Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
'Saying almost anything as well as you can say it, or doing anything properly and with your whole being, is a political act.' Jesse Ball, author of Silence Once Begun, interviewed for the Paris Review blog.
'Good on ya, Macca!': Paul McNamee's Game Changer reviewed in the New York Journal of Books.
‘This book is no polemic: it’s a gripping and visceral tale.’ Mark Rubbo, Managing Director of Readings, on Sophie Cunningham’s Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.
‘For fans of thrillers such as Gone Girl, this should be the summer’s essential reading’: Anita Sethi in the Guardian on Herman Koch’s new novel, Summer House with Swimming Pool.
‘The most fun I’ve had in a long time’: Chris Somerville at Readings on reading Nic Low’s debut, Arms Race (out today!).
Why are writers opening up about money (or the lack thereof)?
Javier Marias: ‘There are seven reasons not to write novels (and one to write them).
Watch a great video of Clare Wright reading from and discussing her Stella Prize–winning book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka.
‘Exhilarating fiction from a voice to watch’: Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing reviewed in Kirkus Reviews.
7 things writers can learn from stand-up comedians.
Listen to Damien Echols talk about his new book, Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row, co-written with wife Lorri Davis, on Fox FM.
‘Satirical but sweet at the same time, it’s a dazzling debut.’ The Daily Mail recommends Marianne Kavanagh’s For Once in My Life.
