The Lifted Brow
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The Lifted Brow is a bimonthly Australian magazine that originated in Brisbane and is now produced from Melbourne..
Primarily a literary journal, it also publishes art, comics, and music; it has been considered "uncategorisable". It has been noted for publishing emerging and established Australian authors, such as Christos Tsiolkas
and Frank Moorhouse
, alongside international authors including Neil Gaiman
, Douglas Coupland
, Heidi Julavits
, Rick Moody
, and David Foster Wallace
. Regular contributors include Spencer Krug
, Eddie Campbell
, Alice Pung
, Jez Burrows, and Leesa Wockner.
Designed to look like a literary journal from the past, The Lifted Brow was launched at The Troubadour by musical acts Ambitious Lovers, Shakes, Marlinchen, and Blendher. Featured authors of fiction included Anna Pearson, Chris Somerville, Rory Killen, Ben Spencer, Amy Thomas, and Cameron Murphy. Interviewees included Eddie Campbell
, Animal Collective
and Naomi Shihab Nye
. Contributing artists were Bad Teeth, Plump Oyster and Mel Stringer.
The second issue published work with an increased focus on Brisbane, as well as new work by Dean Bakopoulos and Tao Lin
. It included a CD documenting Brisbane's indie scene as at late 2007, with contributions from BigStrongBrute, Shiver Like Timber, Joel Saunders, Rialto Decibel Choir, The Night Crash, To the North, and many others.
The fourth issue of The Lifted Brow features stories, songs, and comics based on the 103 titles in a "fake bookshelf". Contributors include Karen Russell
, Adam Thirlwell
, Joe Meno
, Robert Olen Butler
, Jeffrey Brown
, Clancy Martin
and Deb Olin Unferth
, Daniel Handler
and Lisa Brown
, Carey Mercer
and Sydney Vermont, Jim Shepard
, Sam Lipsyte
, Heidi Julavits
, Spencer Krug
, Chris Bachelder
, Jonathan Meiburg
, Rick Moody
, The Panda Band
, No Kids
, The Lucksmiths
, Neil Gaiman
, Dan Deacon
, Thee More Shallows
, Rock Plaza Central
, Spiral Stairs, Frightened Rabbit
, The Wrens
, and The Capstan Shafts
.
The fifth issue included fiction by Robert Shearman, Glen David Gold
, Scarlett Thomas
, Blake Butler
and Justin Taylor
, nonfiction by Tom Bissell
and Michael Hearst
, poetry by Tao Lin
, comics by Mandy Ord
, and illustrations by James Gurney
and Renee French
. Additionally, it included an audio recording of a "post-apocalyptic love story, told in eighty minutes of strict rhyming couplets" by Brisbane writer Thomas Benjamin Guerney, which Daniel Handler
blurbed as "an epic of heartbreak and awesomeness".
The sixth issue of The Lifted Brow purports to be an atlas
, featuring stories, songs, comics, art, and limericks based on the 246 countries of the world. Contributors include Reif Larsen
, Dylan Horrocks, Darren Hanlon
, Douglas Coupland
, Jincy Willett
, Christine Schutt
, Benjamin Kunkel
, Seripop
, Victor Kerlow, Christos Tsiolkas
, Kevin Brockmeier
, David Heatley
, My Pal Foot Foot
, Because of Ghosts
, Bodies of Water
, Eddy Current Suppression Ring
, Clue to Kalo
, Aidan Moffat
, The Cannanes
, and Indian Jewelry
. Additionally, it includes an unseen excerpt from David Foster Wallace
's unfinished novel, The Pale King
.
, Johannes Jakob, Chris Somerville, Chris Currie, Dolan Morgan, AS Patric, Kim Chinquee, Leesa Wockner, Mike Meginnis, AE Reiff, Paul Murdock, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Zachary German, Krissy Kneen, Joel Van Noord, Gabe Durham, David Finig, Jensen Beach, Sam Pink, Matt Furie, Howell Golson, Alexi Keywan, Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Lisa Brown, Bernard Caleo, Eirian Chapman, Josh Cotter, Jo Dery, Phil Elverum, Michael P Fikaris, Lisa Hanawalt, John Hankiewicz, Sarah Howell, Lee May, Scot Nobles, Woodley Nye, Ron Rege Jr, Seripop, Mel Stringer, Jo Waite, Kirsten Reed, and C.F.
