaplan/'>3 SHADES OF BLUE by JAMES KAPLAN</a></h3> <p class="date"> 9 Aug 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>The opening sentence here is the kind of summation which would normally appear at the end of a review, but let's get it out of the way quickly. If you only buy one book on jazz this year, make it this one. Subtitled “Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool” it is by James Kaplan who delivered the magisterial two volumes on Frank Sinatra's life,... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11230/3-shades-of-blue-by-james-kaplan/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11207/nuclear-war-a-scenario-by-annie-jacobsen/' title="NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO by ANNIE JACOBSEN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/Screenshot_2024-07-22_at_10.39.59_AM.png" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11207/nuclear-war-a-scenario-by-annie-jacobsen/'>NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO by ANNIE JACOBSEN</a></h3> <p class="date">22 Jul 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>Good evening and welcome to the world's most terrifying pub quiz. Strap yourself in because this is going to be a white-knuckle ride. Your starter for 10 . . . In 1946 a year after the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the USA had nine atomic bombs. How many did it have six years later in 1952? a] 19    b] 89.   c] 501   d] 841 Good guess, the answer is a... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11207/nuclear-war-a-scenario-by-annie-jacobsen/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">Infinite Mind, by Justin DeHart</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/02 Infinite Mind Pt. 1 Terminal.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11194/me-and-mr-jones-by-suzi-ronson/' title="ME AND MR JONES by SUZI RONSON"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9780571371846.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11194/me-and-mr-jones-by-suzi-ronson/'>ME AND MR JONES by SUZI RONSON</a></h3> <p class="date">12 Jul 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>In the early Seventies, Suzi Fussey was living a conventional life at 96 Cumberland Road in suburban London with her mum, dad and brother. She'd quit school at 15, took a course at Evelyn Paget College of Hair and Beauty in Bromley, got a job in Beckenham, sees bands like the young Pink Floyd and Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, likes to get a bit creative with hairstyles because that was... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11194/me-and-mr-jones-by-suzi-ronson/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, by Mick Ronson</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/07 Slaughter On Tenth Avenue.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11187/under-a-rock-a-memoir-by-chris-stein/' title="UNDER A ROCK; A MEMOIR by CHRIS STEIN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/814T87MVZaL._SL1500_.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11187/under-a-rock-a-memoir-by-chris-stein/'>UNDER A ROCK; A MEMOIR by CHRIS STEIN</a></h3> <p class="date"> 3 Jul 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>There's a widespread and understandable belief that the chasm between San Francisco's hippies in the late Sixties and the New Wave kids hanging out at New York's CBGB's in the late Seventies was so wide as to be unbridgeable. Two culture separated by a decade and very different ideas. Yet Chris Stein of Blondie – one of the most successful of the skinny tie, dark suit and classy... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11187/under-a-rock-a-memoir-by-chris-stein/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11166/hellfire-evelyn-waugh-and-the-hypocrites-club-by-david-fleming/' title="HELLFIRE: EVELYN WAUGH AND THE HYPOCRITES CLUB by DAVID FLEMING"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/Screenshot_2024-06-11_at_4.22.53_PM.png" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11166/hellfire-evelyn-waugh-and-the-hypocrites-club-by-david-fleming/'>HELLFIRE: EVELYN WAUGH AND THE HYPOCRITES CLUB by DAVID FLEMING</a></h3> <p class="date">17 Jun 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>Those lucky enough to go to university in the Sixties or Seventies can reflect on halcyon days when a bursary or scholarship made life easier, there were plenty of casual jobs available in holidays and you could have a relaxed attitude all year until a few weeks out from the final exams. The economic slide, changes in the education system in schools and on-going internal assessment at uni... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11166/hellfire-evelyn-waugh-and-the-hypocrites-club-by-david-fleming/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11164/down-with-the-system-by-serj-tankain/' title="DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM by SERJ TANKAIN"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/51vWHHMwYoL.