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YouTube killed them. But the live album was once a carefully curated work of art.

The live album is dead. But their charms last forever

YouTube killed them. But the live album was once a carefully curated work of art.

  • David Free

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No one is writing stories designed to make people laugh any more.

Where have all the funny novels gone?

No one is writing stories designed to make people laugh any more. (Um, except me?)

  • Nick Bhasin
Group fitness: the term is a combination of two of my least favourite things.

I signed up for a one-way ticket to hell and (somehow) came out transformed

Group fitness: the term is a combination of two of my least favourite things.

  • James Colley
The act of talking about people when they’re not in the room deserves a positive rebrand.

Gossiping isn’t evil, it’s our feminine duty

The art of talking about people when they’re not in the room deserves a positive rebrand.

  • Eliza Reilly
I made my flower bed, I’ll lie in it.

Building a flower bed: how hard can it be?

I made my flower bed, I’ll lie in it.

  • James Colley
Taylor Swift in 2009.

I saw Taylor Swift on her first Australian tour. Here’s what happened

In March 2009, I saw Taylor Swift perform to a few hundred cowboys and cowgirls in Marrickville.

  • Robert Moran
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Andrey Rublev: a poor excuse for a tennis bad boy, but we’ll take it.

The Australian Open is over, and now I have the post-tennis blues

The real new year doesn’t begin until the Australian Open ends. But it’s time to get back to real life.

  • David Free
Who put all this junk in my home?

In the midst of moving home, I suddenly understood minimalism

Who put all this junk in my house? It couldn’t have been me.

  • James Colley
I’m giving the internet’s insatiable lust for ratings and reviews zero stars.

The most annoying words online: ‘We’d like to hear from you. How did we go?’

The internet’s insatiable lust for ratings and reviews gets zero stars.

  • David Free
Martin Amis in 2014.

How does it feel to read your favourite living writer after they die?

I didn’t want it to feel any different, but I feared it was going to.

  • David Free

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