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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in FourThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
FASHION - Australian & New Zealand Designers
The lack of fashion journalism in Australia (and by that I mean good fashion journalism) can be put down to several things. One of them being that fashion seems unable to qualify for the in-depth journalistic review given to other topics. Sure, fashion should and does take its place in the context of world issues but I don't agree that it can't enter the realm of 'topics for good discussion'.
Beer & Brewer
Ah, Beer magazine. The place where geeky and blokey meet. And get drunk.
You can't get much geekier than proudly proclaiming "191 beers inside". Other geeky topics in the Spring issue of this quarterly mag: 'frontier' (experimental or unusual) beers, Melbourne bar Biero's patented 'Beervault', Italian craft beers, and a Melbournian sustainability consultant who caters events on a pushbike loaded with kegs of his own craft beer.
Portable Grindhouse : The Lost Art of the VHS Box
Let's play 'I spy'. Ready? Look around you. I spy something that in ten years will be obsolete.
Portable Grindhouseis a tributary 'don't know what you've got 'till it's gone' love letter to the awesomeness that was the 80s videotape box. The focus here is on lowbrow films, from obscure Ilsa flicks to Charles Bronson cheese.
'This Thing Called Progress', New Planes Public Press
You know Morgs and Lisa from this e-newsletter you're reading right now. They're good those two - they know what they like and they like to spread what they know. But lurking behind their love of 180-word reviews has long lain a desire to run free! To write things that are as long as they darn well please, with no pesky editorial guidelines to fence them in.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis - PART 2
Robert Coleman's interview with Bret Easton Ellis started badly, or well, depending on your definition of either term. Read on for part 2, in which Coleman's questions run out, and Bret asks "So how are we going to wrap this up?"
Robert Coleman - Okay, so are you going to be re-introducing any characters in future works?
Bret Easton Ellis - No.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis - PART 1
Bret Easton Ellis is taller than I'd imagined and less humble than I'd hoped. I guess I had it coming - never having finished any of his books and substituting lack of research by watching American Psycho for the first time after nine beers only the night before. The surprising outcome was, as he put it, "an undiluted Bret Easton Ellis experience.
Torpedo Greatest Hits
After three years, seven issues and a smorgasbord of contributions from writers near and far, illustrious and unknown, the Torpedo fiction quarterly has decided to call it a day. But with a name like that, don't expect it to go out with a whimper. Editor Chris Flynn has teamed up with the folks at Hunter Publishing, and now we have a Greatest Hits anthology in lovely paperback to send it off in style.
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