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Simone de Beauvoir’s 
The Inseparables
CHARLIE TRENERRY 11.08.2025
Charlie’s Literature Club has made a triumphant return. 

A novella written in 1954 by the woman much ahead of her time, but only recently published posthumously. 

MIICA BALINT 04.06.2025 

Three explorations of conservation. The first, a vulnerable encounter with Australia’s largest butterfly. 

Too PreciousKATE MIDDELEER 09.06.202

The unsettling feeling of screeching to a halt. And unanswered emails.




rolling columncharlie’s  literature club


Life imitates art, or art imitates Charlie. In-depth, emotive, and thoughtful deep-dives into some of our literature expert’s favourite books, and their authors.


     
  art + culture archive
Do not be afraid of experimentation BEBA RIZZARO 28.03.2025

A graphic designer encourages you to play.

NATALIE WOODS,
PHOTOGRAPHY NINA CLAIRE, UMA CHAGHAGHI, 
HAYLEY SMITH,SHARI ANNABELL MARKS, 
ANTHONY ONG, SINEAD LEIGH.  01.12.2024

HOTMESS. A little bit surrealistic,  
a little bit raunch, and a whole lot 
of incredible costumes. 

In Conversation with
Karlee Mackie

KATE MIDDELEER 20.04.2024

The home studio of one of the best. 
Aliens, mould, exhibitions, surf, vaginas. 
With added joyful insight from Karlee’s 
son Koda.



















ecology archive

Wukalina WalkMIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY ALEC BAKER 22.04.2025
What the Palawa people have done with land rights in Wukalina to Larapuna returned, marks how custodianship, guided by reciprocity, respect and relationality, is the way to heal. 
MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY MONTANA COOPER 27.10.2024

A regenerative farming tangent and an exploration of belonging, learning and experimenting. With Cass Hynes.
      














   


music archive
Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to 
therapy. Andrew Fraser of Pasiflorez 
and Bodalla.
I shaved my armpits for
Nic Munnelly.
MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO 24.05.2024

I did. I also ate two boiled eggs and was on my second coffee, black, by the time I met Jill and Nic at ten am. 


KATE MIDDELEER 15.02.2024

Did Francois Hardy sing bossa nova 
at the Bangalow Bowlo?
   

















Northern Rivers Independent Press operates on the unceded lands of the Bundjalung Arakwal people, the Minjungbal people and the Widjabul Wia-bal people. We acknowledge these custodians, and the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respect, and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters, skies, communities and stories.




charlie’s           literature club


Life imitates art, or art imitates Charlie. In-depth, emotive, and thoughtful deep-dives into some of our literature expert’s favourite books, and their authors.





Simone de Beauvoir’s 
The Inseparables
CHARLIE TRENERRY 21.07.2025
Charlie’s Literature Club has made a triumphant return. A novella written in 1954 by the woman much ahead of her time, but only recently published posthumously. 
Jean-Paul Sartre’s NauseaCHARLIE TRENERRY 06.01.2024

Instagram would have definitely given Jean-Paul Sartre motion sickness. 


CHARLIE TRENERRY 09.09.2024

An unapologetic look into the gruesome and beautiful guilt of female desire. 
CHARLIE TRENERRY 08.08.2024

Charlie replaces food money for books this 
week. Alan Bennett.

CHARLIE TRENERRY 06.06.2024

Each word and letter and line of illustration 
belongs where it lays on the page. And they will absolutely break your heart because of it. Leonard Cohen.
CHARLIE TRENERRY 05.05.2024

I begin my second column by promising you, dear reader, that they won’t all be on obscure little pieces by well-known authors of other things. Virginia Woolf.


CHARLIE TRENERRY 12.02.2024

One of those little books that may change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke. 









Quiet observers and mischief partakers. When big things happen, Sou turns to the plants to teach him something. In turn he helps us better understand them, too.




DANIEL SOUZA 06.01.2024

Symbiotic balance, a reflection on the state
 of our relationship with our planet, a consideration for understanding the whole picture.
 
DANIEL SOUZA 09.09.2024

This ode begins with a gift. Which I must say, to this day, I still don’t know if it was truly meant for me.

DANIEL SOUZA 07.07.2024

Paperbark trees and beauty in subtleties.
 
DANIEL SOUZA 05.05.2024


Let this be an ode to the incredibly special nature of Australian flora. The first; the turpentine tree.