| Title | : | Kill Your Darlings, January 2015 |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780994163851 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2015 |
Brigid Mullane
COMMENTARY
Connor Tomas O’Brien ‘Patching Things Up: Kevin Andrews’ Quest to Win the Marriage Wars’
Elizabeth Flux ‘The Course of True Love: Seven Weeks to a Stronger Relationship’
Ender Baskan ‘High Alert: Salmon Baguettes and a Commercial Jet at the 2014 AFL Grand Final’
Lindsay Simpson ‘Loving Sandra: My Partner in Crime’
Daniel Burdon ‘Beneath the Surface: The Battle for Hearts, Minds and the Great Barrier Reef’
Sharon Hayes ‘Happily Ever After: Romance, Gender and the Building Blocks of Domestic Violence’
Lou Heinrich ‘Name Calling: Coverture in a Feminist Age’
Royce Kurmelovs ‘Petrol, Sweat and Whiskey: What Killing the Car Industry Means for Adelaide’s Working Class North’
Kate Harper ‘Wrestling with Myself: Uninitiated and Ringside at the WWE’
Alexandra Potter ‘Lock-Up or Lock-Out: The NSW Government’s Response to Alcohol-related Violence’
FICTION
Jessie Cole ‘The Hook’
Anna Spargo-Ryan ‘And the Flies’
INTERVIEW
Patrick Allington in Conversation with Peter Carey
REVIEWS
Nathan Smith ‘Eighty Years of Magical Thinking: On Joan Didion’
Simon Castles ‘Beyond the Boundary: Where Are the Australian Cricket Novels?’
Catriona Menzies-Pike ‘How Should a Feminist Critic Be?: On Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist’
Kill Your Darlings, January 2015 Reviews
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A great issue, BUT: I was continually disappointed to finish too-short essays only to find the full version will be published online later this month. Print pages might be limited, but paying print subscribers deserve better than that.
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Generally not a bad issue, and I did like that there was somewhat of a theme, so much of the commentary dealt with related issues.
But despite the fact that this was one of the longer issues at 191 pages (most are around 160, though the page count has been climbing recently) I did leave feeling a little short-changed by the fact that some of the essays were truncated, to be published in full on the KYD website later in the month. Royce Kurmelovs' essay ended at a fairly natural stopping point, but the other two seemed to really cut out mid-stride, and it was quite jarring.
EDIT: having now seen the full articles, they are much longer than I thought they would be, and I understand it wasn't practical to include all three - or even just one - in their entireties in the print edition. I stand by my statement that it left me feeling short-changed, but I have to admit I don't see an easy alternative.
