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I love writing short stories because they are contained; you can just have that essence of a world, you don’t have to explain everything. An interview with Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Romy Ash about her first novel, Read more

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Today, Elsewhere

Barry Humphries is set to join Guy Pearce and Marta Dusseldorp in the third Jack Irish telemovie for the ABC, Dead Point.

In praise of brilliant sentences and their preservation.

A bitter writer ‘revenge edits’ the Wikipedia pages of his rivals, Read more

Friday Links

The Emotionary: words that don’t exist for feelings that do.

40 inspiring workspaces of the famously creative. E. B. White, you didn’t want a plant or something? Maybe a poster of a kitten captioned ‘Hang in there’?

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Today, Elsewhere

The Text Classics edition of Elizabeth Harrower’s brilliant The Watch Tower is now on the shelves in North America. The Daily Beast picked it as a Hot Read, calling it ‘[a] fantastically incisive portrait of domestic cruelty’, and Kirkus interviewed the author.

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Today, Elsewhere

The shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize has been announced!

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

The mystery of the epigraph to The Great Gatsby is solved.

9 grammar rules you should actually pay attention to.

Shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing

From a record 350 entries, four fantastic novels have made it on to the shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

Competing for the AU$10,000 prize are the following shortlisted books—all by Australian women.

Today, Elsewhere

Reading is a kind of death. One exits one’s life, is gone from the world. If my telephone rings, if my beloved calls out my name, I am no longer here. I don’t exist. Dead to the world. And reading erases the world.
On reading in general, and on reading Johanna Adorján’s Read more

‘Comparison to James Joyce’s Dubliners is irresistible.'

So says A. S. Patric in his review of Mary Costello’s The China Factory for Readings.

Anne Enright says ‘It is the accumulation of tiny pleasures…that makes Read more

Today, Elsewhere

…such is Kadare’s skill as a storyteller that he renders conventional wisdom with the force of a childhood trauma. The New York Times reviews Ismail Kadare’s The Fall of the Stone City.

Dis/honouring dead writers: on the ethics of posthumous publishing.

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