Monthly Archives: July 2010
Issue Two
Monica Dux on ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch‘: now in audio and video
Monica Dux appeared on Radio National’s Life Matters to discuss her article in Kill Your Darlings Issue Two, ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer Forty Years On’. In her article, Monica examines the critics and critiques of feminist Germaine Greer. Listen to the show here. On … Read more
Books
Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language / Robert McCrum [review]
ISBN: 9780670918874 RRP: $32.95 Publisher: Penguin If you were to read the title, jacket blurb or publicity material for Robert McCrum’s new book you could be excused for assuming that it dealt largely with a modern phenomenon. ‘Globish’ or Global English is, after all, a relatively modish … Read more
Issue One
Paul Mitchell, Rebecca Starford on ABC radio
In Kill Your Darlings Issue One, Paul Mitchell told how his campaign to inure his daughter to the evils of consumerism took an unlikely turn. Issue One is now sold out, but Paul appeared on Radio National’s First Person on Tuesday, with ‘Shopping for Values: A Journey … Read more
News
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Sleaze-hounds and Artists on Oath: The State of Australian Biography’
By popular demand, Gideon Haigh’s ‘Sleaze-hounds and Artists on Oath: The State of Australian Biography’ is now available in full on our website. Gideon recently appeared on The Book Show with biographer Professor Jil Roe to discuss Australian biography, and will be speaking at the National Library … Read more
Books
War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman [review]
War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times Linda Polman ISBN: 9780670918966 RRP: $32.95 First, a little story. In 1854 Florence Nightingale responded to a request from the British War office for volunteers to help care for sick and wounded soldiers from the Crimean … Read more
Events
The Female Eunuch: 40 Years On (Melbourne)
Kill Your Darlings presents Monica Dux, Leslie Cannold and Karen Pickering in conversation about the impact of Germaine Greer’s classic feminist text, The Female Eunuch, at the time of publication and now, 40 years on. (And yes, we’ll also talk about that Nowra article.) This promises to … Read more
Podcast
The diplomat, the midwife and the handmaiden: Emma Schwarcz on the Residential Editorial Program
Emma Schwarcz set on the path to becoming an editor ten years ago, when a friend of her mother asked her if she was willing to be the handmaiden to someone else’s success. Earlier this year, she attended the Residential Editorial Program at Varuna House. The program, … Read more
Books
‘Every now and then the city shook its soul out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin [review]
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (Allen and Unwin) ISBN: 978-1-4088-0118-5 RRP: $32.99 It is August 1974, and at the bottom of the World Trade Centre, birds are being scooped into zip lock bags, so ‘dazzled by the building’s lights, they crashed into the glass’. It has just been constructed; … Read more
News
Launch week: Melbourne and Adelaide
Don’t forget: it’s launch week. In Melbourne, you can join the celebration (and win prizes) at our Issue Two launch tomorrow at Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall. Adelaide, you’re up on Thursday at The Wheatsheaf Hotel. There will be glorious stacks of Issue Two, featuring Monica Dux, … Read more
Film
Review: The Hedgehog
The Hedgehog is French director Mona Achache’s first feature film and is an impressive debut. Adapted for the screen by Achache and based on the internationally acclaimed novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, it is a darkly comic and poignant tale about class, misrecognition … Read more