, Ben Constantine, Michael P Fikaris, Noel Freibert, Helen Garner, Howell Golson, Lisa Hanawalt, Michelle Law, Andrew Leland, Tao Lin
, James Mcculloch, Lane Milburn, Nick Modrzewski, Liam Pieper, Alice Pung
, Ron Rege Jr, Ronnie Scott, Asher Treleaven, Lorelei Vashti, Bryan Whalen, Leesa Wockner.
Cody Hoyt, Luke Ryan, Mark Chu, Sam Cooney, Chris Currie, Blake Butler
, Alice Pung
, Leesa Wockner, Patrick Clelland, Microbiology, Anna Barnes, Noel Freibert, Eddie Campbell
, Ben Sea, Mandy Ord
, Benjamin Marra, James Mcculloch
, Spencer Krug
, Chris Somerville at the Gold Coast Military Museum, Anna Krien, Jess McGuire, Megan Washington
, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Ryan Boudinot, Brandon Hobson, Phil Estes
, Matthew Dexter, Lane Milburn, Liberty Browne, and Emma Hewitt
.
Primarily a literary journal, it also publishes art, comics, and music; it has been considered "uncategorisable". It has been noted for publishing emerging and established Australian authors, such as Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
and Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....
, alongside international authors including Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
, Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits
Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly...
, Rick Moody
Rick Moody
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...
, and David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
. Regular contributors include Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug is a Canadian musician. He is currently the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the indie rock bands Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. He has also performed with other Canadian bands including Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven, and ska band the Two Tonne Bowlers, playing various...
, Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
, Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Alice Pung is a writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.She is a practicing solicitor, and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at at Janet Clarke Hall,...
, Jez Burrows, and Leesa Wockner.
Issue 1
January 19 2007Designed to look like a literary journal from the past, The Lifted Brow was launched at The Troubadour by musical acts Ambitious Lovers, Shakes, Marlinchen, and Blendher. Featured authors of fiction included Anna Pearson, Chris Somerville, Rory Killen, Ben Spencer, Amy Thomas, and Cameron Murphy. Interviewees included Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
, Animal Collective
Animal Collective
Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
and Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home.-Career:...
. Contributing artists were Bad Teeth, Plump Oyster and Mel Stringer.
Issue 2
September 19 2007The second issue published work with an increased focus on Brisbane, as well as new work by Dean Bakopoulos and Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tao Lin is an American writer. He was born of Taiwanese parents and grew up on the East Coast of the USA.He is the author of two novels, Eeeee Eee Eeee and Richard Yates ; a novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel ; a short story collection, Bed ; and two poetry collections, you are a little...
. It included a CD documenting Brisbane's indie scene as at late 2007, with contributions from BigStrongBrute, Shiver Like Timber, Joel Saunders, Rialto Decibel Choir, The Night Crash, To the North, and many others.
Issue 4
January 2009The fourth issue of The Lifted Brow features stories, songs, and comics based on the 103 titles in a "fake bookshelf". Contributors include Karen Russell
Karen Russell
Karen Russell is a Seattle attorney, television pundit, and political strategist, and a graduate of Mercer Island High School, Georgetown University and Harvard Law School...
, Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. He also writes a column for Esquire magazine....
, Joe Meno
Joe Meno
Joe Meno is a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago.-Biography:After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art therapy teacher at a juvenile detention center...
, Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.-Early life:...
, Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...
, Clancy Martin
Clancy Martin
Clancy W. Martin is a Canadian philosopher, essayist, translator and novelist. His debut novel How to Sell was a Times Literary Supplement "Best Book of 2009" , and a "Best Book of 2009" for The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, The Kansas City Star.-Works:*Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A...
and Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt.Her...
, Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.-Personal life:...
and Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown
Harley Brown is an American actress, born in Kansas City, Missouri.She is best known as half of the supercouple Quint and Nola, playing alongside actor Michael Tylo, on Guiding Light. She played the role of Nola Reardon Chamberlain from 1980 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 1998...
, Carey Mercer
Carey Mercer
Carey Mercer is a Canadian musician and English teacher best known for his work as lead singer of the indie rock band Frog Eyes and his work in Swan Lake. He has an additional solo project called Blackout Beach. Once, when on tour with Sum 41 , Mercer fell off stage and bruised his tailbone at a...
and Sydney Vermont, Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams...
, Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...
, Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits
Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly...
, Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug is a Canadian musician. He is currently the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the indie rock bands Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. He has also performed with other Canadian bands including Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven, and ska band the Two Tonne Bowlers, playing various...
, Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia...
, Jonathan Meiburg
Jonathan Meiburg
Jonathan Meiburg, born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1st, 1976, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and the lead singer and songwriter for Shearwater , a band he co-founded with Will Sheff in Austin, Texas. He also shared duties with Sheff as a member of Okkervil River...
, Rick Moody
Rick Moody
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...
, The Panda Band
The Panda Band
The Panda Band are an indie pop band originating from Perth, Western Australia. They have a reputation for combining numerous musical genres. They have toured nationally as support acts for bands such as The Sleepy Jackson, Little Birdy, The Grates and Evermore.-Biography:The band originally...
, No Kids
No Kids
No Kids is a Canadian indie pop band. Based in Vancouver, the band was formed by Justin Kellam, Julia Chirka and Nick Krgovich following the departure of Larissa Loyva from their earlier band P:ano....
, The Lucksmiths
The Lucksmiths
The Lucksmiths were an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia known for witty, intelligent lyrics, a strong melodic sense and a jangly pop sound harkening back to early-80's bands such as The Smiths and The Go-Betweens.-History:...
, Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...
, Thee More Shallows
Thee More Shallows
Thee More Shallows are a three-piece San Francisco based experimental indie rock band formed in 2001, consisting of song-writer Dee Kesler, Chavo Fraser and Jason Gonzales...
, Rock Plaza Central
Rock Plaza Central
Rock Plaza Central is a Canadian indie rock band. After a pair of glowing reviews from the influential music website Pitchfork Media, they have come to prominence as a major indie rock band...
, Spiral Stairs, Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit are a Scottish indie rock band from Selkirk, formed in 2003. The lineup consists of lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and lyricist Scott Hutchison, guitarist and bassist Billy Kennedy, guitarist Andy Monaghan, drummer Grant Hutchison and guitarist and keyboardist Gordon Skene...
, The Wrens
The Wrens
The Wrens are an indie rock band that formed in the late 1980s in New Jersey. The group consists of Charles Bissell, Greg Whelan, Kevin Whelan, and Jerry MacDonald. Their debut album Silver was released in 1994...
, and The Capstan Shafts
The Capstan Shafts
The Capstan Shafts is the musical project of American lo-fi artist Dean Wells. He has been releasing material under the Capstan Shafts name since 1999, through various indie labels such as Yellow Mica, Asaurus and Abandoned Love Records...
.
Issue 5
August 2009The fifth issue included fiction by Robert Shearman, Glen David Gold
Glen David Gold
Glen David Gold is known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil, a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter , an American illusionist performing from c.1900-1936 and Sunnyside. He writes in a narrative style, and the book was hailed as a very respectable venture into historical fiction...
, Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas, born 1972 in Hammersmith, is an English author. She has written eight novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.-Biography:...
, Blake Butler
Blake Butler (author)
-Books:Butler is the author of the novella Ever, released in January 2009 by Calamari Press, and the novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, from Featherproof Books. His book There Is No Year was published in 2011.-Commentary on his works:...
and Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor is a fictional character from the American/Canadian Showtime television series Queer as Folk, a drama about the lives of a group of gay men and women living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
, nonfiction by Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell is a journalist, critic, and fiction writer, originally from Escanaba, Michigan and currently based in Portland, Oregon.-Life:...
and Michael Hearst
Michael Hearst
Michael Marcus Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. His musical instruments include claviola, theremin, guitar, piano, drums and bass...
, poetry by Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tao Lin is an American writer. He was born of Taiwanese parents and grew up on the East Coast of the USA.He is the author of two novels, Eeeee Eee Eeee and Richard Yates ; a novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel ; a short story collection, Bed ; and two poetry collections, you are a little...
, comics by Mandy Ord
Mandy Ord
Mandy Ord is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Australian Rationalist magazine, Voiceworks, Tango, Going Down Swinging and Red Leaves / 紅葉. Since 2009 Ord has also had a regular comic strip published in Trouble ...
, and illustrations by James Gurney
James Gurney
James Gurney is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs...
and Renee French
Renée French
Renée French is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author.Her work includes The Soap Lady , The Ticking , and Micrographica , "Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio - Exploratory...
