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‘His command of extravagant action and idiom never flags.’ Peter Pierce on Chris Flynn’s new novel, The Glass Kingdom, in the Australian.
This Atlantic piece will give you some useful background information on the Hachette/Amazon tussle.
10 writers and their favourite drinks.
Men can be muses, too, you know.
The novel is dead, apparently, so it should probably have an epitaph or two.
John Green tells us 47 charming facts about children’s books.
Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, discuss his wins at the ABIA awards, the sequel to his international bestseller and the plans for the movie on ABC News Breakfast.
Why the short story is the perfect literary form for the 21st century.
Geoff Dyer experienced one of the most unusual literary residencies we’ve heard of—he got to spend time on the aircraft carrier USS George H. W.
‘This combination of extravagant talent, extreme subject matter, emotional intensity, and a radical and difficult style has led McBride to be generally regarded, since the publication of her novel, as the literary love child of two writers she is eager to acknowledge as
Chris Flynn’s second novel, The Glass Kingdom, is Book of the Month at Readings for June. Reviewing The Glass Kingdom for Readings, Alan Vaarwerk says, ‘Chris Flynn has a real flair for language…Smart and wryly funny, Read more
‘Tree Palace intelligently muses on the nature of human connections, to place and one another.’ Peter Pierce reviews Craig Sherborne’s new novel in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The case for Gerald Murnane’s The Plains as the great Australian novel.
‘Don’t ever do it for the money’: a conversation with a literary agent.
‘Sian Prior’s beautiful and confessional memoir, Shy, starts with her dismantling a bedroom mirror and removing it from her sight—not for the truth it tells, but the illusion it feeds.’ Sian Prior is profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read more
