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Damien Echols talks to Salon about how death row prepared him for his new life.
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed following the NSA data collection scandal. Here, some more examples of current events influencing book sales.
Watch a short film based on Diego Marani’s The Last of the Vostyachs.
The Sydney Morning Herald says the author’s latest novel ‘shows his extraordinary skills and erudition’; Lisa Hill calls it ‘a work of comic genius’.
Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly, offers a DIY guide to creative book marketing.
25 things to know about sexism and misogyny in writing and publishing.
Related: an infographic of the gender balance of UK literary culture.
Professor Chris Turney, author of 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, is leading an expedition of researchers to Antarctica to follow in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Learn more about this exciting adventure here.
Star Wars as pulp fiction. Yes, they all have sexy Leia on the cover.
Charles Dicken’s life as recounted by the Smiths (or a pretty good approximation of them).
‘I definitely did not want Julius to be the usual hero,’ Hehir says.
Read an interview with Tim Hehir in the West Australian.
Julius and the Watchmaker launches tonight at Brunswick Bound.
Does great literature make us better people?
The ‘slash’: Read more
Why do you write poetry, Maria Takolander?
See also Maria’s last blog post over at Southerly on not being born to write.
Are apostrophes necessary? Matthew J. X. Malady thinks not.
Donald Barthelme’s syllabus: 81 books essential for a literary education.
Spend some time on Twitter watching the cool writers talk to each other. Take note of the inside jokes you are not a part of and, let’s face it, most likely will never be. 10 ways to torture yourself as a writer.
