This cover of Dolly Parton's Jolene by Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons has basically made my week. In other news: - There are no words to describe how much I love this selection of female mugshots from the 1920s. The hair alone is marvelous, but the stories the photos and characters within them tell… Continue reading Friday Finds
Month: November 2012
Friday Finds
- The AWM Speakeasy blog series interviewing Australian journals and publishing outlets continues to be pretty great. The most recent one is with The Crime Factory, a magazine I wasn't overly familiar with prior to reading. The interview provides a great insight into the publication and the crime/noir-genre as a whole, as well as an… Continue reading Friday Finds
Your Mid-Week Art Break: Hajin Bae
I can barely even vocalise all the feels that Hajin Bae's illustrations give me. Intensely detailed and kind of gentle, they really are a lot of great somethings.
Sunday Short: Yours & Mine by Rhiannon Hartley
Yours and Mine by Rhiannon Hartley is a short piece of memoir as opposed to a short piece of fiction, but it was so lovely I wanted to rec it anyway. Written for the sex issue of Stilts, a local, Brisbane journal, Yours and Mine covers relationships delicately and frankly, from pubescent boyfriends to falling… Continue reading Sunday Short: Yours & Mine by Rhiannon Hartley
Friday Finds
- One day I'll put together a proper post on my strong feelings about cover art, from books to albums to graphic novels, I love a cover's ability to build an audience. Super Punch does these great posts regularly containing the best upcoming comic book covers. The most recent round-up has some particularly great covers,… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
- If you know me well, you know that I have a pretty epic love for all things Fitzgerald, Scott and Zelda both. Which is why this video has kind of made my life in that stupid, bittersweet way this morning. It's pretty lovely. - Flavorwire has compiled a lovely list of some of Sylvia… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
I cannot stop listening to Solange Knowles' 'Losing You'. It's so catchy and - Book spine poetry! This is all so, so great. I'm kind of tempted to brave it over the weekend. - This article on writing horror (when you didn't think you could) is pretty great.
Sophie Overett 