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Are You My Baby Daddy? and other Dirty Library titles we’d like to read.
Authors name their favourite first lines of books.
i need a peach
can it wait?
not really
there’s like
a bunch of mermaids here
and they definitely hate me
Texts from J Alfred Prufrock.
Listen to journalist and author Daniel Bergner on Life Matters discussing his new book, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Book covers, before and after: 4 designers discuss their recent covers and why some designs won out over other options.
The Telegraph called Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being ‘metafiction wrestling with grand themes’ and ‘a compelling coming-of-age story’.
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The layers of meaning and reference, autobiographical elements, vivid and poetic language, characterisation and satire in Frame’s second posthumously published novel In the Memorial Room show again why she is one of New Zealand’s literary greats. The Read more
Everything in this novel is about opposites—life and death, love and hate, good and evil, yin and yang—but nothing is black and white. Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle reviewed at Three Percent.
Listen to A. J. Betts on Radio National’s Life Matters discussing her Text Prize–winning novel, Zac & Mia, and her heartbreaking experiences working with young people in an oncology ward.
Why do writers drink? Besides the usual reasons, I guess.
Guys, The Spare Room is an incredible novel. Nicole Cliffe loves Helen Garner.
Do you know what a ‘plewd’ is? How about a ‘quimp’ or a ‘grawlix’? The fascinating secret language of comic strips.
‘[A] remarkably funny, tender book’: Gabriel Roth’s The Unknowns reviewed in the New York Times.
The murky world of literary libel, or, maybe it’s not a great idea to ‘write out your feelings’ about certain people in fiction.
