Appearances
- Tilley's, Canberra, where DBC Pierre was presented with organic corn (in reference to his first encounter with Australian Customs, when Pierre, as a 20 year-old, returned some of his deceased father's belongings in boxes to Australia from Mexico City. One box was found to contain cobs of ornamental maize from a table decoration, and Pierre was subsequently charged and convicted in court for "willfully importing plants or parts of plants" and "signing a false customs declaration." Commenting on this first contact with his birthplace as a returning adult, Pierre later said that he spent much of his time in Australia in either court or hospital - the latter referring particularly to a near-fatal car crash which required the right side of his face to be reconstructed, leaving scars he still bears today). (Book launch, March 2006.)
- Enough Rope, interview with Andrew Denton. (Interview, May 2006.)
- "Fairwell to the wharf of innocence", an essay on the music of David McComb & The Triffids, appears in the collection 'Vagabond Holes' (Freemantle Press, 2009)
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