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Ben Schott, author of Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition, chats with Adam Spencer on 702 ABC and with Jonathan Green on Radio National’s Sunday Extra.
Whom or what are literary prizes for?
Guy Rundle bids farewell to the second-hand bookshop.
When Macs Attack: Paul McNamee’s Game Changer: My Tennis Life, a memoir of his career in pro tennis, featured in the Age. Game Changer is out today; for a full list of events with Paul McNamee, visit our events page.
Readings reviews our two November Classics: Gerald Murnane’s A Lifetime on Clouds and Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.
‘This latest issue of the Griffith Review confirms its position as Australia’s most stimulating literary journal.’ Griffith REVIEW 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
I’m just going to close my eyes and imagine I’m relaxing in one of these idyllic reading nooks.
12 vintage advertisements starring famous authors.
Julian Peters has done some beautiful illustrations for a comic book adaptation of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’.
‘Though the techniques that McBride is employing have a lineage in modernist writing, their most significant innovators also Irish by birth, her efforts feel unusually fresh and inimitable.
Eimear McBride has won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, worth 10,000, for her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
The Goldsmiths Prize, launched this year by Goldsmiths' College, seeks to reward those who break new ground and ‘fiction at its most novel’.
‘Everything and nothing happens in a moving testament to love, loyalty, and friendships between women. Perhaps the real pure gold baby will know she, or he, has inspired this great writer to return to fiction with a poignant but ultimately uplifting tale.
These made-up words describe your life better than you can: Mashable considers Ben Schott’s Schottenfreude, a book of faux German words to describe the human condition.
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‘It must be clear immediately and to every reader that this is not a novel but a book of puzzles, a Socratic cipher for political philosophers and a riddle for allegorists; but there are even more puzzles, and more kinds of puzzle, in this book than might be apparent on first
