Midnight Morning
Like Hemmingway and his daiquiri, collaborative efforts generally involve violent heartache, breathtaking beauty and copious amounts of alcohol. MIDNIGHT MORNING is no different. These art-nouveau-graphic-novel-Hello-Kitty-inspired illustrations are an expression of three Sydney-based illustrators' temperamental journey of love and devastation.
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekov to Munro
Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the ‘Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories. In 25 parts, MY MISTRESS'S SPARROW IS DEAD charts that many-splendoured thing from its first flush to its final denouement, from ‘voyeuristic longing to disenchanted entanglement'.
Sustainable Sydney 2030
Despite the propaganda and sloganeering inherent with any government or council initiative of this type, SUSTAINABLE SYDNEY 2030 is a project worth having a look at - and the website is a good place to start.
Yes, we all want the new alcohol and licensing laws to happen, but when it comes to long-term urban vision and change there are bigger issues to consider.
Published Art
Published Art may have been around for a while, but like a chameleon it regularly changes its novel skin with the constant flow of art, design and architecture hardbacks.
Trying to pick just one of their recent releases is like trying to choose just one flavour at Baskin. So if you haven’t already, sign up to the mailing list so you may drool over the latest as soon as it’s in store.
McSweeney's Issue 18
Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages seems more lucid than reality, then it means the writer has done a good job.
The short stories that lie between the cardboard and silver foil maze of the McSWEENEY’s ISSUE 18 cover do exactly that.
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