Category Archives: Recommended Reading
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Recommended reading: Charlotte Wood’s touchstone books
I always baulk when asked about my favourite book – even my favourite books – of all time. How can I possibly have favourites? The books I seek out change all the time, according to the weather, my mood, what I’m writing and what I’ve just read. … Read more
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Recommended Reading: Jo Case
For our special Issue Six ‘Recommended Reading’ series, we’ve asked members of the Stella Prize (now live!) steering committee to recommend their favourite texts by women. Kill Your Darlings Associate editor Jo Case offers her selection of female writers, from Melbourne historians to New York publicists and … Read more
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Recommended Reading: Louise Swinn
For this Recommended Reading column, we asked Louise Swinn, editorial director at Sleepers Publishing and member of the Stella Prize steering committee, for some of her favourite books penned by women. Among her selections are an Age Book of the Year winner, a literary superstar, an American … Read more
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Recommended Reading: Sonja Dechian
Sonja Dechian’s ‘The Architect’ appeared in Kill Your Darlings Issue 5. Sonja’s fiction has been published in New Australian Stories 2, The Best Australian Stories 2006, The Sleepers Almanac, Wet Ink and many others. Killings asked her to share her recommended reading. Recommended reading lists are always … Read more
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Recommended Reading: Lisa Dempster, director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival
The Emerging Writers’ Festival kicks off today (see Kill Your Darlings appearances here). We asked EWF director Lisa Dempster to give us her recommended reading list. The role of a literary festival director is ironic in many ways: the closer the festival gets, the more time one … Read more
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‘We read to know we are not alone’: Annie Condon
Annie Condon’s ‘Nothing Broken’ was published in Issue Three. A fiction writer and reviewer, Annie lives in Melbourne, and her stories have been published in Kill Your Darlings (Issue 3), Meanjin, Going Down Swinging and various anthologies. Killings asked her to share her recommended reading. Many years … Read more
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Kalinda Ashton’s Recommended Reading
As a child, I was entranced by the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are. I can actually remember learning to read and what a difficult and pointless process it seemed, spelling out all those bloody letters and trying to sound out words. The relief … Read more
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Recommended Reading: Joel Deane, author of The Norseman’s Song
Welcome to the first Killings Recommended Reading post. Recommended Reading is literary voyeurism at its most gratuitous, a reader’s stickybeak. We investigate into the reading habits of writers we admire. Our first subject, Joel Deane, is a poet and journalist. His first novel, The Norseman’s Song, is … Read more
