{"id":46886,"date":"2018-06-26T02:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/26\/tim-winton-being-called-a-misogynist-stings-a-bit\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T02:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:13:51","slug":"tim-winton-being-called-a-misogynist-stings-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=46886","title":{"rendered":"Tim Winton: &#039;Being called a misogynist stings a bit&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The novelist, who has faced criticism for his male focus, is braving the #MeToo moment with a new book and by speaking out about toxic masculinitySupport our independent journalism with a one-off or monthly contributionIt\u2019s the end of the road for Tim Winton. This is his last interview, after two months in Australia promoting his 29th book, The Shepherd\u2019s Hut, and flying around the country for a sold-out speaking tour about toxic masculinity. The night before our meeting in Melbourne, he was in Sydney for the premiere of Breath, a movie version of his coming-of-age surfing novel directed by the actor Simon Baker. Tomorrow he\u2019s going home at last, to a tiny town he prefers not to name in interviews, two hours north of Perth.Winton is gracious with his time, given his exhaustion and that he really doesn\u2019t like the publicity circuit. He is protective of his life away from being Tim Winton, four-time winner of Australia\u2019s most prominent literary award, the Miles Franklin. By literary standards, he is astonishingly popular, a writer of dark fiction who gets asked for autographs on the street. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jun\/26\/tim-winton-most-of-the-men-in-my-books-are-doing-badly\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Winton: &#039;Being called a misogynist stings a bit&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novelist, who has faced criticism for his male focus, is braving the #MeToo moment with a new book and by speaking out about toxic masculinitySupport our independent journalism with a one-off or monthly contributionIt\u2019s the end of the road for Tim Winton. This is his last interview, after two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}