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2013

Angst and 'New Adulthood'

Monday, May 20 2013

Veronica Sullivan

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a young person. Maybe you enjoy reading. If so, you are—whether you like it or not—part of the target demographic for ‘new adult fiction’, a genre invented to bridge the gap between young adult and general fiction.

Made of Microbes

Monday, May 20 2013

Rubee Dano

A vaguely scientific public service announcement that we’re all covered in germs, brought to us by Rubee Dano.

Cultural Policy

Friday, May 17 2013

James Zarucky

James Zarucky investigates the Government’s first cultural policy in over twenty years.

Oh, to be an Animorph

Tuesday, May 14 2013

Dan Wood

Dan Wood wants to be a precocious turtle.

Building Broadsheet

Thursday, May 9 2013

Maddison Connaughton

Maddison Connaughton finds the secret of Nick Shelton’s success.

That Pope Cray

Friday, May 3 2013

Rose Johnstone

Papal porn and Vatican gangstas—Rose Johnstone looks at the history of eccentricity amongst leaders of the Catholic faith.

Hiding Away

Friday, April 19 2013

Sean Watson

Sean Watson on Thomas Pynchon and the end of the Literary Recluse.

The Accidental Francophile

Thursday, April 11 2013

Zoe Kingsley

It started innocently enough. A quick browse; a form of pre-work procrastination, which had become part of a mundane routine honed over the summer. Where five minutes before my intensely laborious shift of selling t-shirts, I’d find myself picking though the sloppily-stocked shelves of a certain chain stationary store (begins with ‘T’).

CTRL+ALT+LIT

Friday, April 5 2013

Sian Campbell

When alt lit darlings Tao Lin and Megan Boyle—writers and editors of niche publisher Muumuu House—married in a quickie Vegas ceremony, they filmed it and dropped the news via a live Q&A webstream. If anyone out there is confused about what alt lit is, that might be the best way of explaining it.

Tassie-Mania

Thursday, April 4 2013

Jess O'Callaghan

At some point we all agreed to stop ignoring Tasmania. I’m not sure when it happened, but it did. It’s never been somewhere we could go without, really–cover it up on a map and the mainland just looks naked, like Australia left the house in a hurry and forgot to wear pants.

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Angst and 'New Adulthood'

Veronica Sullivan

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a young person. Maybe you enjoy reading. If so, you are—whether you like it or not—part of the target demographic for ‘new adult fiction’, a genre invented to bridge the gap between young adult and general fiction.

Columns

Melbored: Melbourne Magistrate's Court

Kevin Hawkins

When people put together their bucket list, going to court doesn’t usually make the cut. Much like prisons, brothels, and the Docklands, the courts are one of those places Melbournians have cruelly stigmatised.

Creative

Eight Memories

Melissa Di Giacomo

YOU MUST TAKE THE URINE-STAINED STRETCH of sidewalk leading to the nearest station.

Politics

More Left than Right

Matthew Lesh

Matthew Lesh responds to Edition Two’s feature ‘Same Love’.

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