Monthly Archives: September 2009
Books
The Ghosts of Readers Past
I’m terribly fond of second-hand books. Not only are they cheap and smell wonderfully dusty, but I don’t feel guilty if I inadvertently spill spaghetti sauce, beer, or shampoo (don’t ask) onto their pages. If I buy a crisp new novel, then accidentally splatter ink onto its … Read more
Film
The Fetishisation of God-Awfulness?: Ana Kokkinos and Blessed
Was anyone lucky enough to see the preview screening of Ana Kokkinos’s new film, Blessed, at the Cinema Nova on Sunday? I use ‘lucky enough’ broadly – I was certainly excited to watch the new film, her follow-up to The Book of Revelation, a confronting and thoroughly … Read more
Events
Kill Your Darlings Literary Trivia Night
Do you know which South African Nobel Prize winner is now an Australian citizen? Could you pick the original title of The Great Gatsby out of a line-up? Can you name the last three Miles Franklin Award winners? Put this and other useless information to good use … Read more
News
WELCOME
Kill Your Darlings welcomes our brand new editorial advisors: Kabita Dhara, Martin Shaw and Melissa Cranenburgh. Kabita is an editor at Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), and works for Readings. She is also a reviewer, and a board member of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Martin Shaw is the … Read more
News
NEW KYD ON THE BLOCK
Great ideas sneak up on you when you least expect it. In 2008, Rebecca Starford, then deputy editor of Australian Book Review, and Hannah Kent, PhD candidate, writer and woman-about-town, decided to go to a Melbourne café after a long day at the office. It was here, … Read more
