Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
…such is Kadare’s skill as a storyteller that he renders conventional wisdom with the force of a childhood trauma. The New York Times reviews Ismail Kadare’s The Fall of the Stone City.
Dis/honouring dead writers: on the ethics of posthumous publishing.
After 19 years on death row, Damien Echols is starting to build a life in Salem, Massachusetts.
New research tells us that reading for pleasure as a teen is the most important indicator for future success—so how do you instil a love of reading?
Watch a video interview with Romy Ash, whose debut novel, Floundering, is on the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.
What writers can learn from rock stars.
It’s like throwing a Lolita-themed children’s birthday party. Read more
What makes The Great Gatsby so great, anyway?
This Chemical Life: Auden, Sartre, Greene and other great writers who loved uppers.
For St John, words were about keeping the darkness at bay. Trinca treats this aspect of the life with great acuity. Lucy Sussex on Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John in the Sydney Review of Books.
Stephen King was right. Books are ‘portable magic’.
Florence Williams has just won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Science and Technology category for her book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. She explains her obsession with breasts here.
List of hot women writers serves absolutely no purpose, offends everyone.
The things that scare you are the things that are going to dig deepest into your psyche as a writer. Krissy Kneen, Working with Words over at the The Wheeler Centre.
Cats may be masters of the online world, but when it comes to literature, it’s all about the dog. (The picture above, of my cat proofreading, would suggest otherwise.)
This year’s book jacket fashions. Ugh, a close-up of women’s shoes is SO 2010.
Ask the Writing Teacher: Read more
I know when I am writing erotica or literary fiction. I feel it in my body. Read an interview with Krissy Kneen, author of Steeplechase.
Granta’s just-announced list of the best young British novelists for 2013 includes Text authors Tahmima Anam and Steven Hall.
