elle-zo said about 1 year ago or at 11:44PM on Monday, July 9 2007.
does anyone else read this? I have bought the past few issues and read them cover to cover. the Richard Flanagan piece on logging in Tasmania a couple of issues back blew my mind.
there is a really interesting piece on the socio-political landscape in Australia in the current 'Wendi Deng' issue by somebody called Clive Hamilton that I also found enlightening (esp. as I have not lived in Oz for the majority of the Howard years).
Robert Forster usually writes the music reviews.
I wrote for a ''Monthly Magazine'' for a while.
Fuckers never checked the name first. Then it all collapsed.
I subscribe.
Sometimes they have killer articles, and at other times they have lame ass ones. Some of their attempts at doing New Yorker like essays on Australian Politics are pretty thin.
Like it. The Wendi Deng article was fascinating; also liked Chloe Hooper's article about the Young Liberals a while back. Robert Forster wrote a lovely tribute to Grant after he died.
The Wendi Deng article was good, but I don't know what the fuss was all about.
You mean you don't understand why anyone would be interested in her?
No, the piece was commissioned by Fairfax, but was pulled (many people believe at the behest of Sir Rupert). It wasn't a huge expose of her or anything, she just seemed ambitious. Not crazy or anything. There was little in there people would be too surprised about.
Mind you, all the confidentiality documents etc. etc. they get people to sign are the real story.
I didn't expect an expose, it's just that before I read that article she hadn't even seemed like a person. I literally had no idea what she was like.
The stuff about her hooking up with the father of the American family she lived with as a student was reasonably sordid, actually.
It was sordid, but not particularly unusual. I like how it basically said she is now in charge of nothing really.
think its improved somewhat since its got over the election and its fall out, the history article in feb was good.
new ones tomorrow, not sure about the heath ledger essay, but ill probably wait and see.
im sure there was another thread about this, but i'm guessing it got munched in the great pre-christmas purge of 07
got it (and lost it, and found it again, and finally read it)
robert manne's essay about the culture wars and its relation to the aboriginal apology is pretty good, as he was smack bang in the middle of it for a lot of the time.
the cover story about the bulletin is worth it for the insight it gives about kerry packer, and the magazine empire (and the mags demise)
Yeah, that Bulletin article was fascinating.
I'm thinking of subscribing to the mag because I've been buying it every month for the last six months. An online subscription gives you access to back issues online too... but I like reading the physical magazine and I like getting stuff in the mail...
yeah, looking for similar reasons, think i'll go with the post version as well, easier to read on trains, or away from things.
The history article a couple months ago was good, as was the Forster defence of the Monkees...
Bully story was pretty good. Leaned heavily on Paul Barry's Packer bio, so if you liked the yarn you'll probably enjoy the book.
don't think i care about packer that much..
forster's article on the bdo felt like a waste of space.
the ledger retrospective wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be, and the longer book reviews are usually worthy of the time spent (the don watson one sounds interesting)
I didn't read the Ledger story. Too much coverage already, I'm full thanks. Looked like a wank too.
The Packer book is a great read, even if you don't care about Packer. Great stories of the olden days of press, complete with fisticuffs between proprietors.
The Ledger thing was actually OK. Much better than this rubbish in Esquire that someone emailed me.
I also liked the Forster BDO article. I think he quite effectively captured that festival feeling of wandering around, being there but not really being a part of it. And I liked the contrast of him going from participant to punter.
I heard about that Esquire story, don't feel the need to actually read it though.
Skimming was more than enough.
new issue is out today, patrick white the lead, also things on the illegal pseudoephedrine trade and the csiro diet.
somewhat more excitingly, the website has the bulletin essay and the history of australia essay (and the heath ledger one) of the last couple of months for free.
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Opera is associated in my mind with a smug high-brow elite, it has very stringent class associations. Certainly wouldn't be in favour of running it into the ground but funding for more modern, vital - heck even more 'popular' - forms of art and performance would be ideal to me.
gideons back in the age regarding opera australia
story's picked up, its news again!
So there you go, The Monthly = agenda setter, now that the Bulletin is gone.
Now you know why people pour cash down the drain starting media organisations.
couple more letters on the oa stuff on the monthly site
fite fite fite!
on a tangent, this comes out friday
think theres a tv special on abc or sbs soon?
How do you think it will go? I'm struggling to see who the market is supposed to be, but then again it shifts mondo units in the UK.
Also, there's an Australian version of The Spectator on the way under the editorship of Dame Edna's son. That should be, er, interesting.
I thought the Spectator was already a couple of issues old here? I haven't bothered to pick it up yet, obviously.
I don't know how it would last here. Seems a bit... weird. Successfully launching any mags in this market is pretty difficult at the best of times, but I would've thought the point of reading the Spectator was for the foreign content, not so much the local stuff.
Unless, of course, they're going to just regurgitate OS copy. (You know, like the SMH tends to do with Guardian stuff.)
Also, there's an Australian version of The Spectator on the way under the editorship of Dame Edna's son. That should be, er, interesting.
Why do people keep encouraging Oscar Humphries? What is the deal? Have they read his stuff? Who likes him? What a joke
i like the Monthly.
Who's behind The Week Magazine?
felix dennis with Salter, the original Media Report producer editing it.
i bought the last monthly but threw it out before reading it.
David Salter wrote me the nicest 'fuck off, we don't have a job for you, but thanks for asking' letter I've ever received.
angry ex bulletin readers? (copy gets burnt and spread over kerry's grave each week?)
I'm curious, and will give it a go, wonder how its going to place itself, but while it wont' have the support of packer, it probably won't have the ingrained workplace of packer so may run a leaner ship. I'm thinking more news-ish then the monthly, but more indepth then a paper.
i got a copy of the week, launch price is only $2.
haven't given it a good read yet, but its on slick paper!
has a extract of the tim winton monthly article from last month.
will give it a look and either start a new thread or continue here.
only $2! will check it out then
$5 normally.
quick look has it pretty much has it as a mag summarizing lots of other papers/articles. its like a blog aggregator in paper form? (don't quote me on that)
mungo mccallums doing the crossword.
You thought they needed a ''drunk cycling after dark'' correspondent?
robert forster hair care article! (bizarro)
the don watson piece is not too shabby.
and barry o'farrell sounds human and decent
Manne piece on Rudd was OK, but a bit premature. Sounded like Manne was trying to justify his initial support for Rudd, even though Rudd hasn't done anything substantive yet.