David Marr is the author of Patrick White: a Life and The High Price of Heaven, and wrote Dark Victory with Marian Wilkinson. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has written for the National Times and the Bulletin, and has been a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC-TV's Media Watch. He now writes for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Pub date: November 2008
RRP: $29.95
ISBN: 9781863952798
Imprint: Black Inc.
Format: PB
Size: 210 x 135mm
Extent: 352pp
The Best Australian Essays 2008
It was the year of Wall Street's collapse and Australia's apology, of a film-world tragedy and an art-world scandal. In Best Australian Essays 2008, David Marr has selected great writing from a turbulent time. With eyewitness accounts from crisis zones and film sets, deserts and campaign trails, and tales of failing banks and wounded birds, hitchhiking and footy jumpers, mourning brothers and raising children, music, media, art, love and obscenity, these wonderful essays paint a vivid picture of the year that was.
"In the end, I trusted gut feeling most when picking these essays ... writing that made me laugh, reminded me of times I'd forgotten, or took me places I'd always wanted to go." —David Marr
Videos
Play videoDavid Marr launches Nicolas Rothwell's The Red Highway
David Marr with Annabel Crabb, on Malcolm Turnbull
