While living and working in Edinburgh in 2008 I set out to write one million words in 366 days... but only managed 800,737.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Great Moments in Shuffle #2
Bob Dylan – ‘All Along the Watchtower’
Jimi Hendrix – ‘All Along the Watchtower’
FOOTNOTE: My iPod did not see fit to throw up either Paul Weller’s version of ‘All Along the Watchtower’ (from Studio 150) or The Fratellis’ (from the Radio 1 Establish 1967 compilation).That would have just been too trippy.
What’s strange is that I have four versions of this one Dylan song, which is okay, but isn’t his best by a long way.Dylan himself said that Hendrix’s version was superior (the only cover of one of his songs which he bestowed this honour upon, at the time)… and yet the Weller and Fratellis versions hark back to the Dylan more than the Hendrix.I guess no one wants to stand in Hendrix’s aural shadow.A pity, I think.
My short story collection, A MAN MELTING, won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book.
My novel THE MANNEQUIN MAKERS was published in 2013 in Australia and New Zealand, a Romanian translation came out in 2016, the US edition came out at the end of 2017 and the UK edition dropped in 2019.
My latest book is NAILING DOWN THE SAINT, a novel about fatherhood, Hollywood and levitation (Vintage, August 2019).
"For anyone interested in New Zealand writing, this is a book worth picking up." David Larsen, NZ Herald 29/09/08 (full review here)
"If you only have time for one new local writer in your life then make it Sue Orr." Nicky Pellegrino, NZ Herald 15/09/08 (full review here).
"In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it’d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
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