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Friday Links

A beautiful outdoor public library/bookshop, created for the Belgian Art Festival.

The alter-egos of 10 famous writers.

A fun and practical DIY project: create a book cover for your wireless router.

Perfume that makes you smell like a new book.

A conversation with Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly

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Text and Cinema Nova present ‘Page to Picture'

A new series at Cinema Nova, ‘Page to Picture’, screens the film adaptations of some of the books featured in the recently released Text Classics list. The series kicks off on Wednesday 6 June with a screening of Read more

Friday links

How to open a new book.

Anyone care to join me in a Margarita Atwood?

Everyday words coined by famous authors. Praise be for Lewis Carroll—a world without the word ‘chortle’ is not a world I want to live in.

Les auteurs scandaleuses.

Geoff Dyer and Chris Flynn at the Sydney Writers’ Festival

The Sydney Writers' Centre made the most of the fact that many fantastic authors were in town for the Writers' Festival and got a terrific series of interviews, now up on their blog.

Cory Taylor is the regional winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize

The regional winners of the Commonwealth Book Prize were announced today, and our very own Cory Taylor has won in the Pacific Region for Read more

We’d like to thank the Academy

We had a great week last week, capped off by two wins at Friday night’s Australian Book Industry Awards.

Here’s Kate Grenville accepting her award for General Fiction Book of the Year for Sarah Thornhill.

Friday Links

‘Your’ vs ‘You’re’: baddest-ass rap battle ever? Probably not. Baddest-ass grammar lesson ever? Quite possibly.

Extremely silly photos of extremely serious writers. I want my bear suit back, Sontag. It was a loan!

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2012 APA Book Design Awards

The 2012 APA Book Design Awards were announced last night, and we’re delighted to report that brilliant designers Chong and Susan Miller received two awards for the design of Bernard Beckett’s August!

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Friday Links

A visual representation of the (apparently) 10 most read (well, sold) books in the world.

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