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Six nights of hospital dinners, with culinary notes & ratings... Day #1: Rustic vegie patty squatting beneath sweet potato triplets, with flung rice & 1950s horticultural medley Taste: 8/10. Amazing (hadn't eaten for 24 hours) Plating: 3/10. Colourful, nothing visibly squashed

In which I drink champagne as though my life depended on it open.substack.com/pub/drmichelle…

First day of Spring here & if you sat still enough you could watch the plants unfurling, hear them skirl as life erupts. Vivaldi should be playing full pelt in the background. Hobbits should be tidying up the village ready for parties. Yes, it's temporary, but it still, well, is

Oh, how arterial you are, vast northern Australia, with your beefy rivers overhung with the loneliness of a padded cloud or two. How temporary, and for that, so preposterously precious

If you find yourself in Darwin, may I recommend, with my entire transported, moved heart, this tour. Not just the story of a Gaol, or Darwin, or Australia’s brute recent past, but the story of humanity. Incredible.

Again, who writes like Rick Morton ?open.substack.com/pub/rickmorton… A squiggly sucker punch

Listening to the testimony at the Covid Inquiry by Dr Kevin Fong, such gratitude for all our UK colleagues who warned us in Australia of what was to come. Thanks to ANZCA and The Australian Society of Anaesthetists for their advocacy in keeping us safe. #CovidInquiry

oh, how I adore Sarah Krasnostein thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/televi…

And anaesthetists shall refer to drug concentrations in mg/mL, unless they are local anaesthetics, when they shall be referred to as percentages, or adrenaline, which shall be expressed as a ratios. Why is that, sir? Nobody knows.

This really reads like the universe is being a big dramatic bitch about it.

These beautiful words by the beautiful Rebecca Solnit: "...what we care about is what we love. And we love so much more than the narrow version of who we are acknowledges: we love justice, love truth, love freedom, love equality, love the confidence that comes with secure human

Amazing America, out there voting for hope, at the very least. Go you good things, knowing what’s at stake for us all.

Good luck, America.

When Maria Popova explores the words of Loren Eiseley, the result is anthemic for our times - we complicated, absurd, magnificent humans, stardusted and inextricably part of the sum of us all.

Deal news! It's a great thrill to announce that the extraordinary "The Revisionists", the third, completely unputdownable novel by Michelle Johnston, has been acquired by 4th Estate Books/HarperCollins Aus! booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/…

"Catherine Milne said: ‘I read this novel in 2 sittings, in a rush of adrenalin, excitement & deep admiration. MJ is such a deeply empathetic, precise, elegant & intelligent writer—but one who also knows how to pull a reader into a story, & not let them go."

One for your calendars: two shining stars of the OZ literary firmament are sharing the stage! Namely Angela O'Keeffe is interviewing Michelle Johnston regarding her (stunning!) new novel Kinokuniya Sydney on July 17 events.humanitix.com/an-evening-wit…

Mad thrilled to have The Revisionists as Apple's 'What To Read This Month' book. Want a story about love and war and Dagestan and bad decisions and money and the malleability of memory? You could do worse :-) Apple Books apple.co/WhatToReadThis… apple.co/new-release-pi…