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'John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.
'The pieces contained within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald Trump is the President of the USA. And it does not shy away from the greatest controversy of our age: potato cake vs potato scallop.
'These hilarious pieces cover a wide range of topics from food to fitness and politics to pork, in all its glories. And, of course, fashion. Ever the equal opportunist, John Birmingham skewers them all.' (Publication summary)
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Don’t Laugh, This Is Serious
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 December 2017; (p. 23)
— Review of Stranger Thingies : From Felafel to Now 2017 selected work short story essay'John Birmingham pinched all the indie cred in 1994 with He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, a sharply funny share-house memoir. Since then, Brisbane-based Birmingham has been prolific in diverse genres: a guide to writing, two Quarterly Essays, airport thrillers and sci-fi fantasies, as well as a regular newspaper column.' (Introduction)
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Don’t Laugh, This Is Serious
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 December 2017; (p. 23)
— Review of Stranger Thingies : From Felafel to Now 2017 selected work short story essay'John Birmingham pinched all the indie cred in 1994 with He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, a sharply funny share-house memoir. Since then, Brisbane-based Birmingham has been prolific in diverse genres: a guide to writing, two Quarterly Essays, airport thrillers and sci-fi fantasies, as well as a regular newspaper column.' (Introduction)
