Luke Johnson

1 week ago | ro.uow.edu.au | Luke Johnson

In 1922, self-exiled English novelist D.H. Lawrence arrived on Australian shores with his German wife Frieda. Travelling by steamboat from Italy to New Mexico via Sri Lanka, the pair disembarked in Sydney to spend a bit of time rediscovering their land legs. Lawrence was already a well-known writer by this point, with works such as Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow having been published in the decade before. However, this is to say little of his and Frieda’s financial situation.

1 week ago | ro.uow.edu.au | Luke Johnson

In the final pages of her memoir Datsun Angel, writer and filmmaker Anna Broinowski identifies the book as a “call-to-arms critique [of] the eighties patriarchy”. She questions whether women like herself – that is, the well-educated, sexually liberated beneficiaries of second-wave feminism – are really better off than their 1940s counterparts.

1 week ago | theconversation.com | Luke Johnson

In 2018, it was announced that Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) would be made into a “high-end drama series” by FremantleMedia. Jo Porter, Fremantle’s director of drama, called the novel “ripe for screen adaptation with huge visual potential and scale”. A somewhat more circumspect Flanagan referred to “the depth and the occasional brilliance of which the form [television] is now capable”. My italics.

2 weeks ago | saintsreport.com | Luke Johnson

You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starterBY LUKE JOHNSON | Staff writerStart date25 minutes agoBY LUKE JOHNSON | Staff writerGuest PROSSER, Wash. — Jump into the charcoal gray pickup truck that belongs to the unofficial Mayor of Prosser. There are important people to talk to, and there are things to see.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Luke Johnson

PROSSER, Wash. — Jump into the charcoal gray pickup truck that belongs to the unofficial Mayor of Prosser. There are important people to talk to, and there are things to see. Lanky and gray-haired, Mark Little punctuates his free-flowing chatter with wisecracks and crooked grins, giving him a mischievous air that belies his upcoming 70th birthday.