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11164/down-with-the-system-by-serj-tankain/'>DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM by SERJ TANKAIN</a></h3> <p class="date">14 Jun 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>Those who only recognise the name Serj Tankian as a singer in the explosive, socio-political heavy rock band System of a Down may gravitate to this “memoir (of sorts)” because they want to hear tales of touring, decadence and the rock'n'roll life style. Others might avoid it for the same reason. Both parties will be surprised by this fascinating book because it largely... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11164/down-with-the-system-by-serj-tankain/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">Chop Suey!, by System of a Down</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/06 Chop Suey!.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11147/when-we-was-fab-inside-the-beatles-australasian-tour-1964-by-andy-neill-and-greg-armstrong/' title="WHEN WE WAS FAB: INSIDE THE BEATLES AUSTRALASIAN TOUR 1964 by ANDY NEILL and GREG ARMSTRONG"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9781922800688-1.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11147/when-we-was-fab-inside-the-beatles-australasian-tour-1964-by-andy-neill-and-greg-armstrong/'>WHEN WE WAS FAB: INSIDE THE BEATLES AUSTRALASIAN TOUR 1964 by ANDY NEILL and GREG ARMSTRONG</a></h3> <p class="date"> 3 Jun 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 4 min read</span></p> <p>The Beatles' story never seems to tire in the telling and retelling. Even small events can be illuminated by new information or previously unheard recordings, once marginal characters can suddenly appear in the spotlight. The debate to name The Fifth Beatle will probably carry on long after we're all gone. The events of the Beatles' 1964 tour in New Zealand – 60 years ago this... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11147/when-we-was-fab-inside-the-beatles-australasian-tour-1964-by-andy-neill-and-greg-armstrong/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="previewtrack"> <h5 class="previewtitle">Yeah Yeah We Love Them All, by Dinah Lee (1964)</h5> <audio class="audioplayer" controls="controls" controlsList="nodownload"> <source src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/downloads/mp3s/01 Yeah Yeah We Love Them All.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11150/james-by-percival-everett/' title="JAMES by PERCIVAL EVERETT"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/311746351.jpeg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11150/james-by-percival-everett/'>JAMES by PERCIVAL EVERETT</a></h3> <p class="date">29 May 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 2 min read</span></p> <p>If this provocative, award-winning novel were ever adapted for film the temptation for the soundtrack composer would be, when we reach the final significant words, to deliver a swell of emotional, uplifting orchestration as if redemption had been delivered. That would be wrong. This version of aspects of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are seen through the eyes of... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11150/james-by-percival-everett/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11134/the-dictionary-people-by-sarah-ogilvie/' title="THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE by SARAH OGILVIE"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9781784744939.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11134/the-dictionary-people-by-sarah-ogilvie/'>THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE by SARAH OGILVIE</a></h3> <p class="date">13 May 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>One of the most popular books of the early 2000s – the readers' enthusiasm spread by word-of-mouth – was The Surgeon of Crowthorne by the well-known journalist and travel writer Simon Winchester. Subtitled “A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words”, it was a non-fiction account of the American Dr William Chester Minor who had moved to London in 1871 and, in a... <a href="https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11134/the-dictionary-people-by-sarah-ogilvie/" class="links" title="View full article" rel="nofollow">> Read more</a></p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article infinite-item"> <a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11115/the-achilles-trap-by-steve-coll/' title="THE ACHILLES TRAP by STEVE COLL"><img src="https://elsewhere.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/images/s290/articles/9780241686652.jpg" alt="" class="main-image float-right" width="290" height="290" /></a> <h3><a href='https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/writingelsewhere/11115/the-achilles-trap-by-steve-coll/'>THE ACHILLES TRAP by STEVE COLL</a></h3> <p class="date">27 Apr 2024  |  <span class="readtime"><span class="fa fa-bookmark"></span> 3 min read</span></p> <p>We might as well admit it. 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