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Kill Your Darlings
20 days ago
āThis is Adelaideās generous accomplishment. When Iām Sixty-Four is likely to send you straight to the library of Gabrielle Careyās books.ā
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Dear Gabrielle
Frankness comes before fiction in When Iām Sixty-Four.
https://bit.ly/41T5Ad1
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This was not an easy piece to write for
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but a pleasure nonetheless - Debra Adelaide's novel on Gabrielle Carey is a little marvel and deserving of attention. Thank you to Suzy Garcia and Rebecca Starford for their careful edits.
www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/dear...
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Dear Gabrielle
Frankness comes before fiction in When Iām Sixty-Four.
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/dear-gabrielle/
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22 days ago
Frankness comes before fiction in Debra Adelaideās homage to her late friend in When Iām Sixty-Four, writes
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Dear Gabrielle
Frankness comes before fiction in When Iām Sixty-Four.
https://bit.ly/4ugT0QZ
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Nick Feik
about 1 month ago
This is at least the 12th Al-Jazeera journalist assassinated by Israel
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Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza
Israeli drone strike kills Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, west of Gaza City.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/4/8/israeli-attack-kills-al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-wishah-in-gaza
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about 2 months ago
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on AI in fiction and Steve Toltz's latest novel, A Rising of Lights. Read more:
bit.ly/4dESAyz
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about 2 months ago
Techās big threat to the modern man offers few laughs in Steve Toltzās fourth novel,Ā A Rising of Lights. Read the first review by KYD Critic
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in 2026:
bit.ly/41t3YpU
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Guardian Australia
about 2 months ago
Rhoda Roberts, Indigenous broadcaster and cultural powerhouse ā obituary
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Rhoda Roberts, Indigenous broadcaster and cultural powerhouse ā obituary
Roberts, who introduced the term āwelcome to countryā, held multiple positions across decades in which she promoted Indigenous culture * Rhoda Roberts, Indigenous cultural leader who introduced the term āWelcome to Countryā, dies aged 66 Spurned by a careers counsellor who advised her that finishing high school would be a waste of time, the Aboriginal storyteller, festival director, curator, actor and writer Rhoda Roberts went on to become one of Australiaās greatest cultural ambassadors. Roberts, a Bundjalung Widjabul Wiyebal elder who has died aged 66, dedicated her life to sharing the stories of her people, preserving and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through language, dance and ceremony, and securing pathways for First Nations talent to flourish. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/21/rhoda-roberts-indigenous-broadcaster-and-cultural-powerhouse-obituary?CMP=aus_bsky
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I went long on the late, great David Stratton for Sydney Review of Books. Spent the end of last year reading all of his books and thinking about what sort of writer he was and what kind of library he leaves behind.
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āOh, David!ā | Sydney Review of Books
When David Stratton died in 2025, Australian film lost not only a stalwart, but also, as Sam Twyford-Moore writes, one of its most devoted chroniclers. What does Strattonās vision of the past fifty ye...
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/oh-david
2 months ago
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Happy Mardi Gras
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Jacob Elordi is James Bond!
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Can someone explain why Malcolm Turnbull has been using this rotoscope filter lately?
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Kill Your Darlings
3 months ago
ICMYI: Laura Elizabeth Woollett explores the highly anticipated debut novel by Jennette McCurdy and the evolution of the teacherāstudent trope in her first review as KYD Critic. Read more:
bit.ly/4kjdyo8
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Adam Keiper
3 months ago
The Post's books section was very strong. And for it to be killed off by the founder of Amazon, the company that drove so many book stores to die off, is a level of irony that, if it were in a novel, would come across as contrived.
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www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
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Woollett and Twyford-Moore announced as KYD critics | Books+Publishing
Purchase a subscription to view job ads and other premium content on Books+Publishing.
https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/02/05/323342/woollett-and-twyford-moore-announced-as-kyd-critics/
3 months ago
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Kill Your Darlings
4 months ago
We are delighted to announce Laura Elizabeth Woollett and
@samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social
as two regular critics for Kill Your Darlings magazine. Laura and Sam will each publish long-form criticism on new release fiction and non-fiction throughout 2026. Find out more:
bit.ly/4tbyYHS
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Walter Marsh
4 months ago
Some reflections on Adelaide Writers' Week from this Adelaide writer. Deep disappointment all round, and some big questions:
www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...
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'If it was the boardās decision, why did half its members resign?': Boycotting author reflects on Writers' Week wake - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Author and InReview editor Walter Marsh tells how Writers' Week furore leaves "our small literary pond feeling just as toxic" as algal bloom.
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion/2026/01/13/if-it-was-the-boards-decision-why-did-half-its-members-resign-boycotting-author-reflects-on-writers-week-wake
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Greg Jericho
4 months ago
Statement from
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on Adelaide Festival.
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Overland Journal
6 months ago
āThat old one ā the working class as one dumb mass ā is nothing but another bourgeois clichĆ©. We are not simpletons, weāre just exploited.ā From a polemic by Sergio ChesĆ”n on literature and class, translated for us by Roy Duffield.
