Number 3 chiller
The creepiest children of literature.
I will make time for reading, the way I make time for meals, or brushing my teeth. I will make an effort to carry a book with me at all times.A manifesto for reading.
Excerpts from Guy Debord's The Muppets.
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis isn’t native advertising for Orkin Pest Control. But what if it was?
Sometimes I feel so liminal I think I’m going to explode. Read more
S. J. Watson on what it's like to have your book turned into a Hollywood film. Before I Go to Sleep is out in Australian cinemas from tomorrow.
'A writer is someone who wasn't invited to the party': Read more
'Harrower’s writing is witty, desolate, truth-seeking, and complexly polished.' James Wood on Elizabeth Harrower in the New Yorker.
The pleasure of reading difficult novels (and maybe The Goldfinch).
'To read the opening paragraph of Eimear McBride’s novel A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is to be radically disoriented,' says the LA Review of Books.
'Francis Plug is the funniest book I've read in ages': Paul Ewen's novel Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author reviewed in The Sunday Times.
What separates the books we talk about from those we don't talk about?
10 of the weirdest invented languages in literature.
Obviously, non-sequitur segue. Utter misinterpretation of the only other author researched for this paper. Blind search for evidence reflecting increasing desperation (authors 4, 5, and 6). Read more
'Ms Harrower is one of the great Australian writers of the postwar era...Much like her chilling 1966 novel, The Watch Tower, [Read more
