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January 2012

• Tue 24 What I'm Reading — Ronnie Scott
• Mon 23 Reading: The Best Australian Essays 2011
• Mon 16 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and the modern audience — Interview with Ray Lawler

December 2011

• Thu 15 Truth, Fiction and Autumn Laing — A Conversation with Alex Miller
• Mon 12 Meanland Blog — (Overly?) Optimistic End of Year Thoughts re the Novel.
• Fri 02 You’re Not An Emerging Writer Unless You’ve Published A Book

November 2011

• Mon 28 Reading: What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
• Wed 23 Meanland Blog — Diane Simonelli
• Fri 18 What I'm Reading — David Mence
• Thu 17 Men Call Me Things
• Thu 10 Meanjin and Overland added to the ERA 2012 Journal List
• Fri 04 Writing Misplaced in Cyprus
• Thu 03 Meanland Blog — Catherine Moffat
• Wed 02 “Literature should get to the heart of human interaction and sex… is that beating heart”: An Interview with Krissy Kneen

October 2011

• Wed 26 What I'm (Not/Half) Reading — Sam Twyford-Moore
• Tue 25 Meanland Blog —The Revolution Will be Tweeted and Televised
• Wed 19 Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
• Tue 18 On Writing and Competitions
• Mon 17 What I'm Reading (and reading on) — Damon Young
• Thu 13 Meanland Blog — John Weldon
• Wed 12 What I'm Reading — Brian Johns
• Tue 11 The Reluctant Writer: Jonathan Safran Foer In Conversation
• Fri 07 My risk-taking friend
• Fri 07 In The Garden
• Wed 05 Vale Diana Gribble
• Tue 04 What I'm Reading — Alan Kohler

September 2011

• Thu 29 Gods of the Hammer — Naomi Manuell
• Wed 28 Q&A with Christos Tsiolkas about the The Slap television series
• Tue 27 Penguin Plays Rough — A conversation with Pip Smith
• Mon 26 What I'm Watching — Alison Croggon
• Fri 23 Jenny Grigg and the art of Meanjin
• Wed 21 MWF ‘11 Coverage: 22nd Century Bookstores
• Tue 20 Tournament of Books Chart
• Mon 19 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS: The Lost Dog VS Gilgamesh
• Thu 15 Tournament of Books Contenders
• Thu 15 Meanland: Appearances and Disappearances of Book Rooms and Stores
• Thu 15 The Cutting Room Floor
• Wed 14 The Write Tools
• Tue 13 MWF ‘11 Coverage: Anna Funder in Conversation
• Mon 12 The morning after my father died | On Flickr
• Fri 09 Meanland: Brave New World?
• Fri 09 MWF '11 Coverage: Writers and Their Craft
• Thu 08 Pozible, Crowdfunding and the Emerging Writers’ Festival
• Wed 07 MWF ‘11 Coverage: Irresistible Book Design
• Tue 06 Welcome to the new Meanjin, Part 2
• Mon 05 MWF ‘11 Coverage: Tasmania’s Call
• Thu 01 Welcome to the new Meanjin

August 2011

• Tue 30 MWF '11 Coverage: A Long Long Way To Go - Why We Still Need Feminism
• Mon 29 MWF '11 Coverage: Stories Unbound
• Sun 28 MWF '11 Coverage: Why I Read
• Sat 27 MWF '11 Coverage: State of the (Literary) Nation
• Sat 27 MWF '11 Coverage: Jonathan Franzen - On Autobiographical Fiction
• Mon 22 The Meanjin Tournament of Books
• Thu 18 Meanland Blog — Diane Simonelli
• Wed 03 Meanland Blog - Slut Walks, Filter Bubbles and Citation Analysis

July 2011

• Thu 28 Writing Rituals
• Fri 22 Meanland Blog — How I buy books: future, past, present
• Fri 08 Meanland Blog Entry—The world is my library and we are all librarians now.

June 2011

• Wed 29 Meanland Blog Winner — Ali Alizadeh
• Wed 22 Poetry Corrections from the June Meanjin
• Wed 22 Meanland Blog Winner — Catherine Moffat
• Tue 21 “Citizens of Literature”: Notes from the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011.
• Fri 10 Winners of the Meanland Blog Comp
• Thu 09 Weekend Reading
• Fri 03 Peter Carey’s message to Fairfax

May 2011

• Thu 26 Why Tumblr
• Thu 19 Weekend Reading
• Mon 16 Liquid Inspiration
• Tue 10 Budget 2011: A Journey in Verse
• Thu 05 Weekend Reading
• Thu 05 New Australian Fiction Prize for Women
• Wed 04 Killing in the name of... (money)

April 2011

• Thu 28 Weekend Reading
• Wed 27 MEANLAND BLOGGER COMPETITION
• Thu 21 A Night at the D.F.W.W.C.L.I.
• Thu 21 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards to be the Richest in Australia
• Tue 19 Miles Franklin Short(er)list
• Thu 14 Weekend Reading
• Wed 13 Secondhand Lessons
• Fri 08 Weekend Reading
• Sat 02 Weekend Reading

March 2011

• Wed 30 David Malouf Nominated for Man Booker International Prize
• Thu 24 Weekend Reading
• Thu 24 Editing Others
• Tue 22 Film Offer
• Wed 16 Meanland: Visual-eyes
• Fri 04 Housekeeping
• Tue 01 Stripped

