Issue Two · July 2010

The Kill Your Darlings winter issue opens with Monica Dux’s ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch’, which is both a response to the recent additions to the ‘Parsnip School of Greer Criticism’ and a genuine reflection on the book’s impact both at the time of publication and now. Other commentary includes Benjamin Law on coming late to music, Michaela McGuire on being ‘a writer’ and Gideon Haigh on the state of Australian biography. We’ve got new fiction from Pierz Newton-John and Virginia Peters, to name just a couple, and we chat with novelist (and controversialist) Philip Pullman about his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

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Highlights from this issue

Commentary

Temple of The Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer Forty Years On

Monica Dux examines the critics and criticism of Australian feminist Germaine Greer.

Latecomers, You’re All Right: Discovering Music After Everyone Else

Benjamin Law on relinquishing his know-it-all status.

Sleaze-hounds and Artists on Oath: The State of Australian Biography

Gideon Haigh on the state of biography in Australia.

Fiction

Comfort Inn

Samuel Rutter

Shock

Pierz Newton-John

A Terror Story

Leanne Hall

Reviews

Baying for True Blood: Binge Reading in Television’s Post-Broadcast Era

Mel Campbell sinks her teeth into the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

Gnarly Family Trees: Truth, Beauty and Love My Way

Rochelle Siemienowicz looks at the much-loved Australian drama series.

Also —

Kill Your Darlings in conversation with Philip Pullman

Cartoon by Polly Dedman