Monthly Archives: April 2010
From the Editors
“Here we go again”: The fiction magazine sausage-fest
‘I’m just being a bitch again’, wrote Amy King, in response to a post by Blake Butler at the HTMLGIANT blog announcing the contributors for issue #2 of We Are Champion magazine. None of the ten writers is female. King originally posted a comment at the original … Read more
Books
An Ask In Need Of An Answer: Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask [review]
If you suspect that twenty-first century America is a nation whose crippling schizophrenia is badly hidden behind excess and superficial spectacle, then Sam Lipsyte’s your man, and The Ask is your novel. Your narrator and protagonist Milo Burke was going to be a great artist, but he … Read more
Film
‘Please don’t hurt each other, and have a fun with The Room‘
‘Please don’t hurt each other, and have a fun with The Room‘, says Tommy Wiseau, the writer, director and star of cult film The Room. If you haven’t heard of this cinema phenomenon yet, Wiseau’s film tells of a love triangle between a man, his fiancée and … Read more
On Writing
On Writing: LK Holt
In Killings’ On Writing column, we ask writers we admire to reflect on what and how they write. Our first contributor is LK Holt – poet, publisher at John Leonard Press and editor of the magazine Blast Poetry and Critical Writing. In Randall Jarrell’s poem ‘A Sick … Read more
Film
Film Review: Micmacs
Micmacs, the latest film from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a chaotic revenge caper against two evil arms dealers and the world of pain and death they represent. Imbued with the same enchanting sense of joyful whimsy that characterises Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement and the beguiling … Read more
Podcast
Interview with Karen Andrews of Miscellaneous Press
Earlier this month, Miscellaneous Voices #1: Australian Blog Writing was launched. The collection contains writing by Jessica Au, James Bradley, Maxine Clarke, Tiggy Johnson and Damon Young, as well as the work of many other writers. Geordie Williamson wrote in the Australian that its arrival indicated that … Read more
Press
Kill Your Darlings reviewed at the Overland blog
‘I must confess that I was initially skeptical about whether KYD could live up to its own hype. Well, dear Reader, I was wrong to have doubted’: Irma Gold’s review of Kill Your Darlings Issue One is up at the Overland blog.
Events
Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night (Melbourne)
We suspect that you will be very, very excited about this news: the Kill Your Darlings Trivia Night is on again. Let’s face it. In the real world, knowing who won last year’s Miles Franklin or why Bob Ellis was sued by Tony Abbott won’t win you … Read more
Art
How do you document a scene? Melbourne / Brisbane: punk, art and after
Image: Performance by The Boys Next Door with Jenny Watson’s “An original oil painting (black & white) (For Nick Cave)” at the Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne’, 1979, photograph courtesy John Nixon In Martine Syms’ Bad at Sports review of North Drive Press #5 – an annual art publication … Read more
Reviews
Musings on a Coloured (Not Classic) France: The Alliance Française French Film Festival
Still from Philippe Lioret’s Welcome Whether on a shopfront mannequin, the fashion pages of a women’s glossy, or a promising travel brochure, it seems French chic is everywhere in the Australian metropolis. Not that the European nation’s much-celebrated sophisticated, effortless, classic style ever moved from the top … Read more
