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‘I’ve been very lucky. Five suicides and a murder and growing up in beautiful places. You couldn’t have hoped for anything better for writing.’ David Vann on life and landscape.
Scientists find the secret formula for writing a bestselling novel. (Handy tip: use fewer adverbs.
PUBLICIST/ SENIOR PUBLICIST — Text Publishing, Melbourne
Text Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic publicist/senior publicist to join its energetic, highly effective publicity team.
Books that sizzle: The Conversation considers summer in relation to Australian literature, and looks forward to upcoming releases including Suzanne McCourt’s The Lost Child and Stephen Orr’s One Boy Missing.
Appropriate on such a scorcher of a day: Read more
It’s set to reach 43 degrees celsius in Melbourne today, and the rest of the country isn’t faring much better. So if you can, we recommend sitting in a cooled room with a cold drink and one of these chilly titles.
The Rosie Project was the most requested book last year at ACT libraries, according to the Age.
Just Say No: an argument for straight-forward rejection letters.
Are you a writer? Read more
Laurie Halse Anderson’s latest novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, is ‘a riveting study of a psychologically scarred teenager, peeling back layers of internal defenses to reveal a girl’s deepest wounds,’ says Publishers Weekly.
The Text office will be closed from the afternoon of 24 December 2013, reopening on 6 January 2014.
In the meantime, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.
This is our last #fridayfrivolity of the year. We’ll revel in literary oddities again in 2014. Have a safe and happy holiday!
14 places to talk to a stranger about books.
‘David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system’: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, reviewed.
In praise of little books: a nod to the internet’s ‘too long; didn’t read’ syndrome.
