Ben’s Reviews > Seize the Fire: Three Speeches > Status Update

The second speech in this volume is ostensibly about Tassie lit. I will not steal from the interested reader the joy of reading such a wonderful essay, but I will say that the true purpose of the essay reveals itself about halfway through in a blaze of righteous anger. The man is a firebrand. Anyone who knows his bugbears can guess at the source of his loathing. Flanagan's is Oz's smart, wrathful social conscience.