Tag: Susan Brown

Still on that balcony in Vancouver

She is long lost in a black oblivion by now. Three years and seven months lost, as of today. And yet I can’t get her out of my mind.

She supported me while I wrote the Great American Novel, which turned out to be the Not-So-Great Australian Novel.

Like Hemingway said, ‘A man goes broke gradually, and then all at once.’

Je me souviens Luciano Pavarotti — ‘Nessan Dorma’ from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot. Back to the front page