The Saturday Portraits
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The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national newspaper, THE SATURDAY PAPER. The next four years will be a journalistic baptism of fire. She will come face to face with Prime Minister Tony Abbott; spend exactly nine minutes with Hollywood film star Hugh Jackman; write a love letter to Prince; be escorted out of David Jones for stalking Santa Claus; watch porn star Buck Angel striptease; eat slut cupcakes with feminist Karen Pickering; troll a local racist fried chicken eatery; hold audience with the Australian Ambassador to China; covertly profile One Plus One presenter Jane Hutcheon; share the stage with writer Roxane Gay; sip green tea with dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and exchange emails with President Obama.
These are The Saturday Portraits.
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Praise for The Saturday Portraits
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a powerful and fearless storyteller - Dave Eggers, international bestselling author
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Maxine's writing is incendiary, insightful and hilarious - The Weekly Review
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Clarke has a chameleon-like ability to inhabit different characters and surroundings - Herald Sun
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Clarke lobs a Molotov under any reader expecting a literary comfort zone - Books + Publishing
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