Monthly Archives: June 2010
Issue Two
What’s in Issue Two?
As you know, Issue Two is released tomorrow. The Kill Your Darlings winter issue opens with Monica Dux’s ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch’, which is both a response to the recent additions to the ‘Parsnip School of Greer Criticism’ and a genuine reflection on the book’s impact … Read more
Events
Roll up, roll up! Issue Two launches announced
Please join Kill Your Darlings in celebrating the launch of Issue Two! We’ll be having a short launch, followed by an evening of bingo. (Yes, that’s right. BINGO.) It’ll be a night of all sorts of fun, plus we’ll be giving away loads of prizes, including books, … Read more
Books
Review: AC Grayling’s Thinking of Answers
A C Grayling Thinking of Answers Bloomsbury Publishing (Allen and Unwin) $35 (hardback) 978 1 4088 0598 5 Despite its unimaginative title, A C Grayling’s collection of philosophical essays, Thinking of Answers, is a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book. Grayling – a professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck … Read more
Books
‘The fights most worth having are the ones you won’t win’: The continuing debate on Australian literary reviewing
The pleasure of, and also the trouble with, writing something about book reviewing like ‘Feeding The Hand That Bites’ is that you become a perceived sympathetic ear to everyone’s literary horror story. Since my article appeared in the first edition of Kill Your Darlings, I have been … Read more
Issue Two
Issue Two teaser: Samuel Rutter’s ‘Comfort Inn’
So, the final teaser for Issue Two before its release on July 1. Newcomer Samuel Rutter’s story, ‘Comfort Inn’, is a laconic account of glancing connections set in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s cold. He’s wearing a jacket – because you never put your jacket in your checked luggage … Read more
Podcast
“America is obsessed with its own failure”: Emmett Stinson
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Podcast roadmap: Washington DC; corpses; Capgras syndrome; the best place to buy drugs in America; The Education … Read more
Books
Review: Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This Robin Black Publisher: Scribe Publications (Australia and New Zealand) ISBN: 9781921640421 RRP: $32.95 The title of Robin Black’s debut short story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, is an intriguing premise. What would she … Read more
Issue Two
Baying for True Blood: Binge Reading in Television’s Post-Broadcast Era
Behold teaser number two from Kill Your Darlings Issue Two. The following excerpt is from Mel Campbell’s article about the cult vampire television phenomenon, True Blood. Mel Campbell is a cultural critic and journalist who specialises in fashion, popular music, branding and celebrity. She’s also one of … Read more
Books
The Religious Impulse: An Argument for the Novel of Ideas [review]
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, Rebecca Goldstein Publisher: Atlantic Books (Allen & Unwin) ISBN: 9781848871540 RRP: $29.99 In Jeff Sparrow’s recent essay for the March edition of Meanjin, the current crop of militant atheists (Dawkins, Hitchens and the perhaps lesser known … Read more
Issue Two
Latecomers, You’re All Right: Discovering Music after Everyone Else
We are super pleased to be able to sneak you a peek at the contents of Kill Your Darlings Issue Two, beginning with Benjamin Law’s ‘Latecomers, You’re All Right: Discovering music after everyone else’. We’ll be releasing teasers until the July 1 release of Issue Two, so … Read more