February 2011

• Mon 28 On reader's block
• Sun 27 The basics
• Sat 26 Fat Cactus
• Fri 25 Real-life reenactment of The Simpsons opening credits
• Thu 24 Meanland: I can tell much about you from the way you write
• Wed 23 Spike giveaway round two - free double passes to Andrew O'Hagan and Annie Proulx in Sydney!
• Wed 23 Film Posters for Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood'
• Tue 22 After the fall: A few thoughts on Borders and the future of bookselling
• Mon 21 Overlooked Typefaces
• Sun 20 Colour in Japan
• Sat 19 Fat Cactus
• Fri 18 Peter Temple's Truth to be made into film
• Thu 17 Der Mensch als Industriepalast
• Wed 16 Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 - Regional Shortlists
• Tue 15 The rules that made me
• Mon 14 Watch your spines
• Sun 13 Defaced cover art
• Sat 12 Fat Cactus
• Thu 10 Subscriber giveaway - free double passes to Andrew O'Hagan and Annie Proulx in Sydney!
• Thu 10 Hunting in the USSR - vintage travel posters
• Wed 09 Story of a Cover: Diego Patiño
• Tue 08 Waves of Love
• Mon 07 The Different Types of People There Are on the Internet
• Sun 06 lower case - czech, german and european typography
• Sat 05 Fat Cactus
• Fri 04 Should you work for free?: a quick Q&A guide
• Thu 03 Review: Five Bells by Gail Jones
• Wed 02 Insecurity
• Tue 01 Truman Capote and the World He Made

January 2011

• Mon 31 On running before we can walk – short stories and the novel
• Sun 30 Letters from designers to designers
• Sat 29 Fat Cactus
• Fri 28 The deep
• Thu 27 Open letters: a tale of love, found and replaced
• Wed 26 Five Emotions Invented by the Internet
• Wed 26 The Readings Ebookstore has arrived!
• Tue 25 Behind the cover of 'An Object of Beauty'
• Mon 24 What’s it worth to you? Books and the cost of reading.
• Sun 23 The Alphabet and Sky High
• Sat 22 Fat Cactus
• Thu 20 Tiny Revolutions
• Thu 20 The Book: A Revolutionary Tale
• Wed 19 Ode to science-fiction corridors
• Tue 18 When things gets wet - dirt, mould, distortion, disintegration
• Mon 17 What Do Editors Do All Day, part 4 - Blurb Writing

December 2010

• Fri 10 Welcome to Sally Heath
• Thu 09 A stitch in time: In which Sophie and Jess chew the fat about all things past, present and future
• Wed 08 Six questions for Kate Holden
• Tue 07 Praise be to Gaia: Reviews of Here on Earth and The Legacy
• Mon 06 Timid Minds
• Sun 05 Ode to Saul Bass
• Sat 04 Fat Cactus
• Fri 03 The Arctic Circle
• Thu 02 Paraphrasing from ‘Meanland: Reading Without Privacy’
• Thu 02 Origin of the species
• Wed 01 Winner of the ABR Short Story Competition 2010
• Wed 01 Staging The Tell-Tale Heart

November 2010

• Tue 30 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize Longlist
• Tue 30 Story of a Cover: Stuart Geddes
• Mon 29 All in the Family: Three Australian Women Directors
• Sun 28 Science fiction in the cold war era
• Sat 27 Fat Cactus
• Fri 26 Five Writers on their Agents
• Thu 25 The Evolution of Spunc
• Thu 25 Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)
• Wed 24 Animation Fixation
• Tue 23 From page to screen
• Mon 22 A Cork upon the Ocean: Meanjin and the Changing Context, 1940-2010
• Mon 22 Swimming Up the Down Current: Sophie Cunningham talks to William Dalrymple
• Sun 21 Vintage manga
• Sat 20 Fat Cactus
• Fri 19 Five Questions for Peter Coghill
• Thu 18 Winner of the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize 2010
• Thu 18 DRM and Writers: Fight for Your Right to Parity
• Wed 17 Of thieves and soloists – a response to Lev Grossman
• Tue 16 Meanland Tonight: Reading Without Privacy
• Tue 16 Five Questions for Dale Campisi
• Mon 15 Book Doomsday: The March of Progress and the Fate of the Book
• Sun 14 In a science fiction universe
• Sat 13 Fat Cactus
• Fri 12 What goes into making a cover
• Thu 11 On privacy and self in a networked era
• Thu 11 Meanland: Reading Without Privacy
• Thu 11 The expurgated version
• Wed 10 'Blood and Blood and More Blood'
• Tue 09 You will read ebooks. Maybe. One day.
• Tue 09 Winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010
• Tue 09 Five questions for Emilie Zoey Baker
• Mon 08 The Nicholas Building: A User’s Manual
• Sun 07 Interim editions
• Sat 06 Fat Cactus
• Fri 05 A day in the life of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
• Thu 04 Thoughts on The Social Network
• Wed 03 On Liking the Unlikeable: The Case of Betty Draper
• Tue 02 Meanland Extract: On the ‘thing-i-ness’ of books...
• Tue 02 Meanland Extract: When does print matter?
• Tue 02 Five questions for Michael Brady
• Mon 01 Unique and Deplorable: Regulating Drinking in Victoria

October 2010

• Sun 31 Once upon a time in Japan
• Sat 30 Fat Cactus
• Fri 29 Welcome to the Institute for Sweet Valley High-related Cultural Studies
• Thu 28 Preserving Bronte
• Wed 27 A Cork upon the Ocean: Meanjin and the Changing Context, 1940-2010
• Wed 27 Five questions for Bruno Herfst
• Tue 26 Review: Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
• Mon 25 Repeat offenders
• Sun 24 And you're not gonna reach my telephone
• Sat 23 Fat Cactus
• Fri 22 Spike Giveaway: Man Bites Murdoch
• Fri 22 Spike Giveaway: art+soul
• Fri 22 The world is full of interesting things (and here are some)
• Thu 21 Anti-Prize Culture?
• Wed 20 Activism vs Twitter
• Wed 20 Reframing the Australian game
• Tue 19 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival #3
• Tue 19 Meanland Extract: On the Twitters
• Tue 19 Bro fist?
• Tue 19 Letter from Saul Bellow to Philip Roth: 'I don't live right'
• Mon 18 There's something about Mary
• Mon 18 Lessons Learned from Literature
• Sun 17 Colour Wheels
• Sat 16 Fat Cactus
• Fri 15 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival #2
• Fri 15 BOOKish
• Fri 15 Congrats to Meanjin authors in Black Inc.'s Best Ofs
• Fri 15 How to win readers and influence book sales
• Thu 14 Publish Your Self
• Thu 14 Spike Giveaway: Free double-passes to The City of Your Final Destination
• Thu 14 Five Questions for Kristel Thornell
• Wed 13 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival #1
• Wed 13 The Kraken Wakes
• Tue 12 Meanland extract: These people have something to tell you
• Tue 12 Copyfights, circa 1842
• Mon 11 No Place like Home
• Sun 10 Superhero minimalism
• Sat 09 Fat Cactus
• Fri 08 Smoke and mirrors – how book designers get their favourite covers over the line
• Thu 07 How music is changing – often for the better – and a Ride clip!
• Wed 06 Review: Kraken by China Miéville
• Tue 05 Meanland Extract: On ‘anonymous’ sources
• Tue 05 The Kindle: My Annoying New Best Friend
• Mon 04 Anzac: Endurance, Truth, Courage and Mythology
• Sun 03 When Herzog rescued Phoenix, an Animated Tale
• Sat 02 Fat Cactus
• Fri 01 Crossword Challenge: Answers to Right back at ya!
• Fri 01 Five Questions for Chris Flynn

