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Tennis is huge right now. Debbie is back this weekend. Are you "friction-maxxing"?
Welcome back to Gossip — a round up of all our favourite news and whispers from Melbourne and beyond.
Happy Birthday Dolly Parton! The Queen of Country turned 80 yesterday.
Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled, after 180 authors dropped out of the festival in protest of the festival’s erroneous disinvitation of Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah. You can buy Randa Abdel-Fattah’s novel Discipline here (UQP is reprinting so there will be more stock available soon!).
Awards season is here and Timothée Chalamet is everywhere.
The fourth season of Industry premiered on HBO last Monday. Its second episode, which dropped yesterday, is my favourite of the series thus far.
Debbie is on this weekend! Tickets here.
Marty Supreme was low-key great. Like Uncut Gems but happier and funnier.
Why is Ivy Wolk randomly the best agony aunt ever? An extract: ‘Girl. Of course you are in grad school, as grad school is God’s sandbox for bored and unstimulated bitches to languish and play in until they decide to self-publish poetry books or get pregnant.’
New York Magazine is bringing back classifieds! Should Pleasure Principle do the same?
I’m hearing a lot of noise about vintage sportswear. I’m on board — we’ve all seen too many pink CSB sets — but I have questions about hygiene….
Girls on TikTok are “friction-maxxing” – swapping all the little infantilisations of contemporary life (ChatGPT, Uber Eats) for deliberate inconvenience. J’adore.
Loved this review from Greta Rainbow about Bryan Johnson and Madeline Cash’s new novel Lost Lambs.
Australian Yerin Ha will star as the lead in the new season of Bridgerton, dropping January 29.
The thong epidemic continues. The dogs are out…everywhere.
Rhode Beauty will land at MECCA in early February.
Alysa Liu proves to Little Monsters everywhere that anything is possible <3 Her Gaga free skate was magical, powerful, ethereal.
It’s tennis season! Obsessed with Naomi Osaka’s entrance outfit tonight.