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‘Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of,’ says the Economist, but there’s no need to remain in ignorance—her novels My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, the first two in a planned trilogy, are available now.
‘Glistens with precocious wisdom’: Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career reviewed in the Guardian.
Burying the Hatchet: the death of the negative book review.
There’s been a lot of coverage of Lloyd Jones' moving memoir about a family mystery and a devastated landscape, A History of Silence, which Peter Pierce calls ‘as strange, wilful and compelling as his fiction’.
Watch a video of Lloyd talking with the ABC’s Jane Hutcheon on Read more
Writing is ‘a form of prayer’: a Wall Street Journal blog interview with Ruth Ozeki, author of the Booker-shortlisted A Tale for the Time Being.
‘Don’t be afraid to write a bad book’: David Levithan talks to the Guardian about the process of writing Every Day.
Anna Holmes and Francine Prose discuss the most erotic books they’ve ever read.
“An editor does not add to a book,” he argued.
Writers of a certain vintage often fall into one of two camps: those whose creative powers are irrevocably on the wane and those who are at the height of their game. Margaret Drabble’s 18th novel, Read more
Here’s a great tutorial that shows you how to turn old books into a bookshelf boombox.
10 bizarre literary landmarks that everyone should visit.
BYRONIC HERO Super-cool cool guy.
CANON All the literature that’s fit to print.
To write a novel in which an extraordinary reality is possible in conjunction with ordinary life, in which people can actually fly away or become invisible (and not just want to do those things metaphorically), was an enormous pleasure. Maile Meloy is interviewed over at Read more
‘Schultz is the intellectual ultra-marathoner of Australian cultural life.’ Chris Wallace has nothing but praise for GriffithREVIEW and its editor, Julianne Schultz. GriffithREVIEW 41 is available now; GriffithREVIEW 42 will be in shops from 27 October.
‘This is an impressive and scarily assured debut—and really funny.’ Gabriel Roth’s The Unknowns reviewed in the Guardian.
Covering Up: two designers (including our very own W. H. Chong) on the business of book covers.
Want to write better? Watch Columbo.