September 2010

• Thu 30 Those who do not have imagination cannot imagine possibility
• Wed 29 Winners of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010
• Wed 29 Thoughts on Tomorrow When the War Began
• Tue 28 Viral Video Culture: From Numa Numa to Old Spice
• Mon 27 It's just the vibe of the thing
• Mon 27 E-books and the Australian Publishing Industry
• Sun 26 Sci-Fi Pulp Illustrations - Spaceships at Angkor Wat
• Sat 25 Fat Cactus
• Fri 24 Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
• Thu 23 Meanland Extract: Putting the community back in culture (and not a moment too soon)
• Thu 23 Critical failure…
• Wed 22 Navigating AussieCon 4
• Tue 21 Six Questions for Maggie Mackellar
• Mon 20 Letter to the Editor
• Mon 20 Between Art and Garbage
• Sun 19 Moshun - the Animated Font
• Sat 18 Fat Cactus
• Fri 17 More Happy
• Fri 17 Here's some happy
• Fri 17 Meanjin Subscriber 'Street Art' Giveaway Round 2!
• Fri 17 The Last Record Holders – Pac Man and the Kill Screen
• Thu 16 Meanland Extract: Regarding the very modern ebook machine thing
• Thu 16 Huxley in Wonderland
• Thu 16 Melbourne Poetry Map
• Wed 15 Days of Our Lives
• Wed 15 Second life: The Man Who Love Children by Christina Stead
• Wed 15 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2010
• Tue 14 New fiction: The Secret of the Dark Elves
• Mon 13 Writing for Others
• Sun 12 In space, no one can hear you scream
• Sat 11 Fat Cactus
• Fri 10 On YA Covers
• Fri 10 Meanjin Subscriber 'Street Art' Giveaway!
• Thu 09 Chick flicks
• Thu 09 EBrooks: Streaming the Future
• Wed 08 Meanland Extract: Bookless shelves and ‘Myspace or whatever’
• Wed 08 Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2010
• Wed 08 Keeping Secrets
• Tue 07 Announcing the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize 2010
• Tue 07 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Winners 2010
• Tue 07 Meanland extract: Copyright vs Creativity
• Tue 07 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Shortlists 2010
• Tue 07 Six questions for Chris Womersley
• Mon 06 The week of festivaling dangerously
• Mon 06 The Morgue
• Mon 06 Winners of the Ned Kelly Awards 2010
• Sun 05 Colour to fade out
• Sat 04 Review of Kingsley McGlew’s 'Distance'
• Sat 04 Fat Cactus
• Fri 03 Way Down in the Hole
• Thu 02 Five Questions for David Astle
• Thu 02 Crossword Challenge Winner: Right back at ya!
• Wed 01 Cory Doctorow. Melbourne, tomorrow night. Copyright vs Creativity.
• Wed 01 On Interns
• Wed 01 Reading in an Age of Change essays now online

August 2010

• Tue 31 Getting noisy - in an awesome way
• Tue 31 MWF: Meanjin @Magazine this Saturday
• Tue 31 Grisly Morgue Photo
• Tue 31 Miller, Howarth and Maiden win Age Book of the Year Awards
• Tue 31 Just say yes to Mad Men
• Mon 30 Story of a Cover: Marcela Restrepo
• Sun 29 Yonder by Emilia Forstreuter
• Sat 28 Fat Cactus
• Fri 27 Noise, now: Listening to Networks
• Thu 26 Doctorow and the Copyfight
• Wed 25 Printing poets at Otago
• Tue 24 Roller Derby
• Mon 23 Histories & Economics
• Sun 22 On the Tokyo Loop
• Sat 21 Fat Cactus
• Fri 20 Five Questions for Leanne Hall
• Thu 19 Getting ready for the MWF
• Thu 19 Sustaining the arts
• Wed 18 Meanland Extract: ‘No thanks, I’ve seen an old issue at the library’
• Wed 18 The Facts about Refugees
• Wed 18 The Downfall Meme: YouTube and Content ID
• Tue 17 Made for each other: short stories and the iPhone
• Tue 17 Meanland extract: If newspapers are so great, why is the election being fought online?
• Tue 17 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist 2010
• Tue 17 Ned Kelly Awards Shortlists 2010
• Tue 17 Ned’s Women: A Fractured Love Story
• Mon 16 Five Questions for Design by Committee
• Sun 15 The future, brought to you by the past
• Sat 14 Fat Cactus
• Fri 13 Now everyone’s a critic, who’s a critic now?
• Thu 12 Nude, with cat
• Wed 11 What do Editors Do All Day, Part 3 - Wrangling the Cover
• Tue 10 Grind and fry
• Tue 10 Hong Kong Letterpress: Wai Che Printing Company
• Mon 09 An abomination
• Mon 09 This Is Not a Hobby
• Sun 08 Awakening and Between Bears
• Sat 07 Fat Cactus
• Fri 06 Tardigotchi
• Thu 05 Meanland extract: Time and space and the literary journal
• Thu 05 Going viral: short film in the digital era
• Wed 04 A Whale of a Tale: Hatoyama’s 'New' Japan
• Tue 03 The Age Book of the Year 2010 shortlists
• Tue 03 Flesh and Stardust
• Mon 02 Why the Internet is Punk
• Sun 01 TypoElements

