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Don Watson
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Part 1 | Part 2 After revealing the decay of public language in Death Sentence and then compiling the hilarious Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, bestselling author Don Watson turns his acerbic wit to the rise of modern management language, which has invaded every sphere of life. At this Readi... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 After revealing the decay of public language in Death Sentence and then compiling the hilarious Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, bestselling author Don Watson turns his acerbic wit to the rise of modern management language, which has invaded every sphere of life. At this Readin... » play video
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Don Watson | Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Foreign Affairs
The people who built the interstate highways in the 1950s might have done worse to Zanesville: they might have put it right through the centre of town. They could have knocked over the magnificent old four-storey courthouse and straddled the spires of the churches. They could have run the pylons...
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Don Watson | The Nation Reviewed | November 2008 | Foreign Affairs
Sixty-eight-year-old Lloyd Griffin sits on the verandah of his new house in New Orleans' once notorious Ninth Ward. The house is painted in startling deep orange with white trim, and the two-metre stilts on which it stands give Lloyd a view of the new levy on the canal. Workmen come and go,...
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Don Watson | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Politics | Public event | USA | Video | Culture
In this Melbourne Writers Festival session, the impressively credentialled writers Don Watson (American Journeys), Philip Gourevitch (Standard Operating Procedure, The New Yorker) and Dennis Altman (Gore Vidal's America) provide unique perspectives on contemporary America. After their brief pres... » play video
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Don Watson | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Politics | Public event | USA
In this Melbourne Writers Festival session, the impressively credentialled writers Don Watson (American Journeys), Philip Gourevitch (Standard Operating Procedure, The New Yorker) and Dennis Altman (Gore Vidal's America) provide unique perspectives on contemporary America. After their brief pres... » play video
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Don Watson | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Politics | Public event | USA
In this Melbourne Writers Festival session, the impressively credentialled writers Don Watson (American Journeys), Philip Gourevitch (Standard Operating Procedure, The New Yorker) and Dennis Altman (Gore Vidal's America) provide unique perspectives on contemporary America. After their brief pres... » play video
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Don Watson | Humour | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Public event | Video | Culture
American humourists David Sedaris and David Rakoff join Don Watson on the Melbourne Writers Festival stage to address the question, "What's funny about America?" Hosted by Alicia Sometimes.Melbourne, August 2008... » play video
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Don Watson | The Monthly Essays | May 2008 | Society & Culture
In countries like our own it seems possible that, relative to lifestyle, life has less meaning than it used to. Life is for people accustomed to scarcity, risk and struggle - for losers, if you like; lifestyle is for those who live in apparent perennial abundance and are determined to have a slice...
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Don Watson | Adelaide | Literature | Public event | Culture
Tom Keneally launches Don Watson's new work, American Journeys, at Adelaide Writers' Week. Keneally is followed by Don Watson.(31mins)... » play video
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Don Watson | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2007 - Jan 2008 | Society & Culture
EE Cummings prayed that his heart would always be open to little birds. My family, the maternal side especially, has always shared some of his sentiment. It goes back to the clearing of the forest. As the trees went, the little birds came and dwelt in the hydrangeas under the window. Fantails,...
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Imagine for a moment that George Orwell was right when he said that words have precise and specific meanings and we should do our best to stick to them when we speak or write. Orwell argued that "slovenly" language made it harder to think clearly, and as clear thinking is a precondition...
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When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on 7 June, US military officials first said that he was dead when they found him, which is no less than one would expect after two 500-pound bombs landed on the house he was in. Two days later, however, the same officials told journalists that the Iraqi police...
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Back in the early ’90s I could find out about East Timor just by going shopping. The struggling supermarket across the road was run by an East Timorese man and his wife and teenage children. He had fought in the resistance to the invasion and remained a part of it in Melbourne. So long as the...
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Early in the new year I entered a hairdressing salon in the main street of the Victorian Wimmera town of Horsham (not “Hers and Sirs” but the one next to it, if ever you’re looking). At 9.30 in the morning the place was empty, and in no time the hairdresser was fluffing the hair around my ears in...
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