Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
An award-winning essay by Hedley Twidle on J. M. Coetzee and South African literature.
Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellarman claim that most of what you think you know about grammar is wrong; others say that most of what O'Conner and Kellarman think about grammar is wrong.
I understand the Chinese political and cultural environment well. I understand people who don’t use their voice. As an intellectual and author I should require myself to do it first. If I don’t do enough, I can’t require other authors to do so. There’s always a reason.
‘This is an astonishing, defiant little book’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the Irish Times.
Reading chick lit makes you feel fat. This is why I only read cookbooks.
Dustin Kurtz of Melville House on why he won’t shut up about Amazon.
Read this, says Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus, of Robin Sloan’s Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Let’s all chip in and buy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s house.
A rave review for Alyssa Brugman’s Alex As Well, plus an interview with the author, at Alpha Reader.
25 hard truths about writing and publishing.
200 years of Pride and Prejudice, in pictures.
Literary editor of The Age Jason Steger profiles Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project (out tomorrow).
‘Prolific doesn’t mean good’ and other gentle reminders about writing.
A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. Vladimir Nabokov on what makes a good reader.
Fascinating: literary agent Jennifer Udden (@suddenlyjen) live-tweeted her slush pile reading. Check out her responses at Read more
The long scene of Emily and Eli being counseled by Peter Herman is as well-wrought, honest, and un-sentimental depiction of a couple working through their issues as I’ve ever read. Ben Schrank’s Love Is a Canoe reviewed on The Rumpus.
Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, on how writing saved his life.
Read an interview on The Rumpus with Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians, the publishing power couple behind Melville House.
It’s been two centuries since the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and Helen Garner has a date with Darcy.
And I realized I don’t want to get in the habit of ‘checklist reading'—paging through an old book for no other reason than to say I’ve read it.