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Literature, no place for the poor - Overland literary journal
That old one ā the working class as one dumb mass ā is nothing but another bourgeois clichĆ©. We are not simpletons, weāre just exploited.
https://overland.org.au/2025/11/literature-no-place-for-the-poor/
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Kill Your Darlings
7 months ago
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on Sumner Locke Elliot's late-life coming-out novel, Fairyland. Listen to the podcast:
apple.co/4nVRuAW
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Loved being a part of this podcast and writing about SLE!
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7 months ago
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Australian real estate culture is rotten. A take on everything.
7 months ago
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Tom Studans
8 months ago
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šØ Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. š° AFR āļø
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Kill Your Darlings
8 months ago
What can we glean from the last bastion of regular television book coverage?
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finds out.
killyourdarlings.com.au/article/brin...
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Bringing Back 'The Book Club'
Rewatching ABCās book show highlights a negligent lack of televised arts criticism.
http://killyourdarlings.com.au/article/bringing-back-the-book-club/
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Finally a hot bisexual man. The representation we needed.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Ex-West Coast defender Brown becomes AFL's first openly bisexual player
Former AFL player Mitch Brown creates history by becoming the first person in the league's 129-year history to reveal he is bisexual.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-27/afl-mitch-brown-first-openly-bisexual-man-in-league-history/105702662
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Andrew
9 months ago
i feel like there's probably a better way to dunk on ai tools than using them extensively so you can post all the poor results that in turn encourages even more people to use them to post their "funny" mistakes. true believers don't care, you're just amplifying its use and feeding it more user data.
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I would like to read my very interesting book on the bus but instead I have to listen to your very boring conversation.
9 months ago
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gina rushton
10 months ago
āTech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.ā
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Australiaās potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companiesā brazen arguments ā and caught the Australian government off-guard
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/australia-productivity-commission-tdm-copyright-exception-proposal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Guardian Australia
10 months ago
Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ārampant theftā of Australian content to train AI
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Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ārampant theftā of Australian content to train AI
Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for ātext and data miningā and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushback * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Arts, creative and media groups have demanded the government rule out allowing big tech companies to take Australian content to train their artificial intelligence models, with concerns such a shift would āsell outā Australian workers and lead to ārampant theftā of intellectual property. The Albanese government has said it has no plans to change copyright law, but any changes must consider effects on artists and news media. The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has demanded that copyrighted material must not be used without compensation. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/06/arts-and-media-groups-demand-labor-take-a-stand-against-rampant-theft-of-australian-content-to-train-ai?CMP=aus_bsky
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I challenge Australians to have normal conversations on public transport, or, better yet, none at all.
10 months ago
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10 months ago
My NYT op-ed this morning Iām a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | Iām a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Again, someone hoping to provide report cards on universities advocates for this role in a report that would likely fail as an undergraduate paper for lack of citations and evidence of its many claims.
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10 months ago
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Jon Piccini
10 months ago
In a week that the Yoorook Commission found a genocide had taken place in Victoria, and the NT coroner found the territory was rife with (potentially fatal) racism, Albanese ignored both. He owns the furore that followed, and the mess it has become.
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Envoys in glass houses
Jillian Segalās position as antisemitism spokesperson is untenable
https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/envoys-in-glass-houses
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Glad to announce my next book The Mush Room: Australian Publishing's Rushed Erin Patterson Books will be out in a few weeks. Start writing it tomorrow!
10 months ago
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Greg Jericho
10 months ago
The
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has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoyās antisemitism plan
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Marcus š³ļøāšš§š§
10 months ago
āIsrael is massacring Palestinians at aid sites every dayā is the headline you scumbags
www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by āmass casualty incidentsā at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/gaza-aid-workers-overwhelmed-by-mass-casualty-incidents-at-food-distribution-sites?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Adam Bienkov
10 months ago
The word is "massacres"
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The New Republic
11 months ago
Not ābest.ā Not āfavorite.ā Not āmost likable.ā Most significant. Some of these films are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin on our list of significant political films. Published June 22, 2023:
https://trib.al/4OEgh53
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The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
Not ābest.ā Not āfavorite.ā Not āmost likable.ā Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.
https://trib.al/4OEgh53
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Stephen Morgan
11 months ago
Keep forgetting to post about it (everything's frantic, prepping for this + working to get the
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festival line-up sorted), but I'm doing my first keynote tomorrow, as part of the PICNIC @ 50 symposium at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, organised by Jonathan Rayner and SCRIF.
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Respect the game
about 1 year ago
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Matthew Donlan
about 1 year ago
Shout out to
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for writing this incredible book on film in Australia. Witty, fascinating and at times (for a film student wanting to make Australian works) disheartening
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Really proud of this piece in the new Griffith Review.
about 1 year ago
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Martyn
about 1 year ago
āIf I die, I want a loud death. I donāt want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.ā
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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āIf I die, I want a loud deathā: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna
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Just two perfect heroes hanging out
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Nick Feik
about 1 year ago
Is this relevant?
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about 1 year ago
Fixed it
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