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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in ThreeThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
Lia Steele, 'Eden'
Photographer Lia Steele's latest creative undertaking recalls the lavish Garden of Eden. She cherry-picked a handful of friends Australia-wide and requested they, err, disrobe behind some bushes. The models then emerged from the bushes and gazed deep into the barrel of Lia's camera. The result? A picture book of 35 glowing youths resplendent amid ferns and flowers.
Weekly zine review #7 - 'GUTTERSLUG'
Leave your own headspace for a while and read about Emily (that smelly kid)'s life on the streets of Brisbane. This zine has been around for a while now but this girl's writing about life as a displaced teen is not the kind of thing that dates. She chronicles life in an adult government shelter as a 17 year old, surviving in a world of abuse and abusers as well as fragments of her earlier life in a long term accommodation shelter for young people.
Joan Didion, 'The White Album'
I'm sitting at my desk, watching my girlfriend get dressed in the other room. Through the door, gilded by the morning sun, she zips up her skirt and then fusses over her hair. She looks fantastic, and it's one of life's cruel little ironies that she only seems this supernaturally desirable when there is absolutely no chance of congress.
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.
Five Dials
Issue 11 of Five Dials begins with a note on lists, and how useful they can be as effective slices of biography, hinting at what's going on in a person's life at the time of list writing.
If I showed you my current list you might dislocate your jaw from yawning so hard ("Remove apostrophe from 'you're'", "Change photo background to white") so I thought instead I'd write a list of the things that went through my head while reading Five Dials:
1) Heh.
Weekly zine review #6 - 'Adventure Time'
The same-old same-old not doing it for you anymore? Find yourself wanting MORE? Bored with yourself, even? Maybe it's time to read about Maddy, the Zinester Girl Who Could. Dissatisfied with everyday, predictable life she starts up an 'Adventure Time! Fun Club' with other uni nerds and they go visiting the observatory (they really do).
Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths
I used to despise Morrissey. I don't know what it was but he really got under my skin. Perhaps it was chin, I don't know, but I couldn't stand the sight of him. Of course, the more I ignored him the closer he got; I was wasting my time. Now I'm one of his biggest gayest fans. I even know people who've touched him.
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