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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Lucas Grainger-Brown

Lucas Grainger-Brown is a writer completing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is the winner of the 2018 Calibre Prize and has been shortlisted for the Fair Australia Prize and the Horne Prize. His writing has appeared in numerous Australian journals and outlets.

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27 July 201812 September 2018 · The internet

Friend simulation for the precariat

Lucas Grainger-Brown

On the days I work from home I have a habit of watching a YouTube video at lunchtime. A video made by my favourite friend simulator. He is, after all, a superlative comrade: funny, uncomplicated, accessible, chipper and constant. I’ve worked many jobs in any number of fields and I’ve never felt as positively towards a colleague as I do towards this man.