. Additionally, it included an audio recording of a "post-apocalyptic love story, told in eighty minutes of strict rhyming couplets" by Brisbane writer Thomas Benjamin Guerney, which Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.-Personal life:...
blurbed as "an epic of heartbreak and awesomeness".
Issue 6
January 2010The sixth issue of The Lifted Brow purports to be an atlas
Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats...
, featuring stories, songs, comics, art, and limericks based on the 246 countries of the world. Contributors include Reif Larsen
Reif Larsen
Reif Larsen is an American author, best known for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.Larsen graduated from Milton Academy in 1998 and then went on to Brown University and Columbia University. He holds an M.F.A in fiction. He has also made films in the United States, the United Kingdom and the...
, Dylan Horrocks, Darren Hanlon
Darren Hanlon
Darren Hanlon is an Australian singer/songwriter who plays urban folk music. He has released five solo albums, three EPs and eight singles on Candle Records and Flippin Yeah industries , as well as several compilation tracks...
, Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
, Jincy Willett
Jincy Willett
Jincy Willett is an author and writing teacher currently living in San Diego, California. She has written short pieces for various anthologies and periodicals including the Winter 2006 issue of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules...
, Christine Schutt
Christine Schutt
Christine Schutt is an American novelist. Schutt received her BA and MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MFA from Columbia University...
, Benjamin Kunkel
Benjamin Kunkel
Benjamin Kunkel is an American novelist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His first novel, Indecision, was published in 2005.-Background and education:...
, Seripop
Seripop
Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau work together under the Seripop name to design album covers, prints, books and illustrations. Seripop is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They won the 2007 Juno Award for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year for designing the cover of The Looks album by MSTRKRFT.The...
, Victor Kerlow, Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
, Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin John Brockmeier is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels...
, David Heatley
David Heatley
David Heatley is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer and musician.- Education :Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Heatley graduated from Teaneck High School in 1993. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000.-Comics:Though he studied painting and filmmaking at Oberlin,...
, My Pal Foot Foot
My Pal Foot Foot
"My Pal Foot Foot" is a song by the Shaggs, appearing on their 1969 release, Philosophy of the World. It is their best-known song. The lyrics revolve around a rather nonsensical journey to find "Foot Foot", their cat, who has run away. As with many of the Shaggs' songs, the lyrics are childlike...
, Because of Ghosts
Because of Ghosts
Because of Ghosts is a three-piece post-rock band based in Melbourne, AustraliaThey are often compared to bands such as Dirty Three or Godspeed You! Black Emperor....
, Bodies of Water
Bodies of Water
Bodies of Water is a band from the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, signed to independent record label Secretly Canadian. The core group consists of married couple David and Meredith Metcalf. However, the band often plays LA shows with five or more additional musicians, such...
, Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eddy Current Suppression Ring is a Melbourne-based Australian rock group which rose to prominence in 2008.-Biography:The band formed in 2003 when several band members started jamming at the Christmas party at a vinyl pressing plant where they worked. They encouraged now-lead singer Brendan...
, Clue to Kalo
Clue to Kalo
Clue to Kalo is a Folktronica band from Adelaide, South Australia, featuring Mark Mitchell and a revolving cast of supporting musicians. Clue To Kalo’s initial commercial success came in the US through LA-based Mush Records....
, Aidan Moffat
Aidan Moffat
Aidan John Moffat is a Scottish vocalist and musician, best known for his work with Malcolm Middleton in Arab Strap.-Early life:...
, The Cannanes
The Cannanes
The Cannanes are a longstanding Australian indie pop band formed in Sydney in late 1984.-History:The original line-up of the band was Stephen O'Neil , Annabel Bleach , Michelle Cannane , Frances Gibson , and David Nichols...
, and Indian Jewelry
Indian jewelry
Indian Jewelry is a band from Houston, Texas that is known for its droning vision music and seizure-inducing stage show. Since forming in 2002 the band has gone through several touring incarnations as Hong Kong, the Turquoise Diamonds, BENZENE LOTION RASH, the Corpses of Waco, Electric Fuck All,...
. Additionally, it includes an unseen excerpt from David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
's unfinished novel, The Pale King
The Pale King
The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. After Wallace's death in September 2008, a manuscript and associated computer files were found by his widow, Karen Green, and his agent, Bonnie Nadell. That material was compiled by his friend...
.
