The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin.

www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

I’m sorry

Kate

You need your bookseller hat on when you look at the numbers…

I’m depending on you to be the first to crack the easter egg, Martin

The Angel in the House An experienced senior editor explores the dire state of the publishing industry.

Finally logging in after months for some shameless self-promotion: something about numbers and value, stories and endings, and a lament about an industry not fit for purpose www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...

unsubscribing from 21.7% of marketing emails today, as a treat

Some days in the life of the AR-15 Indignity Vol. 3, No. 183

I read that AR-15 piece and I can’t say that was a good decision so maybe read this instead open.substack.com/pub/indignit...

I love Weike Wang aaww.org/laughing-at-...

Ghost Child In The Woman in Me, Britney Spears asserts the very fact of her existence.

'As Keats taught us about negative capability, as Kierkegaard taught us about paradox, so Britney has been saying, for literally decades, that she dwells in doubt, being neither one thing nor the other — not a girl, not yet a woman...' t.co/iOwREsovCX

I don’t want my children gone, but I am so sick of being a good parent After decades raising her children, Tegan Bennett Daylight needs a rest. As her youngest finishes school, she reflects that the children are beautiful - but they are also dickheads

‘You learned to see life for what it really is. It is so brief. It is uncontrollable. It can’t be saved if it is going to be lost. Sunlight has to be seen as a gift, like food.’

unreasonable for things to be both my job and my prob

triangle girl dinner

i would follow fran drescher into battle

coming up to 20 years of saying ‘the university of YOU SUCK’ in incompatible contexts https://catandgirl.com/cat-rights-his-reads/