The saturday portraits
Clarke, Maxine Beneba2019
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The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national newspaper, The Saturday Paper. The next four years will be a journalistic baptism of fire. She will come face to face with Prime Minister Tony Abbott; spend exactly nine minutes with Hollywood film star Hugh Jackman; write a love letter to Prince; be escorted out of David Jones for stalking Santa Claus; watch transgender porn star Buck Angel striptease; eat slut cupcakes with feminist Karen Pickering; troll a local racist fried chicken eatery; hold audience with the Australian Ambassador to China; covertly profile One Plus One presenter Jane Hutcheons; share the stage with writer Roxane Gay; sip green tea with dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and exchange emails with President Obama. These are The Saturday Portraits.
Main title:
The saturday portraits / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019.
Collation:
258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : plates, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780733632723
Dewey class:
070.44
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
363040
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 070.44 CLA | Available |