Michael W. Clune is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. He is the author of a memoir titled White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin and of two scholarly books, American Literature in the Free Market and Writing Against Time.

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There is a saying about the British Broadcasting Corporation that it has inspired no great novel because nobody with the talent to write one has stayed long enough to do the necessary research.

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If you know what an invoice is, are an Excel gun and can use MYOB, Text Publishing is looking for you for the part-time role of Finance Assistant.

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Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most eminent writers, a winner of the Patrick White Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

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There’s nothing like the buzz of Melbourne during a festival. And yes, while that may be every other week in our city, there is something special about the enthusiasm and energy of the annual Melbourne Writers Festival.

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More than thirty years ago, with the aim of introducing the works of foreign writers to an Italian audience, Sandra Ozzola and her husband, Sandro Ferri, launched their prestigious independent publishing house, Edizioni E/O, in Rome.

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This month we’re excited to be publishing no less than five Randolph Stow novels in the Text Classics series, all with new companion essays.

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More great prize news this weekend with the announcement of the 2015 Neddies—the Ned Kelly Awards—Australia’s most prestigious prizes honouring crime fiction and true-crime writing. Special guest of the evening was S. J.

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From left: Diana Sweeney, Jane Pearson and Simon Barnard celebrating at Text.

We’re thrilled that two Text titles are in the winners’ circle for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of the Year Awards.

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Eka Kurniawan may be a new face in world literature, but his epic novel Beauty Is a Wound would suggest an old pro at work.

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