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Listen to Marie Darrieussecq, author of All the Way and Tom Is Dead, on BBC Radio 4 (from 18:15).
‘I feared that taking medication to ease my anxiety and panic might destroy my urge or ability to create.’ On writing and mental illness.
‘Bird is a startling debut. A poetic mediation on grief, it will have you reeling from the very first line.’ Crystal Chan is interviewed by Hypable about her debut novel, Bird.
In praise of fantasy: why escaping reality is good for kids.
Rebecca Mead in the Guardian on her new book, The Road to Middlemarch, and what Middlemarch has offered her at different stages of her life.
Martin Amis, A. S. Byatt, Kathyrn Hughes and John Mullan also offer their thoughts on Read more
Vikki Wakefield’s Friday Brown has won the Young Adult Fiction category in the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
The ‘Trapped in the Closet’ writers' residency, the ‘Crate of a Large Sheepdog’ writers' residency and other possible writers' residencies.
Quiz: Which book came first?
My Grandfather’s Library: a tumblr for book lovers.
‘Women had their Eureka moment, too’: Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka reviewed in the Australian.
It’s okay, everyone, standard written English is not atrophying, the world is not ending, we can all buy hot chips.
‘An Unnecessary Woman is an utterly unique love poem to the book and to the tenacity of the feminine spirit,’ says the Los Angeles Times.
‘A skilled translator must bring her own creativity to the mix, for she is creating a parallel imaginative work’: Antony Shugaar, translator of Davide Enia’s On Earth as It Is in Heaven, on the rules of translation.
Listen to Margaret Drabble chat with Richard Fidler on ABC Radio.
The latest VIDA Count of women’s representations in media was released today, and there’s a piece on their blog about what it takes for a book by a woman to be considered a ‘classic’.
‘A beautifully observed contemplation of life’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the Guardian.
