Barry Divola - Driving Stevie Fracasso talk and live performance.

Barry Divola’s new novel, Driving Stevie Fracasso, follows the story of two estranged brothers – a washed-up music journalist and a washed-up rock star – who find themselves in a stolen Nissan Stanza on a road trip from Austin, Texas to New York City in the days leading up to 9/11.

It’s a love letter to New York, to the open road, to family, to love and to finding everything you didn’t know you were missing. And it’s infused with music and written to a soundtrack.

Barry will be appearing at Better Read Than Dead to talk about the book and perform a short acoustic set of songs that inspired it, including The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, Wilco and The Weakerthans.

About the Author

Barry Divola is a journalist and author born and bred in Sydney, now living in Perth. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review and Qantas Magazine. He was the long-time music critic for Who, a senior writer for Rolling Stone and his work has appeared internationally in Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Monocle and other magazines. Driving Stevie Fracasso is his first novel, but his ninth book - he has published four non-fiction books, three children’s books, and a book of short fiction. He has won the Margaret River Short Story Prize, the FAW Jennifer Burbidge Award, the Cowley Literary Award and the Banjo Paterson Award For Short Fiction (three times). Although he plays in three bands in two cities, he has been informed not to give up his dayjob.