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The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward

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September 1993, no. 154

The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward

University of Queensland Press, $32.95 hb

The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward

by
September 1993, no. 154

Well I’m damned! Ern Malley of all people! It’s been fifty years since I last laid eyes on him. Seeing him again recalls my vanished youth as nothing else could. Angry Penguins, Cecily Crozier’s valiant Comment magazine, the ‘social realists’ upbraiding everyone like so many Marxist Savonarolas, the Jindyworobakians quarrelling with the ‘cosmopolitans’, the Contemporary Arts Society quarrelling with itself – stirring times! But Ern was the epicentre of our cultural storm in a teacup.

Alister Kershaw reviews 'The Ern Malley Affair' by Michael Heyward

The Ern Malley Affair

by Michael Heyward

University of Queensland Press, $32.95 hb

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