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Lots of US press for Herman Koch’s The Dinner!
An interview with Herman Koch on CBS News.
A review of The Dinner in USA Today.
The Daily Beast asks: can Herman Koch’s The Dinner take America by storm?
Another moving, brilliant interview with Damien Echols, author of Life After Death, on Sunday Night Safran. West of Memphis, the Peter Jackson–produced documentary about the West Memphis Three, is out in Australia on Thursday.
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.
What mode of communication should you use? Consult this handy flowchart for the answer.
10 movies that make writing out to look incredibly dangerous (and not a one about the perils of paper cuts).
Sylvia Plathypus and other literary puns, illustrated.
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.
