Had a great time speaking with Rorotoko about my new book, The Musical Lives of Charles Manson. Thanks to Bora and team!

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I have never gotten more love on the podcast than I have for mentioning Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables. 🐰 🩸

Back cover of Musical Lives of Charles Manson, insta post from Cracked and Spineless Books in Hobart, Tasmania

Excited to start seeing my new book out in the wild! Thanks @crackednspineless.bsky.social! My students tell me this is the best bookstore in Tasmania :)

The Greek Left, Whitlam and the Dismissal: a radical legacy Whitlam meant a great deal to working-class migrant communities.

Continued musings from my ongoing work on the community origins of multiculturalism and 1975 - bittersweet, to have something published in @meanjin.bsky.social - meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...

Final page proofs submitted, now in press! Really looking forward to this being out in the world. Preorder now!

Professors: I'd like a desk and some bookcases for my books.

Universities: We'RE BUiLdINg A sPACe CeNTeR!!!

Draft of an index, beginning with the term acid and ending with Zarathustra

Indexing, indexing, indexing, from "acid" to "Zarathustra" for my new book, Musical Lives of Charles Manson out with @bloomsburymus.bsky.social in February 2026!

Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.

Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH

Bumper sticker reading If you can read this, pull over so I can tell you all about my research based art practice

Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.

Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH

Tibetan spaniel reading a book

Today's reading buddy

My new book, coming out early 2026…

“They are afraid of it, because it tells the truth,” - Charles Manson

What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?

Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH

A beautiful golden Tibetan spaniel relaxing in the sun 🌞

Mr Tibbie is ready for the weekend, TGIF!

Currently in our summer sale 🌞

A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.

Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...

We were neither of us at all clever, we were too happy.