No. 9 April 2012

• Greg Foyster on how the advertising industry is destroying the planet
• Wayne Macauley on Gerald Murnane's The Plains
• Ruth Starke on the charismatic Don Dunstan
• Luke Meinzen on living in Mongolia
• New fiction from Toni Jordan, Krissy Kneen and Carmel Bird
• KYD in conversation with Kelly Link

Latest from KILLINGS, our blog —

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  Events, giveaway • by Kill Your Darlings • 1 comment

  The Sydney Writers’ Festival at the Wheeler Centre: double passes up for grabs!

  Some of the biggest names at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival will be coming to Melbourne to take part in the Wheeler Centre’s eclectic new series, Five Writers-Five Double-Bills. Luckily for us, the Wheeler Centre has very generously given Kill Your Darlings ten double passes to give … Read more »

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  Literary Links • by Kill Your Darlings • 1 comment

  Amusements and distractions

  Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Is it a bird or a plane? An email or a fax? No, it’s a memo – from David Mamet to writers everywhere. Also potentially of Pinterest for writers and publishers, … Read more »

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  Books • by Ryan Paine

  Bangkok stash: chasing the literary dragon in Thailand

  Even in Chiang Mai, Thailand’s cultural capital, which is Lonely Planet famous for having more second-hand bookshops than pubs, my search for Thai literature in English translation seemed hopeless. I’m here on an Asialink residency, the perfect excuse to indulge my interest in world literature. I eventually … Read more »