Issue 7
Blake Butler, Diane Williams, Diane Williams, Rob Shearman, Nick Modrzewski, Michaela McGuire, Phil Estes, Arthur S Halsey Jr, Bryce Wolfgang Joiner, Matt Bell, Bryan Whalen, Kate Cantrell, Tim McGuire, Ryan Call, Shane Jesse Christmass, Blake Kimzey, Jimmy Chen, Kate McIntyre, Dan Moreau, Brian Evenson, Dan Piepenbring, Frank MoorhouseFrank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....
, Johannes Jakob, Chris Somerville, Chris Currie, Dolan Morgan, AS Patric, Kim Chinquee, Leesa Wockner, Mike Meginnis, AE Reiff, Paul Murdock, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Zachary German, Krissy Kneen, Joel Van Noord, Gabe Durham, David Finig, Jensen Beach, Sam Pink, Matt Furie, Howell Golson, Alexi Keywan, Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Lisa Brown, Bernard Caleo, Eirian Chapman, Josh Cotter, Jo Dery, Phil Elverum, Michael P Fikaris, Lisa Hanawalt, John Hankiewicz, Sarah Howell, Lee May, Scot Nobles, Woodley Nye, Ron Rege Jr, Seripop, Mel Stringer, Jo Waite, Kirsten Reed, and C.F.
Issue 8
Jez Burrows, Eddie CampbellEddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
, Ben Constantine, Michael P Fikaris, Noel Freibert, Helen Garner, Howell Golson, Lisa Hanawalt, Michelle Law, Andrew Leland, Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tao Lin is an American writer. He was born of Taiwanese parents and grew up on the East Coast of the USA.He is the author of two novels, Eeeee Eee Eeee and Richard Yates ; a novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel ; a short story collection, Bed ; and two poetry collections, you are a little...
, James Mcculloch, Lane Milburn, Nick Modrzewski, Liam Pieper, Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Alice Pung is a writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.She is a practicing solicitor, and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at at Janet Clarke Hall,...
, Ron Rege Jr, Ronnie Scott, Asher Treleaven, Lorelei Vashti, Bryan Whalen, Leesa Wockner.
Issue 9
April 2011Cody Hoyt, Luke Ryan, Mark Chu, Sam Cooney, Chris Currie, Blake Butler
Blake Butler
Blake Butler was a British actor best known for his regular role as Mr. Wainright during the first three series of Last of the Summer Wine between 1973 and 1976...
, Alice Pung
Alice Pung
Alice Pung is a writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.She is a practicing solicitor, and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at at Janet Clarke Hall,...
, Leesa Wockner, Patrick Clelland, Microbiology, Anna Barnes, Noel Freibert, Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
, Ben Sea, Mandy Ord
Mandy Ord
Mandy Ord is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Australian Rationalist magazine, Voiceworks, Tango, Going Down Swinging and Red Leaves / 紅葉. Since 2009 Ord has also had a regular comic strip published in Trouble ...
, Benjamin Marra, James Mcculloch
James McCulloch
James McCulloch is also the name of the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second National Bank of the United States. This James McCulloch was not involved in the McCulloch vs. Maryland U.S. Supreme Court case....
, Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug is a Canadian musician. He is currently the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the indie rock bands Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. He has also performed with other Canadian bands including Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven, and ska band the Two Tonne Bowlers, playing various...
, Chris Somerville at the Gold Coast Military Museum, Anna Krien, Jess McGuire, Megan Washington
Megan Washington
-Studio albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:-External links:* *...
, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Ryan Boudinot, Brandon Hobson, Phil Estes
Phil Estes
Philip Estes is head football coach at Brown University. He has compiled a 78-50 record since 1998. That makes Coach Estes the winningest coach at Brown University since the inception of the Ivy League in 1956...
, Matthew Dexter, Lane Milburn, Liberty Browne, and Emma Hewitt
Emma Hewitt
Emma Louise Hewitt is a singer-songwriter and trance vocalist who lives in Amsterdam.- Biography :Although Emma Hewitt had a musical background in rock music, she released her debut single in 2007 in the field of progressive house. "Carry Me Away" was a collaboration with British DJ Chris Lake...
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External links
- The Lifted Brow web site
- HTML Giant interview
- ThreeThousand interview
- Review of Issue 7 on CrikeyCrikeyCrikey is an independent Australian electronic magazine comprising an open access website and an email newsletter available to subscribers. Well known in Australian political, media and business circles, Crikey was described by former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular...