Project - Read
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.
The Lifted Brow issue #6, ATLAS
Ronnie Scott has been manning the guns at bi-annual attack journal The Lifted Brow for a few years now and he's launching issue #6 this Friday. We asked him what it took to make one of the best editions of a literary journal we ever set our cloudy retinas upon.
Penny Modra: Let's cut to the chase, Ronnie.
Cookbook
A million miles away from the overdone gloss of Jamie, Nigella and co., Cookbook is that rare breed: the kind of recipe book you won't feel compelled to hide behind the rice cooker when guests come over.
Divided into three courses with accompanying colour code, typeface and linocut artwork by Ned Culic, Jon Campbell and Tin & Ed, Cookbook showcases twenty-four favourite home-style recipes from local food luminaries such as Anthony Lui of Flower Drum, Neil Perry of Rockpool and Andrew McConnell of Cumulus Inc.
The Small Chair (The McSweeney's iPhone App)
McSweeney's, those bleeding heart suppliers of hope to disenfranchised hardcover-speciality-dust-jacket-book-lovers of the world, have come up with an iPhone app. It's called 'The Small Chair' and it costs $6.80 from iTunes. What the hell is going on? Jeremy spoke with Eli Horowitz, publisher and captain of the good pirate ship Valencia, to find out.
The Design Reporter
While design is supposed to cure the world of its ugliness, design writing is probably the world's leading cause of boredom. In fact, I'm yawning as I write this and yawns are contagious so, if we're not careful, we could actually have some kind of academic epidemic on our hands.
Fortunately, The Design Reporter, published as an independent project within the State of Design Festival, shows no symptoms.
MIFF - Literary adaptations
There's a bit in The Notebook where Ryan Gosling tells Rachel McAdams that he wrote to her every day and then when he goes to kiss her he opens his mouth so wide it looks like he's going to eat her face off. I know this because it was in the trailer. I haven't actually seen the movie. Honest. It looks brilliant though.
A Picture's Worth
Paul Meates, local artist and purveyor of fine book-wares, has put together a collection of very short stories. Fostering a culture of interdisciplinary harmony, Meates invited writers respond to pictures in pieces of 1000 words.
‘Wait, wait, wait - whaddaya mean "very short"?' ‘All the stories in A Picture's Worth are 1000 words in length.
Peter Arkle News, Number 56
As we know, but are embarrassed to admit, technology has not improved things: digital photos are never printed, our DVD discs freeze, internet phone is like an echo chamber, and text on screen fries our eyes. That is why Peter Arkle News is a rare, anachronistic gem. Concerning itself only with the minutiae and mind of New Yorker Peter Arkle, P.
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