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I understand the Chinese political and cultural environment well. I understand people who don’t use their voice. As an intellectual and author I should require myself to do it first. If I don’t do enough, I can’t require other authors to do so. There’s always a reason.
‘This is an astonishing, defiant little book’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the Irish Times.
Reading chick lit makes you feel fat. This is why I only read cookbooks.
Dustin Kurtz of Melville House on why he won’t shut up about Amazon.
What mode of communication should you use? Consult this handy flowchart for the answer.
10 movies that make writing out to look incredibly dangerous (and not a one about the perils of paper cuts).
Sylvia Plathypus and other literary puns, illustrated.
Read this, says Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus, of Robin Sloan’s Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Let’s all chip in and buy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s house.
A rave review for Alyssa Brugman’s Alex As Well, plus an interview with the author, at Alpha Reader.
25 hard truths about writing and publishing.
200 years of Pride and Prejudice, in pictures.
Literary editor of The Age Jason Steger profiles Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project (out tomorrow).
‘Prolific doesn’t mean good’ and other gentle reminders about writing.
As part of the launch of the Text Classics in the UK, BBC Radio 4’s Mariella Frostrup spoke to Thomas Keneally, Geordie Williamson and Carmen Callil about the Text Classics, Australian literature and cultural identity.
Listen to them discuss works by Henry Handel Richardson, Read more
10 excellent reasons to date a bookworm.
When good authors give bad writing advice.
Shteyngart Blurbs: A Documentary.
‘A neverthriving of jugglers’ and other fun collective nouns.
Looking for a way to waste the afternoon? Here’s an oddly addictive Read more
A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. Vladimir Nabokov on what makes a good reader.
Fascinating: literary agent Jennifer Udden (@suddenlyjen) live-tweeted her slush pile reading. Check out her responses at Read more
