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25.01.2022 Todays reading coming to you live from the past is by the incredible, the inimitable, the inexorable, Helen Razer ladies and gentlemen!

24.01.2022 Remember when libraries were full of books? An update on the liquidisation of Fisher Library, University of Sydney, by Huon Curtis.

23.01.2022 Who doesnt want a job at a company that lives and breathes their DNA? I mean, thats something you can really stand for.

23.01.2022 Nice job Alice Grundy.

22.01.2022 As Tom Waits said, whats he building in there? Well hes building a magazine of course, and he needs your dollaroos to do it! Chuck The Lifted Brow a few coins and bags yourself a copy of the finished product.

22.01.2022 This is awesome. Issue 6 contributor Sam Wallman teams up with Senthorun Raj and ABC Radio National. Five thumbs up.

20.01.2022 Dan Stacey at Daily Life takes our investigation of the liquidisation of university libraries to the next step and asks:

19.01.2022 Angie Hart has almost died several times at the hairy hands of insects and arachnids.

19.01.2022 Quite the read. By Hanna Rosin.

18.01.2022 Welcome to Boom Town: Julian Hewitt on the most isolated capital city in the world. With illustrations by Simon Greiner.

18.01.2022 "How strange, exciting and miraculous that we can change each other so much, love each other so much through our words and music and our real lives." LET THE TEARS RAIN

18.01.2022 Be sure to check out Prudence Murphys Boys With Guns series at Gallery 2010. These beautiful pictures were featured in Ampersand 3.

17.01.2022 Ampersand contributor artist Guo Jian detained by Chinese police prior to Tiananmen Square anniversary!?

15.01.2022 The Brainery Store is a new, moveable, lecture collective. And they have a magazine shop. Check these fine folks out.

14.01.2022 PLZ somebody help ... so many mixed feelings. Primarily that this is the most interested Ive been in the election since the campaign began.

13.01.2022 Werner Herzog reads from All the Pretty Horses. I hope this feeling lasts the whole day.

13.01.2022 Now available in store and online at Beautiful Pages, Darlinghurst. Back issues too!

13.01.2022 Eighth grade grammar exam from 1912. Please get in touch if you know what any of this means.

13.01.2022 "In Blue Wizard, Nick Coyle plays an intergalactic gay wizard on the side of a mountain, stranded on earth, casting spells and dancing magic dances in an attempt to return to his comet."

12.01.2022 Were very sad to hear of the death of the great Bob Ellis. Here is How love has changed, the piece Bob wrote for Ampersands sixth issue, One Little Room. It contains the phrase squashy French letter and a reference to When Harry Met Sally.... RIP Bob.

11.01.2022 Hot? Bothered? Think youre gonna die? Well listen to Nick Coyles radio play Batfeet, starring Anna Houston, Tom Campbell and Nathan Lovejoy.

10.01.2022 Join alumnus Roslyn Oades, Adena Jacobs and Anne-Louise Sarks in this program for burgeoning female auteurs. http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/female-director-in-resi/

10.01.2022 Hot? Bothered? Think you're gonna die? Well listen to Nick Coyle's radio play Batfeet, starring Anna Houston, Tom Campbell and Nathan Lovejoy.