July 2010

• Sat 31 Fat Cactus
• Fri 30 Sci-fi Illustration: Travellers in Space
• Thu 29 Meanland extract: The democratisation of publishing (and a bit of Clay Shirky for good measure)
• Thu 29 On Writing and Running
• Wed 28 Meanland essays now online
• Wed 28 Six questions for Jon Bauer
• Tue 27 Hollywood comes calling for Sartre
• Mon 26 The Shadow in the Valley
• Sun 25 Big Bang Big Boom
• Sat 24 Fat Cactus
• Fri 23 What's the Story?
• Fri 23 Killing off Helvetica
• Thu 22 Meanland Extract: Amazon and that old fudging figures manoeuvre
• Thu 22 The F-Word: Is it possible to write genre with a feminist agenda?
• Wed 21 Meanjin at the Melbourne Writers Festival
• Wed 21 Spike Giveaway: Free double-passes to Four Lions
• Wed 21 Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 5
• Tue 20 The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time 2009 and the Dominance of the Rock Canon
• Mon 19 Thoughts on Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Sun 18 Alex Varanese: We are not time travellers
• Sat 17 Fat Cactus
• Fri 16 The problem with pop feminism: why Emily Gould is right
• Thu 15 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlists 2010
• Thu 15 Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 4
• Wed 14 Meanland Extract: A Gutenberg moment?
• Wed 14 This Is Not An Exit
• Tue 13 Five Questions for Shaun Tan
• Mon 12 The Culturestate
• Sun 11 History of the typewriter, recited by Michael Winslow
• Sat 10 Fat Cactus
• Fri 09 Dear Danny – fictitious dedications by Etgar Keret
• Thu 08 Meanland Extract - At the mercy of our instruments
• Thu 08 Six questions for Margo Lanagan
• Wed 07 On the Invisibility of Sleep
• Tue 06 Australian Book Industry Awards Winners 2010
• Tue 06 Down in the Treme
• Tue 06 Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 3
• Mon 05 Precious Breeding Time
• Sun 04 Pakkuman
• Sat 03 Fat Cactus
• Fri 02 In which we are enthusiasts (and pessimists)
• Thu 01 Meanland extract: On Wholphin, and other things McSweeney
• Thu 01 Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 2

June 2010

• Wed 30 Six questions for Fiona McGregor
• Tue 29 On the Lip of a Crater
• Mon 28 Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 1
• Sun 27 Manga Newspapers
• Sat 26 Fat Cactus
• Fri 25 Incarnations – Cover Redesigns
• Thu 24 Meanland extract: The incalculable cultural significance of The Library
• Thu 24 On writing and research
• Wed 23 Peter Temple's Truth wins Miles Franklin 2010
• Wed 23 Seven questions for Caroline Lee
• Tue 22 Lady Gaga, ‘Telephone’ and 21st century ‘noise’
• Tue 22 Dinner at the Lodge
• Mon 21 On memoirs
• Sun 20 Mars and the Baltimore Clap
• Sat 19 Fat Cactus
• Fri 18 How I Met Your Motherboard
• Thu 17 Playing in the real and the virtual
• Wed 16 Meanland extract: The great paywall of Murdoch
• Wed 16 Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlists 2010
• Wed 16 Writing about Writing
• Tue 15 A Critical Mind: On Sam Goldberg
• Mon 14 Six questions for Oslo Davis
• Sun 13 Accidental Tetris
• Sun 13 The Finances of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sat 12 Fat Cactus
• Fri 11 Writers' festival question time: thoughts from the chair
• Thu 10 Swapping words across the digital space - the rise of online interviews
• Wed 09 Meanland extract: New publishing models: a shifting of power
• Wed 09 What makes a great non-fiction cover?
• Tue 08 Engineering Redemption: Adoption Policy in the 1960s
• Mon 07 Who are you calling derivative?
• Sun 06 Pixel Art
• Sat 05 Fat Cactus
• Fri 04 GOOGLE (say 'goohguhl) (googled, googling)
• Thu 03 Meanland extract: The iPad: tool of revolution or contrivance of capitalism?
• Thu 03 Gaming in the Nineties
• Wed 02 Hemingway's Fists
• Tue 01 New territories: Sophie Cunningham talks to Steven Amsterdam

May 2010

• Mon 31 The Children’s Books of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Chinua Achebe & Others
• Sun 30 Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade
• Sat 29 Fat Cactus
• Fri 28 Meanjin/Griffith Review Special Double Subscription Offer!
• Fri 28 I, Helvetica
• Thu 27 Sad news for newmatilda.com
• Thu 27 On Writing and Identity
• Wed 26 Meanland extract - What is it that makes the web so amazing?
• Wed 26 Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age
• Tue 25 NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010
• Tue 25 The Book of Famous Paintings
• Mon 24 Living books – on rewriting in the digital age
• Sun 23 Strandbeesten, by Theo Jansen
• Sat 22 Introducing: Fat Cactus - links to the world at large
• Fri 21 Why the iPhone app will eventually take over the guide book
• Thu 20 Meanland extract - Reading in a time of technology
• Thu 20 Spike Giveaway: Free double-passes to Farewell at Cinema Nova!
• Thu 20 Of dogs and people
• Wed 19 Ned Kelly Awards Nominations 2010
• Wed 19 Oh indeed
• Tue 18 Meanland: Reading in a Time of Technology and SWF
• Tue 18 A Novel Approach to Religion
• Mon 17 The Weingarten Post
• Sun 16 Archigram Archives
• Fri 14 The Making of Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel – Part Two
• Fri 14 The Making of Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel – Part One
• Thu 13 The Australian Centre Cultural Awards
• Thu 13 Meanjin 70 Year Crossword Challenge: And the winner is....
• Thu 13 Ethics of Publishing
• Wed 12 Meanland extract: There are some people not on Twitter (a post for the modern-day luddite)
• Wed 12 Can we define originality?
• Tue 11 Farewell Notes: The Pathos of Things
• Mon 10 Unholy Enthusiasm
• Sun 09 Call Me Ishmael – Drawing Moby Dick
• Fri 07 Bids to ban the burqa
• Fri 07 Indigenous Literacy Project
• Thu 06 Meanland extract: An argument for long form
• Thu 06 The Page E-Newspaper Prototype
• Wed 05 Women behaving badly?
• Wed 05 There Will Come Soft Rains – Russian Sci-Fi Animation
• Tue 04 Meanjin Seventy Year Crossword Challenge - The Answers You Seek....
• Tue 04 Making a living as an artist
• Mon 03 What constitutes editorial bias?
• Sun 02 Beautifully Banal

