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Sep 15, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Caroline Zielinski
Meet The Women Making Thousands From Their WardrobesRead the full interview with writer, journalist and critic Neha Kale at PRIMER.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading
One of my favourite moments reading a novel is when, perhaps only a few chapters in, you get the distinct feeling that you are in capable hands. You trust the author. The prose is exquisite. You feel heady. It’s a little like falling in love.
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May 31, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading
Jessie Tu is the author of the novel A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing. She is a journalist at Women’s Agenda and a book critic for the SMH and The Age. She is also about to release her sophomore novel The Honeyeaters and we think you’re going to love it (we did). We caught up with Jessie to find out about the books that mean the most to her. Describe your upcoming novel The Honeyeaters in one sentence.
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May 31, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Kylie Morris |Laura Brading
As the saying goes, it’s the cover-up, not the crime. And so it has fallen for US President Donald Trump, found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his ascent to the White House. He likes the phrase, America First. Fitting, perhaps, given he is now America’s First Felon President.
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May 16, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading
When I heard Neha Kale speak at the All About Women festival earlier this year—on a panel discussing the sad girl novel—I had that specific book-nerd urge to ask her about her favourite books and writers and the stories that mean the most to her. And so, a few weeks later, it was a pleasure to sit down with the writer, journalist and critic and do exactly that. A book you recommend to everyone. “Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is the perfect novel.
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May 10, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading
One of my favourite moments reading a novel is when, perhaps only a few chapters in, you get the distinct feeling that you are in capable hands. You trust the author. The prose is exquisite. You feel heady. It’s a little like falling in love. If the respective novel happens to be more than 400 pages long spanninag generations and offering a bonus history lesson, then this feels especially exciting. You are falling hard. I fell for Pachinko this way.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Caroline Zielinski
Bestselling author Bri Lee rose to prominence with her non-fiction books Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart. The books respectively explored sexual abuse, the beauty industry and the elite education system, each paying particular attention to power, sex, gender and class. And it’s these same preoccupations that are at the heart of Lee’s debut novel The Work, as well as art, love, labour and privilege.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Caroline Zielinski
My biological mother passed away from cancer when I was four. Fifteen years later, I discovered my birth-mother’s diary in a box of her old things. It was written in 1995, the year I was born. With wide and curly handwriting my mother spoke to me from beyond the grave. She would address me in true Western Sydney fashion as ‘Little Bib’, which was short for ‘Little Habib’. I realised that my birth-mother, Mafile’o Theresa Helen Dunn, was a writer from the hood who never got to share her story.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading
Since summer seems to be everlasting, buying another pair of sandals seems fitting. I love this patent look from affordable accessories brand Charles & Keith. These should be able to take you into Autumn, even when the temperature eventually does drop. - Tara, stylist
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Caroline Zielinski
For some, weekends are all about deep cleaning and filling the social calendar so not a minute is spent alone. For others, it's a golden opportunity to watch an obscene amount of TV. If you fall into the latter camp, this story is for you. So, go on, throw on your comfy pants, stock up on snacks and take a look at the most bingeable shows of the year...
