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Genevieve Novak

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Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 5

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 7

The Age

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 8

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 7

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 7

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 6

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 5

The Age

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my...

30.08.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my...

30.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my...

30.08.2024 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my...

30.08.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 8

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 40

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 7

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Is my biological clock faulty, or is motherhood just not for me?

I think I know the exact moment I decided that motherhood wasn’t for me. Parent-teacher interview night, 1997. I watched as my mother exited my...

19.06.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Is my biological clock faulty, or is motherhood just not for me?

I think I know the exact moment I decided that motherhood wasn’t for me. Parent-teacher interview night, 1997. I watched as my mother exited my...

19.06.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Is my biological clock faulty, or is motherhood just not for me?

I think I know the exact moment I decided that motherhood wasn’t for me. Parent-teacher interview night, 1997. I watched as my mother exited my...

19.06.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Is my biological clock faulty, or is motherhood just not for me?

I think I know the exact moment I decided that motherhood wasn’t for me. Parent-teacher interview night, 1997. I watched as my mother exited my...

19.06.2024 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

At 33, I’m still getting started. Does that make me soft and whiny?

I never really thought very much about life after the age of 30. I spent all of my adolescence waiting for the technicolour dreamscape of my 20s, and...

07.06.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

At 33, I’m still getting started. Does that make me soft and whiny?

I never really thought very much about life after the age of 30. I spent all of my adolescence waiting for the technicolour dreamscape of my 20s, and...

07.06.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

At 33, I’m still getting started. Does that make me soft and whiny?

I never really thought very much about life after the age of 30. I spent all of my adolescence waiting for the technicolour dreamscape of my 20s, and...

07.06.2024 7

The Age

Genevieve Novak

At 33, I’m still getting started. Does that make me soft and whiny?

I never really thought very much about life after the age of 30. I spent all of my adolescence waiting for the technicolour dreamscape of my 20s, and...

07.06.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Just like in the TV shows, we were friends forever - until we weren’t

It’s a law written by the authors of all coming-of-age stories: friendships are sacrosanct. It was drilled into my head as a young woman, via Dolly...

02.02.2024 8

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Just like in the TV shows, we were friends forever - until we weren’t

It’s a law written by the authors of all coming-of-age stories: friendships are sacrosanct. It was drilled into my head as a young woman, via Dolly...

02.02.2024 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Just like in the TV shows, we were friends forever - until we weren’t

It’s a law written by the authors of all coming-of-age stories: friendships are sacrosanct. It was drilled into my head as a young woman, via Dolly...

02.02.2024 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

Just like in the TV shows, we were friends forever - until we weren’t

It’s a law written by the authors of all coming-of-age stories: friendships are sacrosanct. It was drilled into my head as a young woman, via Dolly...

02.02.2024 20

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Is it just me, or has social media started looking on the bright side?

I used to flood my group chat with stupid memes about nihilism and the call to the void so frequently that my friends banned them. When I kept sending...

19.01.2024 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Is it just me, or has social media started looking on the bright side?

I used to flood my group chat with stupid memes about nihilism and the call to the void so frequently that my friends banned them. When I kept sending...

19.01.2024 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Is it just me, or has social media started looking on the bright side?

I used to flood my group chat with stupid memes about nihilism and the call to the void so frequently that my friends banned them. When I kept sending...

19.01.2024 8

The Age

Genevieve Novak

Is it just me, or has social media started looking on the bright side?

I used to flood my group chat with stupid memes about nihilism and the call to the void so frequently that my friends banned them. When I kept sending...

19.01.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

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