April 2010

• Fri 30 Public Art: Fixed or Fluid?
• Thu 29 It Ain’t Beirut: Baltimore on The Wire
• Thu 29 On Treme, Truth and Writing
• Wed 28 Meanland extract: Numbers, numbers and more numbers...
• Wed 28 The Miles Franklin: One Prize to Rule Them All?
• Tue 27 Heavens Below: The Religious Impulse in a Secular World
• Mon 26 Anzac thoughts
• Mon 26 A World Without Sun
• Sun 25 Kinetic Typography
• Fri 23 Passive Aggressive Library Signs
• Thu 22 The two-headed beast: writers working as editors working as…
• Wed 21 Meanland extract: So you’re writing a blog post?
• Wed 21 In Defence of Independent Bookstores
• Tue 20 ‘Like this little spirit that wafts’: Contemporary Theatre in Australia
• Mon 19 Writers, thinkers and poets, as ranked their beards
• Sun 18 365 Days: Making Something
• Thu 15 Typo
• Thu 15 Pixels
• Wed 14 Meanland extract: The Google Reader will creep up and steal all your spare reading/writing time in the blink of an eye
• Wed 14 Interspecies love
• Wed 14 Blogging – Where Are We Now?
• Tue 13 Where have all the players gone?
• Tue 13 On SKIN: Shelley Jackson’s Ineradicable Stain
• Mon 12 Phantasmagorical Writing Inventions: The Inspiratron & Others
• Sun 11 Magazines in the Age of the iPad
• Fri 09 Memories of a Mentor: Bruce Dawe
• Thu 08 What will happen to book covers in a digital world?
• Wed 07 Meanland extract: You are not reading enough
• Wed 07 Exciting new initiative for Australian poets by Varuna, Byron Bay Writers Festival and Picaro Press
• Wed 07 Single Sentence Animation
• Tue 06 How long should a novel be?
• Mon 05 Towards an Australian Graphic Novel: A response to Meanjin and Comics
• Sun 04 Design cycles: from vintage to contemporary and back again
• Thu 01 Meanjin Seventy Year Crossword Challenge – Deadline Extended!
• Thu 01 April Fools

March 2010

• Wed 31 Dear Minister
• Wed 31 On Lettercult
• Tue 30 Meanland extract – The lowdown on the eReader
• Tue 30 Watching Me, Watching You: Copyright and ‘Sampling’ in a Digital Era
• Mon 29 Horse montage! The Beatles!
• Mon 29 The Hurt Locker – Fact or Fiction?
• Sun 28 Don't think it's all/going to survive/it is...
• Fri 26 Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner
• Thu 25 Is it possible to write good fiction about climate change?
• Wed 24 Meanland extract – SXSW: forecasting how we will read, write and create
• Wed 24 Are Artists Fragile?
• Tue 23 The Definitive Rulebook on How to Get Published
• Mon 22 Light entertainment?
• Mon 22 Dog's Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung
• Sun 21 A little post-Oscars funny
• Fri 19 The David Foster Wallace Archives
• Thu 18 Dark Matters – More on YA
• Wed 17 Q&A with Chris Baty, NaNoWriMo founder
• Tue 16 Buy yourself a Pussy Wagon
• Tue 16 How do I love thee (autumn Meanjin)? Let me count the ways.
• Mon 15 On ebooks and beauty
• Sun 14 Dear Mr Martel
• Fri 12 Everything is Illuminated, under the Brooklyn Bridge
• Thu 11 The Secret Life of Stories
• Wed 10 Some quick thoughts on editing
• Tue 09 Seventy Years - Two Crosswords
• Mon 08 Kookaburra, down under and the dire state of copyright law
• Sun 07 A Single Man
• Fri 05 Reject Me Nots: How to Get and Give Rejection Letters
• Thu 04 Some Thoughts on The Hurt Locker
• Wed 03 Vladimir Koncar: Picking Teeth is Easier Than Picking the Right Type
• Tue 02 The Redemptive Ending
• Mon 01 The History of the Sea

February 2010

• Sun 28 Come gather 'round people
• Fri 26 These places were my university
• Fri 26 A Quickening of Interest: The Meanjin Papers
• Thu 25 Looking Inwards Again: End of the Australia-Asia Literary Award
• Wed 24 On Marriage
• Tue 23 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
• Tue 23 Do we take art a little too seriously?
• Mon 22 Lit Prizes: Hiding in Plain Sight
• Sun 21 Record Cover Art: Hvass&Hannibal and Others
• Fri 19 Winner of the Scribe/CAL Fiction Prize announced
• Thu 18 Go well, Ruby
• Thu 18 Get down
• Thu 18 Don’t Carry Inflammable Articles (Your Lucky Number 6)
• Wed 17 MEANJIN BONUS SUBSCRIPTION OFFER!
• Wed 17 The Birth of Times New Roman
• Tue 16 Shadow of a Game: Locating Soccer in Australian Cultural Life
• Mon 15 Do ebooks do poetry any favours?
• Sun 14 Kristiina Lahde
• Fri 12 ABR FAN Poll
• Thu 11 Torpedo goes up on Kindle
• Thu 11 Information Overload Syndrome
• Thu 11 The Great Divide: Does Genre Still Matter?
• Wed 10 Some thoughts on The Road
• Tue 09 What Editors Do All Day, Part Two - Structural Editing
• Mon 08 The Return of the Bones
• Fri 05 RIP John McCallum
• Fri 05 Augmented Reality: The Future, Then and Now
• Thu 04 Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
• Wed 03 Dressing up in Books (and Other Art Forms)
• Wed 03 Here’s Cheers for Small Publishers
• Tue 02 Rethinking Book Piracy
• Mon 01 Don't Judge a Book Cover by its Quotes

