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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.
…Diana Sweeney, author of The Minnow (formerly Flood Damage), the story of a young girl struggling to find her way after a devastating flood claims the lives of her sisters and parents.
‘Stay slim, don’t nag, have good sex…and cook tripe’: Marjorie Bligh, star of Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar, hits the UK.
‘You don’t get used to being in prison in a single day,’ says Echols, ‘and you don’t get used to being out of prison in a single day.’ Damien Echols talks to the Guardian about how he survived 18 years on death row.
