Barry Divola

Barry Divola is a journalist and author from Sydney. He writes regularly for Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, Who, Smith Journal and Men’s Style. He has published seven books, including Fanclub, Searching For Kingly Critter, The Secret Life Of Backpackers, M Is For Metal and his latest, Nineteen Seventysomething, a linked collection of stories that follows the same character over ten years, coming of age in the decade that style forgot. Barry has won the Banjo Paterson Short Story Award three times, plus The Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award and the Margaret River Short Story Competition.

Trip The Light Fantastic: The Family Survival Guide to Vivid

For the 11th year, Vivid will inject light, sound and ideas into Sydney in the middle of winter. And for the 11th year, parents with lingering memories of last year’s festival will wander into the city to see the incredible light installations and the illuminated sails of the Sydney Opera House, and ask themselves: “Can we do it better this time around?”

Suede’s Brett Anderson: Fatherhood As An Act of Optimism

Suede frontman Brett Anderson became a dad in his mid 40s. Instead of crushing his creativity via the dreaded ‘pram in the hallway’, fatherhood reignited it. His son, he says, “is my muse”.

Why Is The Sky Blue? And Other Questions Kids Ask

Your kids will mercilessly expose the pitiful extent of your general knowledge. Here’s your crib-sheet.

Mick Jagger and Me: The Old Dads’ Club

As the age of first-time fathers continues to rise, one writer reflects on the wisdom of having kids after 40.
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