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Issue Four

Extract – Caroline Hamilton, ‘Jonathan’s Correction: “#Franzenfreude” and the Great American Novelist’

by Caroline Hamilton , January 11, 2011 • 1 Comment

In Issue Four of Kill Your Darlings (published this Friday), Caroline Hamilton writes about Jonathan Franzen’s cultural ambivalence. Read an exclusive pre-publication extract from the essay here. By the time of its arrival, the book titled Freedom was, ironically enough, weighted with baggage. Ten days before its … Read more »

Issue Four

Extract – Emily Maguire, ‘The Invisible Women: Carers in Australian Families’

by Emily Maguire , January 10, 2011 • 2 Comments

In Issue Four of Kill Your Darlings (released on January 14), Emily Maguire records three women’s experiences caring for ill and disabled family members. Read an exclusive extract from the essay here. Care, the nursing historian Marie-Françoise Collière wrote, ‘is at the very root of women’s history, … Read more »

Podcast

‘If it’s all laughs, you’re not really telling the story’: Benjamin Law

by , July 1, 2010 • Leave a comment

Podcast roadmap: A bit of time travel to Brisbane, 1989; having a family with a wrong sense of humour; five editors inside (or outside) your head; mothers being mortifying but quotable; Cantonese lessons on where to wash; ‘There’s nothing wrong with being gay – it just means … Read more »