Damon Young

2 weeks ago | killyourdarlings.com.au | Damon Young

Bestselling novelist John Birmingham called this essay of mine the ‘finest work of literary opinion since Nietzsche said the New Testament was God learning to write badly in Greek’. Now that I’ve established my literary mastery once and for all, I want to talk about blurbs, puffs, endorsements. They’re ubiquitous on covers in Anglophone publishing. Plaudits on the front, laudations on the back. Sometimes they’re massed together so tightly they look ‘defensive’, as Hemingway once complained.

Oct 22, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Damon Young

On the last day to register to vote before the election, Rapper and Activist Common made an appearance at Community College of Philadelphia for 'Party at the Polls' an event aimed at boosting voter participation.

Feb 15, 2024 | blackyouthproject.com | Damon Young

By Dr. Eve L. Ewing & Damon YoungBlack Life Everywhere: Chicago, launches with our conversation series spotlighting local cultural and political organizers. This is a prolific and timely discussion between Damon Williams and Dr. Eve Ewing. Listen in as they cover the nuances and celebration of Black Life in Chicago.

Sep 22, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Damon Young

“Madness … is the salt,” novelist Nikos Kazantzakis once wrote, “which prevents good sense from rotting.” Seth – the protagonist of Sebastian Faulks’s new novel The Seventh Son – has only good sense, and this is his vulnerability. Seth is a Neanderthal, born to Londoners Mary and Alaric in the near future. The parents have no idea. Neither does their surrogate, Talissa. They’re all part of a tycoon’s decades-long experiment.

Aug 11, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Damon Young

There’s an art to writing the journalistic yarn, and Walter Marsh has it. Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire is his biography of the youthful Rupert Murdoch, documenting the kingpin’s rise and rise. In plain but far from dull prose, Marsh shows how Murdoch’s father, Keith, tried to leave his son an empire. Instead, young Rupert was the heir to a fight: “His father’s colleagues and rivals were descending on his inheritance like seagulls on a bag of chips.”And how he fought.