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'Harrower’s writing is witty, desolate, truth-seeking, and complexly polished.' James Wood on Elizabeth Harrower in the New Yorker.
The pleasure of reading difficult novels (and maybe The Goldfinch).
'To read the opening paragraph of Eimear McBride’s novel A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is to be radically disoriented,' says the LA Review of Books.
'Francis Plug is the funniest book I've read in ages': Paul Ewen's novel Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author reviewed in The Sunday Times.
What separates the books we talk about from those we don't talk about?
10 of the weirdest invented languages in literature.
Obviously, non-sequitur segue. Utter misinterpretation of the only other author researched for this paper. Blind search for evidence reflecting increasing desperation (authors 4, 5, and 6). Read more
'Ms Harrower is one of the great Australian writers of the postwar era...Much like her chilling 1966 novel, The Watch Tower, [Read more
If quotes from Bernard Black (of Black Books) were motivational posters.
'An incredulity of cuckolds', 'a misbelief of painters' and other excellent collective nouns.
11 Nintendo games based on classic works of literature.
Who your favourite author slept with, in Read more
It is, in all respects, a heresy—which is to say, Lord above, it’s a future classic. Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing reviewed in the New York Times.
'Henshaw's effects are consistently magical': The Snow Kimono, reviewed in the Canberra Times.
The third book in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, has been attracting incredible reviews.
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