by amykitchen | Oct 21, 2026 | special delivery
The Shoulder Season If you are here from the code on your envelope, welcome. This is the online companion to the first issue: the full letter, the playlist, the makers behind what landed in your mailbox, and links to everything recommended. If you are here without an...
by amykitchen | Oct 14, 2026 | listen, read, watch
Nobody close to me has died recently. And yet, if you looked at what I’ve been watching, reading and listening to over the past year, you’d be forgiven for assuming otherwise. Sick matriarchs. Lost family houses. Dying protagonists. Families pulled apart by forces...
by amykitchen | Oct 7, 2026 | read
The trouble with a Kindle is that every book weighs the same. So it was a shock to spot The Calamity Club stacked on a bookshop table, mid-read, and realise it runs to 656 pages. A doorstop, in other words, and the first stretch of this book reads like one. Kathryn...
by amykitchen | Sep 30, 2026 | listen
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Kids are heading to school in orange shirts, and plenty of friends in federally regulated jobs have the day off. The history of orange shirts comes from Phyllis Webstad, who had a new one taken from her on her...
by amykitchen | Sep 9, 2026 | watch
Here is a list of what I am looking forward to this fall. A mixture of tv and film. Watching the stories of strong women persevere on screen is inspirational when the temperatures are dropping. Fortunately, it looks like we’re in for a good season. Ranging from...
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