Ep 69: Don’t Wrap it in Plastic Ivy

Crabb will consider reading a promotional book if it includes a blurb from Howard Hughes, Sales will consider reading it if it comes with a Ferrari. In this episode we learn about Barbara Steisand’s sister, get some tips on how to deal with the “international marzipan scandal” and find out that Sales thinks Crabb has the sense of humour of a 14 year old boy.

• Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders

• Hoax - by Clifford Irving

• Conversations with Richard Fidler: George Saunders (ABC; 2017 Oct 19; originally broadcast May 2017)

• Stories: The Collected Short Fiction - by Helen Garner (The Red Cover)

• True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction - Helen Garner (The Blue Cover)

• Popular pair to share their stories on stage - Matt Gilbertson (The Sunday Mail; 8 October 2017; p16)

• Our Souls at Night (Film) - starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

• Our Souls! Jane Fonda and Robert Redford film title prompts unintended guffaws – (The Telegraph (UK); 2017 28 September)

• Annabel Crabb’s “smug bundt” - Apricot Pistachio Rosewater Couronne

• The Wharf Revue 2017 - Sydney Theatre Company

• Trevor Ashley - Website

• Trevor Ashley in Barbara and Me - Ensemble Theatre

• Roslyn Kind & Barbara Steisand - YouTube

• Billions - TV series staring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis,

• The Choke - by Sofie Laguna

• Atonement - byIan McEwan

• The Strays - by Emily Bitto

• Demi-Gods - by Eliza Robertson

• When I Get A Minute: Ep 4 - It's Always Thelma & Louise (at White Rabbit Gallery)

• White Rabbit Gallery - Chippendale

• The Mechanics of History - by Yoann Bourgeois (Video of a performance using a rotating spiral staircase and a trampoline)