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The evolutionary case for great fiction: might reading literature help the survival of the species?
What exactly are we interested in when we’re interested in writers’ lives? And do we have the right to be?
Krissy Kneen on erotic fiction, literary censorship and Brisbane—a city that has embraced her writing but where you still can’t legally buy Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.
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The 20 stages of reading, illustrated.
Guess: Franzen gripe or YouTube comment about saggy pants?
We buy books. We buy more books than we could ever read. And that might be okay as long as we let those books live their lives. How to live with bibliophilia.
The result is more bibliophilia than bibliotherapy; an exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel. The Guardian recommends The Novel Cure to relieve emotional and physical pain.
Each character is beautifully drawn, with a rich interior life, starkly different from one another in their experiences, yet each with a curious ache in their hearts. What emerges is a delicate, complex, moving novel, one to withstand—demand even—an instant second reading.
‘Well worth reading’: Sumner Locke Elliott’s coming-out novel, Fairyland, ‘provides a vivid picture of “camp life” in Sydney in the 1930s and 40s, when homosexuality was illegal and therefore necessarily covert.’
James Patterson is giving $1 million to independent bookshops.
David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing is on the longlist for the 2013 National Book Awards in the Young People’s Literature category.
I don’t feel like myself if I don’t write. It’s my way of thinking, of making sense of the world. An interview with Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author Ruth Ozeki.
A response to Jennifer Weiner and a celebration of ‘Holy Crap’ novels.
24 photos that prove that cats take better bookshelfies than you.
Here lies Hannah Montana. Here lies a partier in the USA. Here lies “My girl, Miley.” Cormac McCarthy describes the music video for ‘Wrecking Ball’.
Niccolò Ammaniti’s latest novel to be translated into English, Let the Games Begin, is ‘a wonderfully ironic and entertaining book’, says the Independent.
Including the word ‘land’ in a book title seems to be the latest publishing fad.
