JL;DR SUMMARY The Adelaide Writers Week in Australia was canceled after nearly 200 authors, including prominent figures like Zadie Smith and Jacinda Ardern, boycotted the event in protest of the disinvitation of Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.