David Malouf 
Being There 
an Australian literary anthology

After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There.With pieces on the Sydney Opera House – then and now – responses to art, artists and architects, and including Malouf’s not previously published libretti for Voss and a translation of Hippolytus, this is an unmissable and stimulating collection of one man’s connection to the world of art, ideas and culture.__________’Malouf is the most serious writer at work in this country.‘ DAVID MARR, THE MONTHLY’Malouf’s principle, to crudely reduce the rich broth of his thought to a single flavour, is that of delight.‘ GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, THE AUSTRALIAN’Malouf’s manner is measured and measuring, quietly or insistently engaging.‘ MICHAEL MORLEY, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD