Category Archives: Literary Links
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Proper spelling be damned! Should our txt lexicon become a language of the future? The weird and wonderful images captured by Google Street View The automaton behind Hugo Romance novel sentence … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. The art of book cover fails How to write like a funny woman (and other tips) How internet memes and hollywood remakes are alike Food blurbs! Do our viewing tastes reflect … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. How many movies are there, really? Beautiful ink portraits on vintage envelopes. Kerouac wanted Marlon Brando to bring On the Road to life. The Millions’ most anticipated books of 2012. ‘Call … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. ‘The common view is that the Scottish English adjective wee means little.’ Or is it a vehicle for conventional implicature? ‘Authors beware’: at Liticism, Bethanie Blanchard’s interview with Steve Rossiter on … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Beyond Angry Birds: seriously, what’s next? Australian translator Chris Andrews on a new César Aira translation. Why is Keira Knightley in all the film adaptations of books? Fun Middlesex book club … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Phew: rumours of Hunger Games nail polish are untrue. (Cleanse the bad feeling from your mouth with the full-length trailer of the forthcoming film.) Lewis Lapham’s revolutionary reading list. Diablo Cody … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Dog lovers: Four is a new magazine for you. Stories by Dutch writer AL Snijders, translated into English by Lydia Davis. All our friends are DJs too: Samantha … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Joan Didion’s new memoir Blue Nights will be out in November, this is a lovely essay and interview with her in New York magazine. An amusing list (not to mention … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. This is a meme we are very into. How do you make feminist theory more appealing? You put Ryan Gosling on it. (This one’s our favourite. And this … Read more
Literary Links
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us from our writing. Christos Tsiolkas’s full letter to the ABC on its axing of The Book Show. Interesting piece on how Google Translate works – and the commonality of expression no … Read more
