Sarah Ayoub is organised chaos in the flesh. Nerdy, culture-savvy and a tad over-excited, she flits between university study (where she’s preparing for a doctorate), shopping centres (where she impulse-buys things like designer handbags and chocolate coins) and her bedroom, (where she writes at a computer surrounded by writer’s mess). Shy but flamboyant, a brain but a bimbo, conservative but open-minded, Sarah decided to pursue a career as a journalist because she wanted to be Lois Lane and Clark Kent’s love child (inheritor of enviable journalistic skills and the ability to fly) and because her plan to be a psychiatrist was shelved after a viewing of The Sixth Sense. Desperately in need of a time machine, Sarah Ayoub is an iron fist in a velvet glove - and a walking contradiction that makes perfect sense.
I’m going to open this review with a disclaimer. I love royalty. I am a staunch monarchist, and I often wonder what would have been had the French decided NOT to stage a revolution. I mean, would France and England still be competing with one another, or would they have mellowed out? Probably the latter [...]
Sarah Ayoub breaks it down for those caught up in a world of Vogue, reality television, air-brushing and Facebook. There is camera-ready beauty and there is trackpants-and-ugg-boot beauty – and both are in everybody.
“Writer means strolling down a city street wearing fabulous heels and sharing your glamorous life with the world. And I have stuffed it up already. I’m only sharing my woes.”
Sarah Ayoub looks at the tougher reality of a career in journalism and freelance writing, one the Carrie Bradshaws of the world forgot to tell you about.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a potential husband must be in want of a good fortune. As a woman in that very situation, I have decided to forego said fortune in favour of good closet. There’s just a little problem with my decision, and that is, by foregoing [...]
Hibernating in winter has some benefits for your heart, soul and bookshelf. Curl up with some wine or hot tea, some good cheese and crackers or a divine piece of cake, and sit back and enjoy. This month, Trespass checks in with award-winning Tim Winton, the creative Tom Cho, the mysterious tale of Julie Corbin, [...]
My closet has a problem with the recession. She is feeling very neglected. Truth be told, it’s not just the fact that I have recently been made redundant that is the only problem, but also that it happened while I was in the midst of scrounging up a house deposit for the home loan my [...]
Nearly three years after the Israel-Hezbollah July War in Lebanon, Sarah Ayoub reminisces on the time she spent in her mother country, and how the idyllic holiday she planned to spend with family went horribly wrong.
Ranger Spacey are a Sydney-based trio whose music style has been dubbed “Indie-Alt.Country Rock ‘n’ Roll for the Soul”. Forming in 2007, Vocalist, Songwriter and Guitarist Jimi Linton teamed up with Bass Player and High School friend Karl Napper, as well as freakishly talented drummer Bev, who was introduced to Jimi through Karl in a moonlit [...]
We know, we know, people are losing their jobs left, right and centre. Things are only going to get worse before they get better. Still, doesn’t mean you can’t find a little bit of humour in it all. Sarah Ayoub shares the lessons she has learnt so far in her adventures in unemployment.
The Other Half Lives
Sophie Hannah, Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99
Best-selling poet and award-winning short story writer Sophie Hannah’s electric fourth novel is one of her trademark ‘what-if’ stories of suspense. Ruth’s love for the new man in her life compels her to think about the things she has and does not deserve, on account of [...]
Trespass talks with writer, speaker, blogger and mentor, Rachel Hils
Does the future of Australian youth lie in declarations of racism, bouts of criminal behaviour, bloodied turf wars and an allegiance to everything that opposes the fair go, laid back Aussie lifestyle? Sarah Ayoub looks at the path Australia is heading down and how we’re the generation that can make or break that bleak prospect.
We have 10 double in-season passes to Me and Orson Welles, the latest offering from Richard Linklater.
