Keyword results: Literature
Infinite Jest
Okay, this is the big one. Bret Easton Ellis calls it 'the doorstop'. When my friend Dan was reading it on the tram, he called it 'the chick magnet'. Infinite Jest is your 1079-page destiny, so get started and you'll finish it before 2009 draws to its heady conclusion.
So, what's it about? Errr. Look, I'm not going to.
Rooftop Paper - Four Stories from Rooftop Cinema 2008/09
Apart from a couple of pages dedicated to the film program and the FAQs, Rooftop Paper has no information or images relating to the films or the cinema experience. It's like they want you to spend your time reading fiction instead of buying tickets! It's like they want you to use your imagination instead of your credit card.
Ampersand Edition Zero Melbourne Launch!
What:
Ampersand Edition Zero Melbourne Launch!
Where:
Wardlow Art Residence, 4 Wood St, Fitzroy
When:
Tonight! Thurs Oct 30, 6pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
That little magazine dressed as a Penguin Classic is being catapulted into the publishing world and having a little party to wave it off. The 137-page magazine that was born out of one woman's need for new ideas has hit the shelves of good book stores around about town. But if you only ever get out of bed for parties, you can pick up a copy at the Wardlow Art Residence where there will be booze and entertainment for your convenience.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Free booze & Food
Ampersand
Editor Alice Gage once wanted to rock some serious boats. She was filled with rage at the numbness around her and thought that a cutting political publication would liven things up a little. After a good, hard think she realised the planet doesn't need more political verbiage - but it does need some interesting shit.
Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness)
First editions are like virgins in a brothel: sought after, rarely fondled and destined to live out their days in a basement somewhere. Thankfully, these beauties can still be found in second-hand bookstores, or if you're lucky enough (hint), will come to you from a dear friend...
Bonjour Tristesse takes the reader to the South of France through the scheming eyes of Cécile, a 17-year-old hedonist on vacation with her father Raymond, the sensual and fetching widower, and his conservative mistress, Elsa.
Stop. Drop. Roll. Presents: The Visible Ink Fundraiser
What:
Stop. Drop. Roll. Presents: The Visible Ink Fundraiser
Where:
The Glasshouse, 51-55 Gipps St, Collingwood (just off Wellington, in between Johnston and Victoria Sts)
When:
Thurs July 24, 8pm-1am
How much:
$5
Description:
Can anyone party like a Keith! Party can party? You can give it your best, but it ain't going to be easy. With Talkshow Boy at the helm of the beats, things are sure to get wild when this all MCing, all dancing, party juggernaut of colourful misfits visits Collingwood. With an ever increasing number of members it can be hard to see where they begin and the crowd ends, but this is exactly why they are so much fun; they can make anyone's white cracker ass shake.
Event: Party
Stimulus: E
Torpedo Volume 2
Some people hope short fiction will save the world. Or, at least, they hope that within the carefully designed pages of the latest anthology or journal, a bastion of TRUTH will call out to them. Fiction writers are expected to trigger epiphanies; to elicit congruence from our jumbled up thoughts and emotions; to ask some questions and answer others.
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