Bethanie Blanchard

— 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”

— 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”

— 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”

— This interview originally appeared as part of SPOOK Magazine’s People Who Do Stuff series. Who are you and what stuff do you do? My name is Bethanie Blanchard.… Read more “Interview with SPOOK magazine”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism.  // “Usually when people say they want to be a writer, they really don’t want to do anything except eat… Read more “The female protagonist as writer — Girls part II”

— This piece originally appeared in The Weekend Australian.  // At what point does a work containing depictions of sex tip from being classified as a novel… Read more “Review- Sister painted into a corner: Krissy Kneen’s Steeplechase”

— This piece originally appeared in Meanjin. // Every week when I visit my GPO box it’s filled with new books from publishing houses, wrapped in cardboard… Read more “What I’m Reading”

— This review originally appeared in The Weekend Australian. // In most love stories the interest is less who the couple eventually will be – be it… Read more “Review. Comic celebration of happy endings”

— This review originally appeared in The Monthly.  // In an era when even supermarkets stock the sadomasochistic confections of EL James, it seems strange that a… Read more “Review: All The Way by Marie Darrieussecq”