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KYD at MWF 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Hello loyal and lovely Killings’ followers! Just a little note to say we’ll be flat out with the Melbourne Writers Festival this week. Once we’ve shaken off our Festival hangover and calmed down af...
Amusements and Distractions 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. You know nothing, Jon Snow. Except abs. You know a lot about abs. Abs. Imagine you’re sit...
Little Pearlers Ep. 2: Career 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Grown-ups can learn a lot from children. When it comes to the big questions in life, children have a natural ability to wonder. In this second episode, Erin and Fleur find out what our Little Pearlers...
Masterpiece or Misfire?: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives 20 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
In Nicolas Winding Refn’s provocative new film, Only God Forgives, boxing club manager-drug smuggler Julian (Ryan Gosling) finds himself hopelessly trapped in the realm between heaven and hell, a s...
The adult vs children’s lit debate: An interview with Morris Gleitzman 19 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
There’s been much debate in the world of young adult (YA) literature after children’s author/illustrator Shoo Rayner posted a blog questioning the decision to award author Patrick Ness the Carnegie...
Amusements and Distractions 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. A zoo in China has been caught out pretending that a fluffy dog is an African lion. Who ev...
KYDs’ picks for #MWF13 15 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The Kill Your Darlings team is very excited about the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival, running from Thursday 22 August to Sunday 1 September. With over 350 events, there’s almost too much to se...
Exercise and the Writer 14 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
From Dylan Thomas, the Beats and Hunter S Thompson, to fictional Bernard Black, the image of the writer has long been romanticised as an unhealthy, alcoholic and otherwise-addled self-destructive forc...
Slim recognition: on the presence of women in film 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
On July 30, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences appointed a new president; Cheryl Boone Isaacs will be the thirty-third head of the Academy, but only the third woman to hold the position. ...
It’s love and it’s Australian and it’s here: An interview with Donna Ward 12 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
I married eight weeks ago. Earnestly searching for the right words at the right moment with the right man, I pleaded help from poetry aficionado and friend Donna Ward. Donna, in turn, asked Mark Trede...
