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    Chairs Up For The Darts: On Darts Culture in Australia

    — This essay originally appeared in SPOOK Magazine. // You already know how this story ends so I’ll begin ten minutes before the climax. We’re three or… Read more “Chairs Up For The Darts: On Darts Culture in Australia”

    2015/05/012018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Review: Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind Of Girl

    — This review originally appeared in the Weekend Australian.  // As with much of what Lena Dunham creates, her memoir Not That Kind of Girl was culturally significant almost… Read more “Review: Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind Of Girl”

    2014/12/212018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Review: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is For The Thief

    — This review originally appeared in The Weekend Australian. // Since 2011, Teju Cole has been publishing dispatches from the land in which he grew up, Nigeria,… Read more “Review: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is For The Thief”

    2014/05/242018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Literature, Sex and Death: On Reading Supervert’s Necrophilia Variations.

    — This essay originally appeared in The Lifted Brow. // “We were at a party, you and I, in celebration of a long-forgotten cause for joy.” A… Read more “Literature, Sex and Death: On Reading Supervert’s Necrophilia Variations.”

    2014/03/252018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Books on Radio National Breakfast

    // At the beginning of this year I was lucky enough to be invited to run a books segment on Radio National breakfast over summer. For the… Read more “Books on Radio National Breakfast”

    2014/01/172018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Review: Tim Winton’s Eyrie

    — This review originally appeared on the Wheeler Centre.  // The protagonist of Tim Winton’s Eyrie notes that his behaviour was once characterised as “florid and manic.… Read more “Review: Tim Winton’s Eyrie”

    2014/01/162018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Review: Zadie Smith’s Embassy of Cambodia – Finding beauty in the smallest circle

      – This piece originally appeared in The Weekend Australian. // It doesn’t have the same aphoristic ring as judging by their cover, but should we judge… Read more “Review: Zadie Smith’s Embassy of Cambodia – Finding beauty in the smallest circle”

    2013/12/282018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Meanjin Tournament of Books: Breath vs Sea Hearts

    — This piece originally appeared in Meanjin.  // I read once that vertigo is less about the fear of falling than the desire to fall. An overwhelming… Read more “Meanjin Tournament of Books: Breath vs Sea Hearts”

    2013/12/272018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Interview: Working with Words

    — This interview originally appeared as part of the Wheeler Centre’s Working With Words Series. Bethanie Blanchard is Crikey’s literary blogger, at Liticism, and a regular contributor to Guardian Australia.… Read more “Interview: Working with Words”

    2013/11/212018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Publications should not profit from scribes willing to work for nothing

    — This piece originally appeared as an op ed in The Sunday Age. // There had been whispers among my writer friends that Private Media, publisher of Crikey,… Read more “Publications should not profit from scribes willing to work for nothing”

    2013/11/172018/03/22 by missbethanie

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