Contemporary Culture - Read
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.
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.
'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.
mono.kultur, issue #23
If I told you, "I made a smell... in my pants!" You would think I was some kind of comic genius. You wouldn't be wrong, but this would only reinforce smell's status as the underdog of the senses. And that don't smell right.
If Sissel Tolaas told you she made a smell, you would take her seriously.
'TOP' Issue 2
When you're writing about a magazine called TOP, it's harder than it sounds to ignore the hundreds of ‘top' puns trying to jump from your head to the page. When everyone featured in said zine is one of those extremely cool, talented, doing-awesome-things kind of people (read: tops) and excelling in it (read: at the top of their game) it makes it even harder.
'Patterns of Creative Aggression', issue #3
So, there's been a lot of talk lately about iPads, the death of print media and so on. You are probably sick of hearing about such things. Fair enough. BUT. To give a very nice local magazine credit, please look at the latest issue of Patterns of Creative Aggression.
Don't be scared off by the serious title, or slightly austere design.
Kill Your Darlings, issue #2
Melbourne seems to be the primordial soup from which new literary journals in Australia spring forth. The latest is Kill Your Darlings, a quarterly publication showcasing commentary, interviews, new fiction and reviews. Having just completed my masters in creative writing, I look to these journals like they're the cool kids who might one day accept me as one of their own - maybe even go joyriding down Thunder Road with them, or dance at the malt shop.
Fuck Yeah, Jewish Men
My love affair with David Wain began a few years back, upon renting The Ten. I figured a film where Winona Ryder has it off with a dummy was just bound to be all kinds of incredible. Since then, I've devoured everything this man has produced.
It was in being such a devotee, that I found this gem of a site.
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