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Richard Cooke

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Born

in Sydney, Australia

Website

https://richardcooke.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Contemporary, Travel

Member Since

August 2020

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Richard Cooke is an internationally-based writer, screenwriter and author.

He has contributed to the The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, The New Republic, The Guardian, and Longreads, among others.

His work has been selected for the Best of Longform and Best Australian Essays multiple times. He is the Monthly magazine’s Contributing Editor and former US Correspondent.

He is a two-time Walkley Award winner, a former finalist in the Walkley-Pascall arts critic’s award, and was the 2018 Mumbrella Publish Awards Columnist of the Year.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 176 ratings · 29 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline 3.81 avg rating — 79 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Australian Essays 2017 by Anna Goldsworthy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shannon Burns (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Barry Humphries (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Unstable Neighbourhood: The Contest for South-East Asia by Jonathan Pearlman (Editor), Allan Gyngell (Contributor), Nicole Curato (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Robyn Davidson 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Star: Elon Musk's Dangerous Turn (The Jewish Quarterly, #255) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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