Tag Archives: Text Publishing
Podcast
‘Uncomfortable places’: Michelle Aung Thin’s The Monsoon Bride
It’s 1930. Winsome McLintock is a convent girl about to marry a man she barely knows, and she will follow him to Rangoon, the then capital of Burma. Rangoon is a rich and exciting city, but it’s also full of tension – the wealthy British residents live … Read more
Interviews
Excerpt: Kill Your Darlings in conversation with Ron Rash
For Issue Six, Kill Your Darlings was delighted to speak with North American writer Ron Rash. A poet, novelist and short story writer, Ron Rash has won many awards for his work, including the 2010 Frank O’Connor prize for his short story collection, Burning Bright. We spoke with Ron … Read more
Books
Summer Reading: The Donald Friend Diaries – Chronicles and Confessions of an Australian Artist (ed. Ian Britain)
For a man who is known principally as a visual artist, Donald Friend’s written work has received extraordinary praise. In the foreword to Text’s 2010 edition of Friend’s diaries, Barry Humphries brands the work ‘among the most evocative and amusing writings in all of Australian literature’. … Read more
News
Readings ebookshop launched
Our friends at Readings and SPUNC have together launched an ebookshop filled with titles from independent publishing houses including Black Inc., Text Publishing, Scribe Publications, Wakefield Press and many more. The ebooks purchased from the site can be read on any device with a browser, including iPads, … Read more
Books
Wagers and half-lives: Charles D’Ambrosio’s Dead Fish Museum
In ‘Up North’, the fourth story in The Dead Fish Museum, a man whose wife is having a string of affairs says, ‘Our marriage was like a constant halving of the distance, without ever arriving at the moment in time where, utterly familiar, I’d vanish’. In the … Read more
Interviews
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
Books
In defence of the slut: Emily Maguire’s Your Skirt’s Too Short [review]
Hysteria about adolescent female sexuality is at fever pitch at the moment. You can’t open a newspaper without having some self-proclaimed figurehead like Michael Carr-Gregg shrilling about teenagers having orgies, tween stars pole dancing on MTV and the effect singing along to that Britney song about threesomes … Read more
Events
Kill Your Darlings Literary Trivia Night (Melbourne)
They came to play, and they played hard. Last week’s Kill Your Darlings literary trivia night was a great success, with twelve tables battling it out for the KYD Trivia Champion title. Props to the Text Publishing team, who aced questions about true lies, sex and death … Read more
Reviews
Possibility and powerlessness: Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter [review]
Thanks to our friends at Text Publishing, we have two copies of Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter to give away. Details will appear in our April newsletter, which you can join here. The Theory of Light and Matter Andrew Porter Text Publishing RRP: $27.95 … Read more
