Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
My feed is populated by irrelevant posts; unrequested, unrequired, mostly needing a requiem. Plucking interesting, possibly relevant ones, is a dicey game of hit and miss. So when a woman talks about the complexities of her marriage publicly, it moves …
It’s important, nay a prerequisite, to be briefed about current state of affairs . This novel written in 1984 by Italian author Andrea de Carlo is prophetic in its prescience about dictatorships, with a twist. Satire has always been a …
We perhaps should tread wearily engaged in our easy lives, unconcerned by the hard life that people of earlier years had to endure. Robert’s wife dies of encephalitis; his daughter of the Mexican flue outbreak that all but wiped out …
Didactic utopias are easy to mock and criticise, which is probably why dystopia has become a more popular genre. I have trouble thinking more than twenty years ahead without the ugly sceptre of pessimism cantering my brain and its …
An unexploded World War II-era bomb is unearthed early on in the twisty, propulsive FUZE. What gradually becomes apparent is that the men in its radius possess the same hair-trigger volatility. At its core the director David Mackenzie derives …
If ever a novel was prescient about what is occurring in America now, then this book written by Sinclair Lewis is the one hooting its clarion call. In 1930, Sinclair became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for …
Its the summer of 1967, and three families head away for a beach holiday trailing their cares and woes. Roy and Coral are grieving the loss of a son killed in Vietnam. Harry and vic want one last happy holiday …
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My introduction to J.M. Barrie’s The ADMIRABLE CRICHTON was thanks to the 1957 version starring Kenneth More seen on a Sunday matinee. Crichton is an odd sort of story. It was described as “a …
Safety and security is what Australia of the mid 90’s offered her family, the author Raya Goldtwig reminisces about her childhood driven by war and genocide. She is a living witness to her family’s experiences and endurance of the horrors …
We have heard over the years rumours, innuendos and furtive stories about our beloved Luna Park and its history. Like the author, Helen Pitt, many visitors remember childhood or adolescent trips to the iconic amusement Park, nestled by the harbour, …