January 2010

• Sun 31 Garamond v Impact: How economical is your type?
• Fri 29 Stationery 3 - The Revenge
• Thu 28 Internet Censorship and The Arts
• Wed 27 All Settled? Google Books Deadline Soon
• Wed 27 Stationery 2 - When good pens go bad
• Tue 26 A Tale of Two Legends
• Mon 25 Pram Factory, 1971
• Mon 25 Stationery - in which we pander to fetishists
• Sun 24 How do you judge your success as a writer? Some advice from Bill Murray
• Fri 22 Codex Seraphinianus
• Fri 22 How to become a Lonely Planet author
• Thu 21 Radiohead Journalism
• Wed 20 Clinton Caward – Love Machine
• Tue 19 The Tote
• Tue 19 What gets you reading now?
• Mon 18 Animation: The Legend of Suur Tõll
• Sun 17 OK, Computer
• Fri 15 Their restaurants rule
• Thu 14 Must love books: writers & writers
• Wed 13 Colour Blocker
• Tue 12 Intersections: Some thoughts on Journalism and Fiction
• Mon 11 J.D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye Unfilmable
• Wed 06 Funding discussion circa. 1974

December 2009

• Fri 25 The Caped Christmasader
• Thu 24 The Magazine of the Future
• Wed 23 Literary blockbusters and the zeitgeist
• Tue 22 Funding dramas
• Tue 22 Some things don't change
• Tue 22 Typography Around the World: Arabic Palatino, Vodafone Hindi and Others
• Mon 21 Angry
• Mon 21 Shakespeare in Love?
• Sun 20 Covers as Canvas: the Art of Mike Stilkey
• Fri 18 Merryness and thank yous all round
• Fri 18 And now for something completely different
• Thu 17 No Hollywood End in Sight
• Wed 16 Inflatable Street Art
• Tue 15 Why are all the best bloggers women?
• Mon 14 Shilo
• Mon 14 Is the Carnival Over?
• Sun 13 The Dark Depths of Google
• Fri 11 Some Advice from Peter Carey
• Thu 10 Happy Birthday Bob
• Thu 10 Soccer vs AFL
• Thu 10 Old Types: Cormac McCarthy and the Olivetti
• Wed 09 Subscriber Giveaway Christmas Extravaganza!
• Tue 08 An Uncomfortable Question on the Great Australian Novel
• Mon 07 Underland
• Mon 07 Lost children and literary hauntings
• Mon 07 On Wheels: The Art of Skateboarding
• Sun 06 Noveller – the micro-blogging tool for novels
• Fri 04 The Abbott and the Women: some thoughts
• Fri 04 The Evolution of Type
• Thu 03 Spike Reader Poll: The Results
• Wed 02 Super Fun Happy: Japanese Barcodes
• Tue 01 Creative writing courses vs writers’ groups

November 2009

• Mon 30 Meanjin Overland party lowdown
• Mon 30 Subscriberthon
• Mon 30 Class Act: Googie Withers and John McCallum
• Sun 29 The Complex of All of These
• Fri 27 Meanland
• Fri 27 The Pillowbooks
• Thu 26 The Wheeler Centre
• Thu 26 Inaccurate Uses of Fonts in Film
• Wed 25 Well hung?
• Wed 25 Meanjin/Overland Joint Launch and Christmas Party
• Tue 24 Christmas Party Prep
• Tue 24 Inside the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
• Mon 23 Meanjin Archive Goes Digital
• Sun 22 Beware an Editor Spurned
• Fri 20 Melbourne Prize for Literature
• Fri 20 Spike Poll: Post Script and Reader Votes
• Thu 19 Response to Justin Clemens' 'Myth, Abjection, Otherness: Contemporary Australian Art'
• Thu 19 Best Australian Fiction of the 21st Century: #1 Dead Europe
• Wed 18 Money be Green
• Wed 18 AUsome
• Wed 18 Best Australian Fiction of the 21st Century: #2 Carpentaria and True History of the Kelly Gang and
• Tue 17 Best Australian Fiction of the 21st Century: #3 The Turning, The Slap, Gould’s Book of Fish and The Boat
• Mon 16 Spike Poll: The Best Australian Fiction of the 21st Century (so far)
• Sun 15 Jean Kent wins the inaugural Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize!
• Sat 14 Local Lunar Landings
• Fri 13 The problem with censorship: it’s not working
• Thu 12 Wordle
• Thu 12 Submissions now open for Alan Marshall Short Story Award 2010
• Wed 11 Winner of Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize Announced this Saturday at Gleebooks
• Wed 11 Parallel Importation – Productivity Commission’s recommendations rejected by government
• Wed 11 Waxwork
• Tue 10 Rally
• Tue 10 The Journal of Urban Typography
• Mon 09 Where do you write?
• Sun 08 The Typewriter Man
• Fri 06 Doing the Internet Shuffle
• Thu 05 UPDATE: Change of details for Meanjin/Overland Christmas Party
• Thu 05 Immersing the Audience: Sophie Cunningham talks to Robert Connolly
• Wed 04 Type Camp India
• Wed 04 On the street
• Tue 03 A bad bad review
• Mon 02 Cory Doctorow and the Freemium model
• Sun 01 Bookmarking

