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Why do you write poetry, Maria Takolander?
See also Maria’s last blog post over at Southerly on not being born to write.
Are apostrophes necessary? Matthew J. X. Malady thinks not.
Donald Barthelme’s syllabus: 81 books essential for a literary education.
Spend some time on Twitter watching the cool writers talk to each other. Take note of the inside jokes you are not a part of and, let’s face it, most likely will never be. 10 ways to torture yourself as a writer.
…Diana Sweeney, author of The Minnow (formerly Flood Damage), the story of a young girl struggling to find her way after a devastating flood claims the lives of her sisters and parents.
‘Stay slim, don’t nag, have good sex…and cook tripe’: Marjorie Bligh, star of Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar, hits the UK.
‘You don’t get used to being in prison in a single day,’ says Echols, ‘and you don’t get used to being out of prison in a single day.’ Damien Echols talks to the Guardian about how he survived 18 years on death row.
The New York Times called Forty-One False Starts ‘a powerfully distinctive and very entertaining literary experience’.
Malcolm says, ‘I have never found anything any artist has said about his work interesting.
10 thoughts to take from this year’s Sydney Writers' Festival, including some insights on language from Diego Marani, author of The Last of the Vostyachs and New Finnish Grammar.
The New Yorker asks: do you need to like the main character to like the book?
We recently republished Patricia Wrightson’s I Own the Racecourse! in the Text Classics series. Kate Constable’s new introduction to this charming tale is reproduced below.
We recently republished Joan Phipson’s The Watcher in the Garden in the Text Classics series. Margo Lanagan’s new introduction to this complex and gripping novel for young adults is reproduced below.
The Watcher in the Garden surprised me.
