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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.
15 gorgeously macabre book plates.
for a complete answer, message me your address and i will send you a 120-foot document of my thoughts: Jack Kerouac’s online dating profile.
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.
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Text Publishing is doing a giveaway for a terrific new Australian series—The Rephaim by Paula Weston—in Melbourne on Tuesday 21 May.
Hot-blooded bad boy Rafa—a black-winged half-angel—will be giving out copies of book one in the series, Read more
