Keyword results: Literature
Kill Your Darlings
Despite its title, there's very little actual or suggested violence between the covers of Kill Your Darlings. Unless you count Gideon Haigh's point-blank assassination of Australian book reviews.
Named for William Faulkner's oft-quoted advice to writers to 'ruthlessly cut out that which doesn't serve a purpose', the brand new fully independent local journal is neatly segmented into Commentary, Fiction, Interview and Review, assisting reader and writer alike.
Read You Bastards IV
What:
Read You Bastards IV
Where:
The Empress, 714 Nicholson St, Fitzroy North
When:
Wed Feb 3, 7.45-11.30pm
How much:
$5 entry
Description:
Do you know how hard it is to write something decent? Really hard! We chew our nails off every week just coming up with this twaddle. Read You Bastards is a monthly open mic get together of poetry, short fiction and non fiction writers, to share their wares and spend their miniscule earnings on sweet liquor.
Event: Performance
Stimulus: Horn Rimmed Glasses
The Lifted Brow ATLAS launch with Clue to Kalo, Guy Blackman, Rat Vs Possum, and Absolute Boys
What:
The Lifted Brow ATLAS launch with Clue to Kalo, Guy Blackman, Rat Vs Possum, and Absolute Boys
Where:
Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, 2 Lygon St, Carlton
When:
Fri Jan 22, doors 7pm
How much:
$10
Description:
The Lifted Brow bi-annual attack journal brings us their sixth edition. This one is a book and two CDs claiming to include Bodies of Water, The Cannanes, Douglas Coupland, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hannah Marcus and Rick Moody, Sage Francis, Christine Schutt, Christos Tsiolkas, and David Foster Wallace.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Cheap Beer/Drinks
Granta Issue 108: Chicago
San Francisco and New York are the touchstone cities of American literature, leaving somewhere less fashionable like Chicago out in the wind and rain, despite the fact Hemingway, Eggers and Obama all grew up there. Strangely, Chicago has found an unusual champion in UK lit journal Granta.
The Chris Ware wraparound cover promises much.
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry
Managing to find a fresh angle in the tired but ever-universal love story genre, Important Artifacts and Personal Property cleverly reduces a relationship down to the form of an auction catalogue.
It all begins with a flyer to a friend's Halloween party where New Yorkers Lenore and Harold first met, then continues through the postcards, presents and general ‘stuff' that weaves the tapestry of their years together.
In Conversation: Encounters With 39 Great Writers
The problem with the modern media age is that no matter how cool you think you are, there's always some irritating young oik biting at your heels reminding you that you're yesterday's news, that you have been usurped, replaced by the latest über-cool model. The trick is in recognising this, standing aside, buttoning up your cardigan and heading out into the freezing night, never to be seen again.
Thomas Pynchon, 'Inherent Vice'
Inherent Vice is Pynchon's return to the pysch-noir genre he laid the bones for in his classic novel, The Crying Of Lot 49. The tale is every bit as twisted, as thick with its detective trail meanderings as Lot 49, but more pulpy in its delivery as it conjures an image of a paranoid post-Manson Los Angeles.
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