Karl du Fresne

Showing posts with label Nigel Latta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigel Latta. Show all posts
Friday, August 29, 2014

I wrote a book about wine, so I must be a drunk; or at least a paid shill for the liquor czars

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I’ve been meaning to revisit the subject of my column in last week’s Dominion Post , which was reproduced here . It was about Nigel Latta’...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Nigel, meet Te Radar. I hope you get along.

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(First published in The Dominion Post , August 22.) Nigel Latta is one of those phenomena that happen when you’re not looking. One day...
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Karl du Fresne
I'm a third-generation New Zealander of Irish, Danish and French descent. I grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still consider it my turangawaewae, although I can walk the length of the main street these days and not recognise a single face. I've written books about press freedom ("The Right to Know", 2005), wine ("The New Zealand Wine-Lover's Companion", 2009) and music ("A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis", 2016). In a past life I edited a daily newspaper called The Dominion. I was in journalism for more than 50 years and like many journalists I know a little bit about a lot of things and probably not enough about anything. I didn't go to university and have never won any awards. I don't call New Zealanders Kiwis, I've never sat through a reality TV show, I'm not on X or Instagram, and I haven't written my own Wikipedia entry.The picture accompanying this profile was drawn by my clever grandson Gabriel.
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