October 2009

• Sat 31 Letters of note
• Fri 30 Critical Commentary
• Thu 29 Footy: the Season of Love, Faith and Agony
• Wed 28 Information is beautiful
• Tue 27 The Death of the Letter
• Mon 26 Uncommon Press
• Sun 25 Strange Maps
• Fri 23 In Defence of the Second Person
• Thu 22 The Reader
• Thu 22 Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
• Wed 21 Liar Liar, Pants on Fire!
• Wed 21 The Tattoo
• Tue 20 Christmas Party! Already! Aargh!
• Tue 20 Drusilla Modjeska in Conversation with Hilary McPhee
• Tue 20 On Writing and the Day Job
• Mon 19 Creative Writing Courses
• Sat 17 BibliOdyssey
• Fri 16 Do blogs deserve to be put on blurbs?
• Thu 15 The Fall of Rome
• Thu 15 World Matters on this Saturday
• Thu 15 This advert is my biggest undertaking since breakfast
• Wed 14 Notes on Provenance; or, Tom Ross’s Tooth
• Tue 13 Character Auctions: Name May Be Slightly Mutilated
• Mon 12 Re-reading
• Sun 11 Hairy Type & others
• Sat 10 Black-faced racism
• Thu 08 Ethics of Use: Coupland and the Earth Sandwich
• Wed 07 Myth, Abjection, Otherness: Contemporary Australian Art
• Tue 06 So, boys, what's with the headline?
• Tue 06 So how relevant is age to writing anyway?
• Mon 05 Internships: A Rundown
• Sun 04 Public Domain
• Fri 02 Craven vs Cunningham? or Blogs vs Print?
• Fri 02 Fictional Stimulus
• Thu 01 Eight Meanjin Poets Selected for Black Inc.’s Best ofs!
• Thu 01 Spike Comp: Music and Fiction
• Thu 01 COMBO – The Street Comes Alive

September 2009

• Wed 30 Have relationships like rock stars: a Twitter exposé
• Tue 29 And the eagerly awaited* finale to our Introductions Series is...
• Tue 29 Rubrication and Illumination
• Mon 28 A Cool New Journalism?
• Sun 27 Harry Potter Land
• Fri 25 We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this public service announcement
• Fri 25 Micro-patronage 2.0
• Thu 24 Meanjin authors make Best Australian Short Stories 2009!
• Thu 24 Does Anyone Remember The Quinkins?
• Wed 23 Rethinking Literacy
• Tue 22 Vintage Book Labels
• Mon 21 Memory and History: World Matters
• Sun 20 My Take a Skull to Work or School Day
• Sat 19 There is a great need for sarcasm font
• Fri 18 Letter of the day
• Fri 18 Kristel Thornell and Lisa Lang win the Vogel!
• Thu 17 Steampunk fiction
• Wed 16 What books should I buy a 9-year-old girl?
• Tue 15 Inside Letterpress
• Mon 14 Serving Fonts: Typekit
• Sun 13 Dissertation Haikus
• Fri 11 Creators make culture not bureaucracies
• Thu 10 Podcast: Ben Eltham interviews triple j’s Richard Kingsmill
• Thu 10 E-Reader Roundup: From Apples to iLiads
• Wed 09 Snookers, on water management
• Wed 09 Type Fight
• Mon 07 It's been ages since I've gone all lolcat on you
• Mon 07 The Art of Listening
• Sun 06 The Invisible Library
• Sat 05 The Black and White of the Australian Literary Canon
• Fri 04 Speculative Fiction vs Science Fiction
• Thu 03 Spike comp: and the winners are…
• Thu 03 Where to Now? The Future of the Book
• Wed 02 The Olivetti Lettera 22 Typewriter
• Tue 01 Twitter gets all poetic

August 2009

• Mon 31 Where to Workshops?
• Sun 30 Rent Me!
• Sat 29 The house of books
• Fri 28 The Footpath Library
• Thu 27 Alain de Botton and the Terminal
• Wed 26 Spike Comp: Literary Teens
• Wed 26 Did you get it? Literary hoax from the fiction of Don DeLillo
• Tue 25 I love type specimens
• Mon 24 A Journey Round My Skull: Collected Illustrations
• Sun 23 I feel all kind of violated...
• Sat 22 Sydney v. Melbourne v. Brisbane v. Adelaide
• Fri 21 Novelists and Publicity: Where have all the Salingers gone?
• Thu 20 Swindle
• Wed 19 MWF: Killing, Hoaxes and Other People's Stories
• Tue 18 Bali
• Mon 17 The Birds
• Mon 17 The interns are doing it too
• Sat 15 Humorous Erratum
• Thu 13 Hold for applause, fade out
• Thu 13 Literary Rejects
• Wed 12 Graphic Fantastic: Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes
• Mon 10 The Hustle
• Mon 10 Should we write for free?
• Sat 08 Ice-cream is gonna save the day
• Fri 07 Do good blog posts come in small packages?
• Thu 06 We Haz T-Shirt!
• Thu 06 Shy Young Thing
• Wed 05 On Typography: Alphabet Soup
• Tue 04 Mildura Writers' Festival
• Tue 04 Cheep
• Mon 03 Good to see you. Let me see you out
• Sun 02 Lost and Found

