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Coetzee hasn’t done anything as fine and beautifully executed as this since Disgrace. Andrew Riemer’s review of J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Childhood of Jesus.
Rose Tremain on how a particular smell inspired her to become a writer.
Submissions for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing open today.
20 highly sexy photos of highbrow authors.
Anne Sexton says it’s the sexiest meal of the day and Bilbo Baggins likes it so much he has it twice: what a character’s breakfast choices say about them.
The lovely literary window displays at Bergdorf Goodman.
‘Ron Rash’s new short story collection, Nothing Gold Can Stay, is this Appalachian author’s best book since his 2008 Serena. If Read more
Oh hiiiiiii there: Jen Doll on the trend of word lengthening.
The debased art of coining words: a glossary. Related: it’s sad that we don’t hear ‘booboisie’ any more.
How to buy your way on to the New York Times bestseller list.
‘There can’t be a novelist in America who watched The Wire and didn’t think, “Oh my God, I want to do something like that,”’ says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, who is co-writing an HBO series about magicians who fight Nazis with his wife, novelist Ayelet
The Guardian on Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project and that advance.
What Koch achieves with his prose—plain but undergirded by breathtaking angles, like a beautiful face scrubbed free of makeup—is a brilliantly engineered and (for the thoughtful reader) chastening mindfuck.
14 classic albums reimagined as books.
No chewing on the headphone cords and other very specific rules from real libraries.
Nerd gym: a bizarre library work-out video.
The 10 sexiest books of all time?
Read 20 novels in 2 minutes, in emoji form.
You are what you read: Read more
