Monthly Archives: August 2010
Issue Two
Is emotional hunger the driver behind exploitation? Pierz Newton-John on writing ‘Shock’
When I wrote the story ‘Shock’, what was foremost in my mind was the idea of vulnerability and exploitation. It’s a story about age exploiting youth, white exploiting black, male exploiting female. It’s a theme that’s been on my mind again recently because of two non-fiction books … Read more
From the Editors
Parties, interviews and the gift of the surprising conversation
The Melbourne Writers Festival kicks off today. And if you see an author or publisher looking grey this morning, it’s likely because they stayed too late, drank too much or both at last night’s Text Publishing party, an annual pre-MWF tradition. KYD editor Rebecca Starford left early … Read more
Interviews
On Writing: Michaela McGuire
When did you start writing? Why? I was given a beautiful burgundy journal when I was in Year Four and for whatever reason, I thought it’d be a good idea to walk around for weeks writing down everything my family members did. I remember watching TV with … Read more
Books
Wagers and half-lives: Charles D’Ambrosio’s Dead Fish Museum
In ‘Up North’, the fourth story in The Dead Fish Museum, a man whose wife is having a string of affairs says, ‘Our marriage was like a constant halving of the distance, without ever arriving at the moment in time where, utterly familiar, I’d vanish’. In the … Read more
Events
Magazine at Melbourne Writers Festival
Kill Your Darlings is delighted to be part of Magazine at the Melbourne Writers Festival. This new, free event will see Australian literary journals and magazines, including Meanjin, Overland, The Big Issue and Ampersand, taking residence in the Magazine shipping container on the banks of the Yarra … Read more
Podcast
Kabita Dhara of Brass Monkey Books: “They’re outsiders in the place they grew up in”
Kabita Dhara is the publisher at Brass Monkey Books, an imprint of Hunter Publishers. On a residency last year in India, she scoured the fiction market for books to bring home to Australia, and the first catch was Anjum Hasan’s Lunatic in My Head. I spoke to … Read more
Books
“Armies of the Retarded”: Bret Easton Ellis’s Imperial Bedrooms
Picador $32.99 178pp ISBN 978-0-330-51709-6 ‘I’m freaked out by you kids,’ says Greenberg, in Noah Baumbach’s film of the same name. A paranoid forty-year-old could-have-been rockstar, Greenberg, confronted with a room full of confident Gen Y-ers concludes: ‘I hope I die before I end up meeting one … Read more
Interviews
Recommended Reading: Samuel Rutter
Samuel Rutter is a new, exciting voice in Australian fiction. His story ‘Comfort Inn‘ appears in Issue Two of Kill Your Darlings, and he was recently published in The Big Issue’s fiction issue, alongside stalwarts such as Christos Tsiolkas, Linda Jaivin and Toni Jordan. Unfortunately, we’re losing … Read more
Interviews
Leanne Hall: “You can tell a story in so many different ways”
Melbourne bookseller Leanne Hall won last year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her beguiling debut novel, This is Shyness. KYD associate editor Jo Case spoke to her on the eve of the book’s publication – about the book, the tenuous boundary between adult … Read more
Events
Kill Your Darlings at the Wheeler Centre Open Day
If you thought that Open Days were only for awkwardly introducing your parents to your Grade Four teacher or figuring out where you’d like to embark upon your university bar-hopping-slash-education, you were wrong. Melbourne’s hub of literary activity, The Wheeler Centre, is having an Open Day on … Read more
