Category Archives: Interviews
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
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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
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
Interviews, Issue One
Nicola Redhouse: ‘Being a writer certainly enriches my work as an editor’
It’s often said that writing and editing are two sides of one coin, and it’s not unusual to find a person who incorporates both into a literary life. So it is with Nicola Redhouse – by day, an editor at Scribe Publications, and by night, a fiction … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
‘A form to call home’: Patrick Cullen’s short fiction
photo by Tim McLean Newcastle writer Patrick Cullen’s stories have been anthologised in those bastions of short fiction, Best Australian Stories and Sleepers Almanac, and his novel-in-stories, What Came Between, has been praised many times over. His short story about the friendship between Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and … Read more
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Women, Writing and Indian English: A Conversation with Manju Kapur
Guest blogger Sukhmani Khorana interviewed New Delhi novelist Manju Kapur for Kill Your Darlings at Adelaide Writers’ Week. When I first read Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters in 2006, I had just submitted an Honours thesis in Media and English. I realised it wasn’t very Indian of me … Read more
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Interview with Marc Trabsky, installation artist
‘Finding Space’ Exhibition – The Carlton Hotel Studios Curated by Jason Lingard Open for viewing Wednesday to Saturday, 4pm to 7pm (20 January to 6 February) Presented by the Midsumma Visual Arts Program, ‘Finding Space’ showcases fourteen artists’ work in photography, video and installation, exploring a symbiotic dialogue … Read more
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Interview with a Porn Star: Kill Your Darlings speaks with Monica Mayhem
Pornography, and the mainstreaming of porn in our society, is a divisive issue. Does porn encourage misogyny and sexual violence, or is it a necessary part of society? Can porn help save relationships, or does it encourage unrealistic expectations of sex? Does it provide a necessary outlet … Read more
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Interview with Eleanor Catton (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this excerpt from my recent chat with Eleanor Cattton (author of The Rehearsal – recently shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2009), the young New Zealand novelist talks writing routines, the value of reading your writing aloud, and the way appearance or … Read more
Interviews
Interview with Eleanor Catton (Part 1)
The Rehearsal is a finely layered novel of ideas; highly stylised in the telling, but simultaneously populated with an arresting cast of characters who are gifted with razor-sharp dialogue. (‘Sleeping with a minor isn’t exciting because you get to boss them around,’ argues one character, refuting a school counsellor. ‘It’s exciting because you’re risking so much.’) Read more
