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March 2010

• 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