AFL, Secrets and Living Authentically: Danielle Laidley’s groundbreaking 'Don’t Look Away'
Critic and memoirist Sam Elkin joins Rebecca to discuss Danielle Laidley’s unflinching autobiography, Don’t Look Away. A powerful account of a compartmentalised life, this book follows Laidley as she reckons with her gender identity over many decades inside the deeply masculine and heteronormative institution of the AFL.
Read Sam Elkin's essay, "This Secret Valley", here. Get the best of KYD by joining as a member.
Bestselling novelist and literary critic Madeleine Gray joins Rebecca to discuss Beverley Farmer’s Alone, a lyrical, tender, sad exploration of a young woman’s heartbreak, hopelessness and obsession provoked by the ending of a passionate relationship and rejection by her female lover due to the social stigma of 1950s Melbourne.
Read Madeleine Gray's essay, Lesbians and Palimpsests here. Get the best of KYD by joining as a member.
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Introducing: Queer Critics Series
New series from Kill Your Darlings, Australia’s leading independent literary organisation! Australian literature has a queer history. Join author and KYD publishing director Rebecca Starford as she chats with literary critics about the books that have a profound impact on our understanding of LGBTQIA+ experiences, gender and sexuality in Australia. From classic texts to hidden gems, they revisit these works with fresh eyes and uncover their lasting influence.
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Jackie Bailey on ‘The Eulogy’: First Book Club
Editor’s note: This episode contains discussion of death and grief practices.
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey (Hardie Grant), an autofiction novel about family, death and grief that was shortlisted for the 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award.
Our theme song is Broke for Free’s ‘Something Elated’. Sound production by Nial Hosken.
Further reading:
Read Ellen Cregan’s review of The Eulogy in our June Books Roundup.
Read about Jackie’s favourite books and reading habits in this month’s Shelf Reflection.
How To Be Between is available now from your local independent bookseller.
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Jackie Bailey on ‘The Eulogy’: First Book Club
Editor’s note: This episode contains discussion of death and grief practices.
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey (Hardie Grant), an autofiction novel about family, death and grief that was shortlisted for the 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award.
Our theme song is Broke for Free’s ‘Something Elated’. Sound production by Nial Hosken.
Further reading:
Read Ellen Cregan’s review of The Eulogy in our June Books Roundup.
Read about Jackie’s favourite books and reading habits in this month’s Shelf Reflection.
How To Be Between is available now from your local independent bookseller.
(more…)
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