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Dispatches from The Paris End

By: Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds, Oscar Schwartz

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Paperback | 1 November 2025

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A few years ago, Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds, and Oscar Schwartz sat down for a beer at a Melbourne pub and decided to start a newsletter. It would be called The Paris End, after the aspirationally cosmopolitan (yet persistently grotty) hilltop at the eastern end of Melbourne's city centre. It would seek to make much of a striving metropolis. It would publish hyperlocal, irreverent, long-form literary journalism a dirty martini and a good gossip in email form.

EXCLUSIVE brings together a selection of eighteen lively essays from the first years of The Paris End. Hurst, Olds, and Schwartz take you into corset-making studios, art fairs, micro-dairies, apartment developments, university pubs, biohacking spas, court rooms, and the musty offices of the city's Lacanian psychoanalysts. They ask urgent questions, such as: Can the male lesbian speak? Would you want to live forever if you had to live in Docklands? How does one emulate Frank Moorhouse's financial ability to stay fed with caviar, and watered with champagne?

In this anthology, three distinct voices collaborate to mythologise a time and place, making Melbourne feel as worthy of attention as London, New York or Berlin.

About the Author

Cameron Hurst is a writer and art historian. Her writing has appeared in publications including Memo Review, HEAT, Gusher, Artlink, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. She co-edited Venus in Tullamarine: Art, Sex, Politics and Norman Lindsay (Index Press, 2023).

Sally Olds is a writer from Queensland living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work has been published in Sydney Review of Books, un Magazine, AQNB, and by the Powerhouse Museum, the Institute of Modern Art, and more. Her first book, a collection of essays titled People who Lunch, was published in 2022.

Oscar Schwartz is a writer and journalist. His reporting and criticism have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and Sydney Review of Books.

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