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Zane Lovitt, author of The Midnight Promise: A Detective’s Story in Ten Cases, went on tour to promote the US edition of his debut. Here are some great photos of the tour, with Zane’s comments.
This is at a sensational bookshop in Washington DC called Politics and Prose.
Liao offers neither a diagnosis of China’s ills nor prescriptions for their cure. He simply wants to describe the world as he sees it. Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, in the New York Times.
The crisis of book cover design.
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Listen to Gabriel Roth, author of The Unknowns, on the Bat Segundo show.
John Updike’s advice to young writers: ‘reserve an hour a day’.
Listen to Angela Savage discuss her third book in the Jayne Keeney PI series, The Dying Beach, on Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily.
Are You My Baby Daddy? and other Dirty Library titles we’d like to read.
Authors name their favourite first lines of books.
i need a peach
can it wait?
not really
there’s like
a bunch of mermaids here
and they definitely hate me
Texts from J Alfred Prufrock.
Listen to journalist and author Daniel Bergner on Life Matters discussing his new book, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Book covers, before and after: 4 designers discuss their recent covers and why some designs won out over other options.
The Telegraph called Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being ‘metafiction wrestling with grand themes’ and ‘a compelling coming-of-age story’.
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The layers of meaning and reference, autobiographical elements, vivid and poetic language, characterisation and satire in Frame’s second posthumously published novel In the Memorial Room show again why she is one of New Zealand’s literary greats. The Read more
Everything in this novel is about opposites—life and death, love and hate, good and evil, yin and yang—but nothing is black and white. Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle reviewed at Three Percent.
