Monthly Archives: October 2009
Events
Kill Your Darlings Radelaide Literary Trivia Night
After the success of our first public event in Melbourne in September, Kill Your Darlings decided to spread the literary love across the nation and ran another trivia night in Adelaide on Wednesday the 28th of October. Held at the delightful ‘Wheaty‘, nine tables battled it out through … Read more
News
Canine War Hero, But What About the Rest?
As a dog lover, I was moved to read about the death of Nova, an army dog who was killed in a car-crash in Afghanistan. She was a bomb detection dog who died during a training exercise. She was so special that her body is being sent … Read more
News
Adelaide Writers’ Week Line-Up
Arguably Australia’s most exciting and influential writers’ festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week is back in February 2010. With the names of the visiting authors announced yesterday, it looks like a doozy. It’s a stellar line-up. Not only will some of Australia’s finest be there – Christos Tsiolkas, Andrea … Read more
News
The Car Question
I should preface this blog entry with a disclosure: I am first and foremost a scooter rider. I adore my scooter (yes, she has a name) and whizzing around the city. There is nothing more liberating (and thankfully free of physical exertion) than zipping down the street, wind … Read more
Books
Second-hand bookshops: The top five in and around Melbourne
Being Wednesday, I’m already dreaming about the weekend. And a weekend, in my mind, isn’t a weekend until you’ve browsed at least one second-hand bookshop. Nothing beats that mustiness of old paper; the certain staleness of a shop full of books and book lovers; the slightly dishevelled … Read more
News
Money For Nothing: Flirting with Striptease
I have never been one to get my boobs out at a party. I’ve never become intimately acquainted with a bespangled g-string, and the closest I’ve come to tabletop dancing is standing on the kitchen bench to change a light bulb. Don’t get me wrong – I’m … Read more
News
Herta Müller wins 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature
Romanian Herta Müller – novelist, essayist and poet – has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Müller’s fiction is noted for its depiction of the brutal conditions of life under Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist regime (1974–1989). Müller was born in 1953. After studying literature in the early … Read more
News
Wolf Hall wins 2009 Booker
Hilary Mantel, novelist, short story writer and critic was last night named the winner of the 41st Booker Prize at a ceremony at Guildhall in London. The British author, whose celebrated novels include Beyond Black and Vacant Possession, won the coveted prize for her historical novel Wolf … Read more
Events
Kill Your Darlings Literary Trivia Night – Radelaide!
Do you know what was in The Well? Or who wrote Therese Raquin? Do you know who was sitting at Janet Frame’s table, or which English writer tried to peel off Salvador Dali’s moustache? Put this and other useless information to good use at the Kill Your … Read more
Events
Kill Your Darlings Literary Trivia Night
Last Thursday, on the 24th of September, we threw our first public event – a literary trivia night! Held at The Pumphouse Hotel in Melbourne, the night was a great success – over sixty people rocked up to put their love of literature and books to the test. … Read more
