Monthly Archives: April 2010
Books
Edward Cullen, Stake Your Heart Out: Narrelle M. Harris’s The Opposite of Life
Melbourne dominates the pages of Narrelle M. Harris’ supernatural thriller, The Opposite of Life. It’s a force in its own right, akin to New York in Sex and the City. Harris’ geekgirl protagonist, Lissa, is forever roaming the city’s grid of streets and cobbled lanes for bars, … Read more
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading: Joel Deane, author of The Norseman’s Song
Welcome to the first Killings Recommended Reading post. Recommended Reading is literary voyeurism at its most gratuitous, a reader’s stickybeak. We investigate into the reading habits of writers we admire. Our first subject, Joel Deane, is a poet and journalist. His first novel, The Norseman’s Song, is … Read more
Podcast
Format Festival Academy of Words
Format Festival‘s Academy of Words was held on 14th March. Panels were held all day at the zine space on Peel Street, Adelaide, including Criticism and Reviewing, It’s all gone Dave Eggers: the current state of literature in Australia and The Great Zine Explosion. Clementine Ford (also … Read more
Reviews
Film Review: The Last Station
Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station depicts the final months of nineteenth-century Russian writer and pacifist Leo Tolstoy’s (Christopher Plummer) life. Adapted from Jay Parini’s biographical novel, the film begins in 1910 when young writer and dedicated Tolstoyan, Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy), is hired as Tolstoy’s personal secretary. … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
Kill Your Idols: Interview with Justin Heazlewood
In Issue One of Kill Your Darlings, Justin Heazlewood wrote: ‘If the album isn’t dead, it’s certainly lying in intensive care’. Killings spoke to him about how technology has changed the way we listen to music, which musicians can still make him sit up and listen, and … Read more
Art
Permeating boundaries: The art of Issey Miyake
Prithvi Varatharajan went to a lecture about the Issey Miyake fashion label, presented by its creative director Dai Fujiwara. The event was hosted by RMIT as part of the 2010 L’Oréal Fashion Week. The lecture covered Issey Miyake’s groundbreaking design concepts, including ‘A Piece of Cloth’. In … Read more