July 2009

• Fri 31 Bookstores 2.0
• Thu 30 2009 Man Booker longlist announced
• Wed 29 Literary Ink
• Tue 28 Life as a Dog
• Mon 27 Hunter S. Thompson: What kind of reporter are you anyway, in the bar?
• Sat 25 Video killed the literary star: book trailers
• Fri 24 Electric Literature
• Thu 23 Before MS Excel
• Wed 22 Design: The Art of Bookbinding
• Tue 21 Living through a Revolution
• Mon 20 Are ebooks really better for the environment?
• Sat 18 Atwood and the LongPen
• Fri 17 From blogs to books
• Thu 16 A room of one’s own
• Thu 16 And the winner is….
• Wed 15 The future book industry: barns filled with remainders
• Wed 15 Event-Grammar: The Language Notebooks of William Dawes
• Tue 14 Women can't play music apparently. Who knew?
• Tue 14 Bookslut: Q&A with Jessa Crispin - Guest Post by George Dunford
• Mon 13 Lolcats & political analysis
• Mon 13 Dear Guru: Publishing and Ethical Woes
• Sat 11 Persepolis 2.0
• Fri 10 My Brilliant Career: Writing Full-Time
• Thu 09 Terrible Yellow Eyes
• Wed 08 Spike Comp: The Daily Grind
• Tue 07 Coffee and crumpet
• Mon 06 Long Story Shorts
• Mon 06 Balibo Trailer
• Mon 06 Evolution and Creation: Australia’s Funding Bodies
• Sat 04 Design: The Concept of Shelf
• Fri 03 Spike Comp: And the winner is….
• Fri 03 Who’s reading YA?
• Thu 02 A little after-lunch dancing
• Thu 02 Twitterfail: Let's Have it Out

June 2009

• Tue 30 Where to Cazaly? Pass it to Judd! Guest post by Barry Judd
• Tue 30 Out of Africa
• Mon 29 Archiving 2.0 – Your Local Git Depository
• Sat 27 Mr White, in the Dining Room, with the Pistol
• Fri 26 Stopped?
• Fri 26 Coming Through the Rye – Oh My
• Thu 25 Writing grant applications . . .
• Thu 25 My Beautiful Libraries
• Wed 24 Spike Comp: The Frolic and The Romp
• Tue 23 Thunderbirds Are Go!
• Tue 23 Disgrace - some thoughts
• Mon 22 For the Well-Beloved: Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs
• Sat 20 The Question of Autobiography
• Fri 19 The Living Novel: Your Name Here
• Thu 18 Off topic
• Thu 18 Christos Tsiolkas delivers a punch
• Wed 17 On Design: Singular or Set
• Wed 17 Talking about copyright
• Tue 16 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize, 2009
• Mon 15 The news of yesteryear
• Sat 13 Tougher than a cockroach and smells like a library
• Fri 12 Paper Art
• Thu 11 Holding up the mirror: Windschuttle, me, and the provocateur on trial
• Wed 10 Mouthing off
• Wed 10 On Becoming a Man: Guest Post by David Nichols
• Tue 09 The Australian cover of *The Death of Bunny Munro*
• Mon 08 Murakami Round-up: ichi-kyu-hachi-yon
• Sat 06 The Changing Face of Publishing Relationships
• Fri 05 Literary Bloodsport Part 2: The Lure of the Hatchet Job - Guest Post by James Bradley
• Thu 04 We sang, we sold and drank slurry deep into the night…
• Wed 03 Samson & Delilah - Guest Post by Laura Carroll
• Mon 01 A way with words
• Mon 01 Brack, reduced

May 2009

• Sun 31 On Screen: Books versus Film
• Fri 29 The Outsider in Albert Camus
• Thu 28 And now for a good review . . .
• Thu 28 Authors review their worst reviews
• Tue 26 How young is too young?
• Tue 26 Lairy Fights - Folklorists debate the origins of fairy tales
• Mon 25 Meanjin does Sydney
• Mon 25 June teaser
• Sun 24 HuffPost holds charity auction for internship at $13 000+
• Thu 21 Digital Piracy
• Thu 21 A Tribute to Dorothy Porter
• Wed 20 The darker facts of life
• Wed 20 Graphic Classics
• Tue 19 Queenie
• Tue 19 Superfriends are in da house
• Tue 19 Congratulations Nam Le, Joan London
• Tue 19 Good to see you. Let me see you out
• Mon 18 Pirates
• Sun 17 AL Kennedy on inspiration
• Sat 16 Japanese whispers
• Fri 15 Twitter Lit
• Thu 14 The Right Words
• Wed 13 Paper 2.0
• Mon 11 Football’s History Wars
• Sat 09 My, You Dapper Things – Writers with Style
• Fri 08 Crazy
• Fri 08 Writers who blog and then some
• Thu 07 Book reviews: Making hamburgers out of the beast
• Thu 07 Covers
• Wed 06 Bygone days: Literary ads from the 60s and 70s
• Tue 05 Humour: a post -lolcat analysis by guest blogger Amelia Knowsalot
• Tue 05 RIP Marilyn French
• Mon 04 LIterary Lol
• Fri 01 Dumb journal
• Fri 01 Cover-off: Aust vs UK/US

April 2009

• Thu 30 The classics are not for everyone
• Wed 29 When Facebook Becomes Art
• Tue 28 On the Wire
• Tue 28 Cringe
• Mon 27 Never Never
• Mon 27 Are drugs are better than Monopoly? We would not know.
• Mon 27 Grafica Fildalga
• Sun 26 Daly Waters
• Fri 24 Early editorial musings
• Fri 24 Charlie Quartpot
• Fri 24 Posthumous Publications
• Thu 23 Who's the twit?
• Thu 23 The Great Australian Blovel
• Wed 22 Knowing in advance
• Wed 22 Barbara Campbell/Jane Gleeson White
• Wed 22 Meanjin/Overland Joint sub offer - I'm not going to shut up about this
• Wed 22 Not WWW but WW
• Tue 21 When Hollywood Becomes the Novel
• Tue 21 Bodacious plan from Super Friends: special subscription offer
• Mon 20 Katherine
• Mon 20 J.G. Ballard
• Sun 19 For Tom
• Sun 19 But also, Meanjin has been hot lately
• Sun 19 Meanjin left in the cold
• Sun 19 Who's incoherent?
• Sun 19 Self-publishing in the digital age
• Sun 19 Stephen Fry is Awesome
• Sun 19 Balls

March 2009

• Sat 21 Poetry on Great Days
• Sat 21 The Great American Ghostwriter
• Sat 21 The Sound and the Fury

February 2009

• Tue 17 Adaptations: movie tie-ins
• Thu 12 Our thoughts are with you