Monthly Archives: September 2010
Books
The Five Year Plan: The 2010 MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’
Think of these words as a crystal ball. Five years from now, which American writers are most likely to have produced the masterpiece that will either launch them into the cultural stratosphere or justify their place if they’re already up there? Read on and you’ll glimpse the … Read more
Reviews
Film Review: Please Give
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener’s most recent film, opens with a panoply of breasts. They offer themselves unabashed, fragmented in montage, for scrutiny and appraisal. The array is set to The Roches’ self-deprecating tune ‘No Shoes,’ and the track’s wittily constructed catalogue of grievances (‘I had no shoes … Read more
Issue Three
Issue Three launch/trivia night
It’s on again, book nerds. Please join us for an evening where your obscure (and bleeding obvious) literary knowledge can win you not just the bemused admiration of your peers, but prizes too! Prizes include vouchers, film tickets, wine, chocolate and – of course – books. Adelaide … Read more
Issue Three
Issue Three extract: Annie Condon’s ‘Nothing Broken’
Forthcoming in Kill Your Darlings Issue Three is Annie Condon’s story ‘Nothing Broken’. I knock on the door and take a step back. Clare, the new graduate, smiles tightly at me. Her dark hair falls to her shoulders in spirals. She has large brown eyes, and she … Read more
Issue Three
Issue Three extract: Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the dole, again’
Forthcoming in Issue Three of Kill Your Darlings is Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the dole, again’. ‘Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.’ My mother was fond of this quote. She was also fond of that one about success being ninety-nine … Read more
Issue Three
Issue Three extract: ‘Moving Forward? Australia’s relationship with Israel’ by Antony Loewenstein
Forthcoming in Issue Three of Kill Your Darlings is Antony Loewenstein’s ‘Moving Forward? Australia’s relationship with Israel’. I first discovered the importance of the Israel/Palestine conflict in my early teens, in Melbourne. I remember sitting around the Sabbath table with my parents and cousins, discussing the events … Read more
Reviews
The Room of One’s Own You Don’t Want: Emma Donoghue’s Room
Emma Donoghue, Room, Picador, 9780330519014, $32.99 Only a few days after the Fritzl family had been discovered in their dungeon in Austria, the concept for Room came to Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue: mother and son held prisoner in a cork-lined, purpose-built garden shed, told from the point … Read more
Issue Two
Issue Two giveaway
Kill Your Darlings is having its first ever blog giveaway! If you haven’t won a copy from us before, to win a copy of Issue Two – which features writing from Monica Dux, Gideon Haigh, Benjamin Law, Virginia Peters and more – all you have to do … Read more
Books
Getting beyond ‘damper prose’: S.A. Jones on Australian literature
At the book launch for Red Dress Walking, my friend and fellow Marlborough Street Book Club member Simone clinked my champagne flute and slyly remarked, ‘Well Serje, now that you are an Australian author, you’ll have to stop bagging them’. I poked my tongue out at her … Read more
News
Review: Chris Morris’s Four Lions
Directed and conceived by Chris Morris, and written with Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Four Lions follows a group of British-born Muslims planning a series of suicide bombings during the London Marathon. This might not initially strike you as gold for comedy, but anyone … Read more
