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.
Sam Wieck runs back to words when pictures act too simply. His wasted youth has set the precedent for an ongoing quarter-life crisis. He has a lot of questions, such as: Am I a hipster? What is a hipster? Is it too late to learn an instrument? Does it really matter if I'm a hipster? Why do I keep thinking about hipsters? What's the best way to get a pasta sauce stain out of a white t-shirt? And will I ever use my BFA?