07.01.2022 - Vaudeville sister act of Karla and Eleanor Gutchrlein, better know as the Sisters G. - A mesmerising pair of identical twin sisters - cabaret queens more fam...ous for their stunning looks than their talent. In many ways, Janzieska and Roszieska Deutch - better known as Jenny and Rosie Dolly - were the first people in the world who were famous simply for being famous. The Dolly sisters were born in Budapest on 25 October 1892 to a photographer named Julius and Margarethem the original ambitious mother, who had them performing on the American stage aged 13 after the whole family had emigrated to America. They perfected a single-sex tandem dance act under the name The Dolly Sisters and were making money performing it in beer halls as early as 1907. But the act itself didnt really matter. Jenny and Rosie were pouting, purring, mirror-image dolls for whom audiences went wild. Their lack of actual talent was remarked upon, but no one cared - they were stunning creatures who combined an air of innocence with a seductive, racy, wild side. In the Bonhams Magazine, writer Neil Lyndon says: In the Twenties the Dolly Sisters were celebrities on a scale that dwarfed most movie stars, plutocrats and princes, Yet today not one person in 1,000 could tell you who they were. The Dollies were stunningly good looking. Their straight but delicate noses, wide-set eyes and rosebud mouths gave them a seductive air of innocence while their dark eyes and skin suggested depths of gypsy wildness. Slight and trim but full-breasted, they were obviously a terrific turn-on for men when they danced together. Thanks to their looks, their vibrant personalities, and the simple fact that there were two of them, men all over the world were smitten, and they managed to climb from the vaudeville stage to the heights of Broadway as cabaret dancing act. With a penchant for feathers, a knack for dressing identically whether on stage or off, and a routine they perfected by practising in front of the mirror, the sisters created a dynamic, intriguing, seductive package that men could not resist. Men fell at their feet, and when they arrived in London in the Twenties they danced for Prince George and Prince Henry, the youngest sons of King George V. They both married and divorced very young, and soon after became the object of many a devoted admirer, including Harry Selfridge, founder of Selfridges department store in London, who became obsessed with them. At 67 he was twice Jennys age when he fell in love with her, but that didnt stop him purchasing t her a chteau in France and proposed marriage every week - never receiving the answer for which he dreamed. Selfridge showered the twins with gifts, money and jewels in hope of winning their true affections, and even more so when they developed serious gambling addictions. He paid off their debts with his fortune, and by 1931 was close to bankruptcy after they had whittled away his 2million estate. But the Depression proved to be their downfall. The free money dried up and in 1933 Jenny was involved in a near-fatal car crash that destroyed her looks forever and led her to suicide in 1941. Her sister Rosie attempted unsuccessfully to follow her in 1962, eventually succumbing to heart failure in 1970. The pair had never been able to accept that celebrity can be fleeting. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk//Dolly-Sisters-Jenny-Rosie-1920

06.01.2022 Its happening folks A NEW SATURDAY PAPER. Just when you thought your weekends were consigned to the squalid remains of the once great major papers, the good folk at The Monthly are offering a new option. Its print, its physical, you can touch it. Its headed by Ampersands own Erik Jensen. And were pretty fucking excited.

06.01.2022 Literally the worst dictionary editors buckle under the pressure of hoards of morons who use a word in the exact opposite way that it is intended. (via Eddie Sharp)

05.01.2022 Video: the excellent Kate Holden on paying for love, and loving for free.

05.01.2022 Did you miss our Melbourne launch? You did? Well srsly, relax, because this week were putting up videos of each of the nights readers Helen Razer, Kate Holden, Laura Jean McKay, Angie Hart and Bill Henson. To kick us off, here is Darren Hanlon reading his suite of poems, Signposts Hinting at the Existence of Love. Enjoy!

05.01.2022 Ladies and gents! In this ere video Laura Jean McKay reads an excerpt from Coming Up, taken from her new collection of short stories, Holiday in Cambodia. Also starring Nick Coyle, who announces with visible revulsion that Laura has Dengue fever. Meanwhile this is our new video page! It has all of our moving-picture films on it, like the silver screen but compact and much, much lower res.... With Emerging Writers Festival.

05.01.2022 Do watch this: Bill Henson talking about Melbourne in the 80s what he loved about it, and how a city can change. Also, Nick Coyle introduces him as Bill Hanson.

03.01.2022 Some words and thoughts about men in the South and Good Jeff Nichols.

03.01.2022 A shock inventory has revealed we have: Only 3 copies of our beloved Issue 3 left (Eddie Sharp / The Drones + Emily Hunt / Claudia ODoherty / Laura Jean / Alyssa McDonald / Nick Sun / SPOD / Capture The Fade photo comp winners etc) and ... Only 4 copies of our beloved Issue 4 left (Bob Brown / Tommy Murphy / Tracey Moffatt / My Darling Patricia / Jess Cook / Anna Kristensen / Thomas Henning etc) STILL $10 GET EM WHILE YOU STILL CAN http://ampersandmagazine.com.au/buy/

02.01.2022 Who is the bigger weirdo James Joyce or Kool Keith? Take this simple quiz to find out.

01.01.2022 David Malouf: "For the 40 years before that, the Sydney Harbour Bridge had been Sydneys emblem, the great arc of it a single force linking the south shores of the harbour to the north. Now a new emblem appeared and Sydneysiders immediately saw the two as mirrors of one another, the arc of the bridge and its broken reflection; another arc, but divided now into sections and fitted one inside the next."

01.01.2022 People will always love to hold something in their hands. Via Simone Mandl