et cetera

There’s a nice studio session from Portland band Grails recorded at VPRO in Amsterdam, available here. (Papertrail originating with the last BoomKat mailout, in which their latest is the album of the week).

I have moved to the greatest city in the world.

A chapter from the novel that decided Patrick White’s Nobel Prize was submitted to a range of publishers and agents in Australia, and rejected by each. The reaction to the fallout from Peter Craven is spot on. See here.