Join us for the Sydney launch of EXCLUSIVE! Dispatches from The Paris End, an anthology from the popular longform email newsletter The Paris End, in which three young writers together explore the cultural mores, highlights and backwaters of contemporary Melbourne.

Co-founders Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz will be at Hotel Hollywood on the first Saturday of December along with house cartoonist Aaron Billings for an evening of readings, chats and celebration. SRB editor James Jiang and essayist and researcher Eda Gunaydin are the event’s special guests, with each to read an original short piece of reportage they wrote exclusively (!) for the launch.

This event is free, but RSVP is essential as space is limited.

We hope to see you there!

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EXCLUSIVE! Dispatches from The Paris End

A few years ago, Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz sat down for a beer at a Melbourne pub and decided to start a newsletter. It would be called The Paris End, after the aspirationally cosmopolitan (yet persistently grotty) hilltop at the eastern end of Melbourne’s city centre. It would seek to make much of a striving metropolis. It would publish hyperlocal, irreverent, long-form literary journalism – a dirty martini and a good gossip in email form.

EXCLUSIVE! brings together a selection of nineteen lively essays from the first years of The Paris End, each illustrated by house cartoonist, Aaron Billings. Hurst, Olds and Schwartz take you into corset-making studios, art fairs, micro-dairies, apartment developments, university pubs, biohacking spas, court rooms, and the musty offices of the city’s Lacanian psychoanalysts. They ask urgent questions, such as: Can the male lesbian speak? Would you want to live forever if you had to live in Docklands? How does one emulate Frank Moorhouse’s financial ability to stay fed with caviar, and watered with champagne?

In this anthology, three distinct voices collaborate to mythologise a time and place, making Melbourne feel as worthy of attention as London, New York or Berlin.

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Art by Aaron Billings / @dillings

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