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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.
Fox 2000 is planning to turn Go the F–k to Sleep into a feature film. (One that will not be rated G or PG, presumably.)
33 wonderful fan-designed covers for famous novels.
Jack London loved braiding men’s hair, and 99 other completely untrue literary rumours.
Quiz: Jay-Z lyric or line from The Great Gatsby?
I don’t look for happy endings in books. I hope for endings that are true. Roxane Gay talks with Ben Schrank about his novel Love Is a Canoe.
Endless rewriting: on the exhaustive, intricate and exhilarating editorial process of a first book.
The New York Times profiles Chinese dissident, poet and storyteller Liao Yiwu, currently living in exile in Germany. Mr Liao’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, will be released in Australia and New Zealand on 22 May.
The shortlist for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize has just been announced, and we’re delighted that Romy Ash’s Floundering and Chris Flynn’s A Tiger in Eden have made the cut.
The Commonwealth Book Prize is awarded annually to a debut novel by a Commonwealth citizen.
Helen Trinca’s new biography, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, was launched by Richard Walsh in Sydney last Saturday. His wonderful speech is below.
Towards the very end of her life, Madeleine St John saw herself not as an Australian novelist, but as an English novelist.
Watch Ramona Koval and Raimond Gaita discuss J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Childhood of Jesus.
What’s in a title, asks an author who had to change his.
The great Richard Nash on the business of literature and the future of the book.
The Rosie Project has just been released in the UK and has already captured the hearts and minds of the nation’s reviewers.
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The hero of The Rosie Project is one of those rare fictional characters destined to take up residence in the popular consciousness.
