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Excerpts from Guy Debord's The Muppets.

19 magical bookshops.

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

Today, Elsewhere
Francis Plug Paul Ewen $29.99

My book wasn’t present, and its omission, due to an oversight some months before, was quite striking.

Today, Elsewhere
Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson $19.99

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.

Notes on fictional geography.

'A writer is someone who wasn't invited to the party': Read more

Today, Elsewhere
In Certain Circles Elizabeth Harrower $22.99

'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).

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The unusual work habits of great writers.

The 10 worst opening lines in literature (controversial).

'You are a young writer. Write.'

50 cultural icons on their favourite books.

The best cakes in literature.

13 little-known punctuation marks we should use more.

More press for Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride $22.99

'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.

Today, Elsewhere
Francis Plug Paul Ewen $29.99

'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?

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Stuff found in old books.

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

Today, Elsewhere
In Certain Circles Elizabeth Harrower $22.99

'Ms Harrower is one of the great Australian writers of the postwar era...Much like her chilling 1966 novel, The Watch Tower, [Read more

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If quotes from Bernard Black (of Black Books) were motivational posters.

'An incredulity of cuckolds', 'a misbelief of painters' and other excellent collective nouns.

11 Nintendo games based on classic works of literature.

Who your favourite author slept with, in Read more

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