Kill Your Boomers
Keira lives in a hellhole Newtown share house with two friends, is barely scraping by as a nanny for a rich, vacuous Double Bay woman while trying to make a
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Twice as nice or double the trouble?
Evelyn Waugh is credited with saying “I never can understand how two men can write a book together. To me, that’s like three people getting together to have a baby.”
If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies
If you haven’t used AI yet, you’re in a minority – it’s coming for us all. To most, that just means it’s going to change the way we work. But
Departure(s)
If you’re not aware of Julian Barnes’ work, just look at the list of accolades on his Wikipedia page, from a 2011 Man Booker Prize win on down. He starts
The Bigger Picture
We’re seeing a lot of the same elements in Hollywood memoirs recently, particularly ones where proximity to something popular is enough to justify publication, even from someone not very well
The Uncool
Cameron Crowe is more acknowledged as a filmmaker these days, best known for his autobiographical 2000 comedy drama Almost Famous, which was inspired directly from his start in music journalism.
W*nkernomics
This is a curious missive. In one way it feels about 30 years too late – it was back in the 90s when managementese and corporate doublespeak really started to
The Peak
After a career as a trade envoy and lobbyist across Asia, author Sam Guthrie is perfectly positioned to bring the business and diplomatic ties between Australia and China to life
A Different Kind of Power
On the surface, former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s memoir is a conventional autobiography – beginning with her childhood in an economically downtrodden town in the rural Bay of Plenty
Careless People
New Zealand-born former diplomat Wynn-Williams knew she wanted to make a difference in the world, and when she saw how much potential positive influence Facebook had in its early days,