The Lifted Brow is a bimonthly Australian magazine that originated in Brisbane[1] and is now produced from Melbourne.[2].
Primarily a literary journal, it also publishes art, comics, and music; it has been considered "uncategorisable".[3] It has been noted for publishing emerging and established Australian authors, such as Christos Tsiolkas and Frank Moorhouse, alongside international authors including Neil Gaiman, Douglas Coupland, Heidi Julavits, Rick Moody, and David Foster Wallace.[4] Regular contributors include Spencer Krug, Eddie Campbell, Alice Pung, Jez Burrows, and Leesa Wockner.
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January 19 2007
Designed to look like a literary journal from the past, The Lifted Brow was launched at The Troubadour by musical acts Ambitious Lovers, Shakes, Marlinchen, and Blendher. Featured authors of fiction included Anna Pearson, Chris Somerville, Rory Killen, Ben Spencer, Amy Thomas, and Cameron Murphy. Interviewees included Eddie Campbell, Animal Collective and Naomi Shihab Nye. Contributing artists were Bad Teeth, Plump Oyster and Mel Stringer.[5]
September 19 2007
The second issue published work with an increased focus on Brisbane, as well as new work by Dean Bakopoulos and Tao Lin. It included a CD documenting Brisbane's indie scene as at late 2007, with contributions from BigStrongBrute, Shiver Like Timber, Joel Saunders, Rialto Decibel Choir, The Night Crash, To the North, and many others.[6]
May 2008
January 2009
The fourth issue of The Lifted Brow features stories, songs, and comics based on the 103 titles in a "fake bookshelf". Contributors include Karen Russell, Adam Thirlwell, Joe Meno, Robert Olen Butler, Jeffrey Brown, Clancy Martin and Deb Olin Unferth, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, Carey Mercer and Sydney Vermont, Jim Shepard, Sam Lipsyte, Heidi Julavits, Spencer Krug, Chris Bachelder, Jonathan Meiburg, Rick Moody, The Panda Band, No Kids, The Lucksmiths, Neil Gaiman, Dan Deacon, Thee More Shallows, Rock Plaza Central, Spiral Stairs, Frightened Rabbit, The Wrens, and The Capstan Shafts.[7]
August 2009
The fifth issue included fiction by Robert Shearman, Glen David Gold, Scarlett Thomas, Blake Butler and Justin Taylor, nonfiction by Tom Bissell and Michael Hearst, poetry by Tao Lin, comics by Mandy Ord, and illustrations by James Gurney and Renee French. Additionally, it included an audio recording of a "post-apocalyptic love story, told in eighty minutes of strict rhyming couplets" by Brisbane writer Thomas Benjamin Guerney, which Daniel Handler blurbed as "an epic of heartbreak and awesomeness".[8]
January 2010
The sixth issue of The Lifted Brow purports to be an atlas, featuring stories, songs, comics, art, and limericks based on the 246 countries of the world. Contributors include Reif Larsen, Dylan Horrocks, Darren Hanlon, Douglas Coupland, Jincy Willett, Christine Schutt, Benjamin Kunkel, Seripop, Victor Kerlow, Christos Tsiolkas, Kevin Brockmeier, David Heatley, My Pal Foot Foot, Because of Ghosts, Bodies of Water, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Clue to Kalo, Aidan Moffat, The Cannanes, and Indian Jewelry. Additionally, it includes an unseen excerpt from David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King.[9]
Blake Butler, Diane Williams, Diane Williams, Rob Shearman, Nick Modrzewski, Michaela McGuire, Phil Estes, Arthur S Halsey Jr, Bryce Wolfgang Joiner, Matt Bell, Bryan Whalen, Kate Cantrell, Tim McGuire, Ryan Call, Shane Jesse Christmass, Blake Kimzey, Jimmy Chen, Kate McIntyre, Dan Moreau, Brian Evenson, Dan Piepenbring, Frank Moorhouse, Johannes Jakob, Chris Somerville, Chris Currie, Dolan Morgan, AS Patric, Kim Chinquee, Leesa Wockner, Mike Meginnis, AE Reiff, Paul Murdock, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Zachary German, Krissy Kneen, Joel Van Noord, Gabe Durham, David Finig, Jensen Beach, Sam Pink, Matt Furie, Howell Golson, Alexi Keywan, Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Lisa Brown, Bernard Caleo, Eirian Chapman, Josh Cotter, Jo Dery, Phil Elverum, Michael P Fikaris, Lisa Hanawalt, John Hankiewicz, Sarah Howell, Lee May, Scot Nobles, Woodley Nye, Ron Rege Jr, Seripop, Mel Stringer, Jo Waite, Kirsten Reed, and C.F.
Jez Burrows, Eddie Campbell, Ben Constantine, Michael P Fikaris, Noel Freibert, Helen Garner, Howell Golson, Lisa Hanawalt, Michelle Law, Andrew Leland, Tao Lin, James Mcculloch, Lane Milburn, Nick Modrzewski, Liam Pieper, Alice Pung, Ron Rege Jr, Ronnie Scott, Asher Treleaven, Lorelei Vashti, Bryan Whalen, Leesa Wockner.
April 2011
Cody Hoyt, Luke Ryan, Mark Chu, Sam Cooney, Chris Currie, Blake Butler, Alice Pung, Leesa Wockner, Patrick Clelland, Microbiology, Anna Barnes, Noel Freibert, Eddie Campbell, Ben Sea, Mandy Ord, Benjamin Marra, James Mcculloch, Spencer Krug, Chris Somerville at the Gold Coast Military Museum, Anna Krien, Jess McGuire, Megan Washington, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Ryan Boudinot, Brandon Hobson, Phil Estes, Matthew Dexter, Lane Milburn, Liberty Browne, and Emma Hewitt.