John Holton

About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer/Editor
Location Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Introduction John Holton is a freelance writer, editor and publisher. His weekly column, Between Here and Home, appears every Tuesday in the Bendigo Advertiser.
Interests playing, listening, watching, reading, making, muddling, pottering, dabbling, dreaming, imagining, drifting, poeticising...
Favorite Movies Anything made by Wes Anderson, Annie Hall, A Night at the Opera, Garden State, The Spongbob Squarepants Movie, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Last Waltz, My Life as a Dog, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Down by Law, Wings of Desire, Disco Pigs, Everything Is Illuminated, Stranger Than Fiction, Midnight in Paris...
Favorite Music The National, Interpol, Beck, Cake, City and Colour, Midlake, Youth Lagoon, The Beatles, Billy Bragg, Hothouse Flowers, Shane Howard, Ben Folds, Colin Hay, The Shins, Crash Test Dummies, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Luka Bloom, Something For Kate, Rufus, The Pogues, The Smiths, Tom Waits, The Waterboys, They Might Be Giants, John Butler, The Decemberists, Regina Spektor...
Favorite Books Revenge of the Lawn & The Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan, Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto, Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami, Scumbler - William Wharton, Bloodfather - David Ireland, The Crookes of Epping - Barry Dickins, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle, Cloudstreet - Tim Winton, On Writing - Stephen King, The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder, Boy - Roald Dahl, The Boys From Ballymore - Anthony Jones, Saturday - Ian McEwan, Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger, The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God - Etgar Keret, A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver's Short Stories, Walden - Thoreau, Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Dark Roots - Cate Kennedy, Anything by Anne Tyler...

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