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For a Song and a Hundred Songs is a compelling and harrowing read: Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir reviewed in the New York Times.
How do we talk about books that are only okay?
Avoiding the passive voice—with zombies.
So Me and Mr. Booker is a book of wavering, hesitant in its sympathies, welcoming readers to find their own allegiances however they please, which is a mark of its confidence, as well as Cory Taylor’s impressive talents. A great review of Cory Taylor’s Read more
‘Women’s desire is an underestimated and constrained force’: an interview in the Guardian with Daniel Bergner, plus an extract from What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Everything you need to know about the great ebook price war.
Onomatopoeia for the eyes. For the eyes!
9 commonly used words with surprisingly unsavoury histories. I think we should all start saying ‘gentleman cow’.
Placing Literature maps book scenes in the real world.
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Listen to a great review of Charlie Lovett’s The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession on Radio NZ.
Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists.
Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one. Hardly one. Gertrude Stein is rejected.
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And so it is that this immensely gifted Chinese writer performs his poetic acts of mourning for the entertainment of audiences in Berlin and New York—an exotic “dissident” abroad, his voice to be heard everywhere except where it is most needed. Read more
Congratulations to Murray Bail, Brenda Niall and Vikki Wakefield, shortlisted authors in the WA Premier’s Book Awards!
Murray Bail’s The Voyage has been shortlisted in the category for fiction; Brenda Niall’s Read more
‘Elizabeth Harrower’s tale of a cruel and oppressive marriage is a forgotten gem of Australian literature’, says Anita Sethi in the Guardian.
Where in the world do people read the most?
…And then things get a little weird. The story of Norm Macdonald’s Twitter book club.
15 books destroyed (GASP!) for art (phew).
The wedding photos of 16 authors in love. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle doesn’t look all that happy, actually.
7 women from literature who would make great drinking buddies.
