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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

    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

    James Button on the death of the campaign speech

    — This piece originally appeared as a Crikey News article.  // In 2008 during the Democratic presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton repeated an adage made famous by former New York… Read more “James Button on the death of the campaign speech”

    2013/09/042018/03/22 by missbethanie

    Review. Connie stripped bare for today: Nikki Gemmell’s I Take You

    — This piece originally appeared in The Weekend Australian In the long tradition of erotic novelists, Nikki Gemmell had intended to publish her 2003 work The Bride… Read more “Review. Connie stripped bare for today: Nikki Gemmell’s I Take You”

    2013/07/272014/02/15 by missbethanie

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