AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in addition to many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year-long global journey with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries most Americans never see as well as issues of world citizenship in the 21st century. Written in the tradition of literary journalism, Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places, across the world ... and inside yourself.…mehr
AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in addition to many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year-long global journey with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries most Americans never see as well as issues of world citizenship in the 21st century. Written in the tradition of literary journalism, Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places, across the world ... and inside yourself.
MARK MORDUE is a writer, journalist, and editor. His work has been published in Interview, Madison, Speak, The Nation, and Salon in the U.S., as well as Rolling Stone, Vogue, GQ, The Australian, and Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. Mordue is the winner of a 1992 Human Rights Media Award, and from 1992 to 1997 he was the founding editor of Australia's leading pop culture magazine, Australian Style.
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Contents Preface xi india: Death or Life 19 Lightning Storm Over Calcutta 3 After the Rain 7 First Ride/Blue Wallet/Day of the Dickhead 14 The Big Match 22 nepa l: Can't Face It 41 Superstition Kills Woman 29 Roadkill 30 Fireman 44 / The Angry Hand 49 The Pole 51 A Matter of Interpretation 67 indi a: Take Me With You 73 Not Far From... 63 Varanasi Morning 65 Notes on a Train from Varanasi to Delhi 68 The Searchers 71 On Temple Road: the Way, the Truth, the Light 74 United k ingdom: No One is Useless 89 Electric Avenue, Brixton 83 Himbasha 85 No Stars in the Sky 89 Never Enough 98 Paris: Divine Spirit 105 The Dead 101 Green Light 112 Turk e y: Old Clothes 119 Whom Do I Meet? 117 Istanbul, City of Cats 119 Revenge on François 120 Olympus Presleyiad 126 Town Hall One 127 Kayseri, 20 October 1998 130 Double cross 131 ir a n: Over All Vision 151 Dream 155 Waiting for a chance 157 The Car that Killed Elvis 165 Opium Poem 183 Is Terry Venables Evil? 185 Taksi God 195 Dead Flowers 197 Moses Baba and His Brother 208 Songbird (Flower of the Night) 213 Dastgah 215 Close to us 223 Coffee in Tehran 227 Motherless Child 229 The Call 232 The Azerbaijanis 233 The Gifts 237 Paris: Help! 225 Paris is a Mist of Zeroes 243 Robbed and Crying: a Poor Man's Ballet 244 New York: Ash Sleep 235 I Get Lucky 255 Land of the Giants 257 Pissing in the Wind 265 New York Conversation 273 S&M: An American Express Story 279 Gay Talese is Hungry 282 The Chelsea Dilemma 285 Wild Girl in New York City 309 I Sat Down by Columbus and Wrote 311 On Hudson Street 315 Australia: Prayer of Touching 293 When I Wake Up 321 Acknowledgements and Credits 299 Notes to the American Edition 308
Contents Preface xi india: Death or Life 19 Lightning Storm Over Calcutta 3 After the Rain 7 First Ride/Blue Wallet/Day of the Dickhead 14 The Big Match 22 nepa l: Can't Face It 41 Superstition Kills Woman 29 Roadkill 30 Fireman 44 / The Angry Hand 49 The Pole 51 A Matter of Interpretation 67 indi a: Take Me With You 73 Not Far From... 63 Varanasi Morning 65 Notes on a Train from Varanasi to Delhi 68 The Searchers 71 On Temple Road: the Way, the Truth, the Light 74 United k ingdom: No One is Useless 89 Electric Avenue, Brixton 83 Himbasha 85 No Stars in the Sky 89 Never Enough 98 Paris: Divine Spirit 105 The Dead 101 Green Light 112 Turk e y: Old Clothes 119 Whom Do I Meet? 117 Istanbul, City of Cats 119 Revenge on François 120 Olympus Presleyiad 126 Town Hall One 127 Kayseri, 20 October 1998 130 Double cross 131 ir a n: Over All Vision 151 Dream 155 Waiting for a chance 157 The Car that Killed Elvis 165 Opium Poem 183 Is Terry Venables Evil? 185 Taksi God 195 Dead Flowers 197 Moses Baba and His Brother 208 Songbird (Flower of the Night) 213 Dastgah 215 Close to us 223 Coffee in Tehran 227 Motherless Child 229 The Call 232 The Azerbaijanis 233 The Gifts 237 Paris: Help! 225 Paris is a Mist of Zeroes 243 Robbed and Crying: a Poor Man's Ballet 244 New York: Ash Sleep 235 I Get Lucky 255 Land of the Giants 257 Pissing in the Wind 265 New York Conversation 273 S&M: An American Express Story 279 Gay Talese is Hungry 282 The Chelsea Dilemma 285 Wild Girl in New York City 309 I Sat Down by Columbus and Wrote 311 On Hudson Street 315 Australia: Prayer of Touching 293 When I Wake Up 321 Acknowledgements and Credits 299 Notes to the American Edition 308
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