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Today, Elsewhere

Maria Takolander is blogging for Southerly this month. Read her first (hilarious) post here. Takolander’s collection of stories, The Double, will be published by Text in September.

Author Maureen Johnson is sick of gendered book covers.

Jayne Keeney, meet Angela Savage: the author on the heroine of her new novel, The Dying Beach

At the 2012 Crime and Justice Festival in Melbourne, Rochelle Jackson asked crime writer Ian Rankin what his detective character Inspector John Rebus would think of him.

‘I don’t think he’d like me,’ Rankin said. ‘He’d think I was too much of a liberal.

Today, Elsewhere

After 19 years on death row, Damien Echols is starting to build a life in Salem, Massachusetts.

New research tells us that reading for pleasure as a teen is the most important indicator for future success—so how do you instil a love of reading?

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Today, Elsewhere

Watch a video interview with Romy Ash, whose debut novel, Floundering, is on the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.

What writers can learn from rock stars.

It’s like throwing a Lolita-themed children’s birthday party. Read more

Fantastic press for Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts

Forty-One False Starts is a brilliant collection of essays from one of the world’s great writers of literary non-fiction.

Today, Elsewhere

What makes The Great Gatsby so great, anyway?

This Chemical Life: Auden, Sartre, Greene and other great writers who loved uppers.

Wikipedia has a women problem.

There’s still time to be in a Text trailer!

We’ve extended the deadline to register your interest to be part of a short video to celebrate the release of book two in the Rephaim series, Haze.

Email shalini.kunahlan@textpublishing.com.

Today, Elsewhere

For St John, words were about keeping the darkness at bay. Trinca treats this aspect of the life with great acuity. Lucy Sussex on Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John in the Sydney Review of Books.

Stephen King was right. Books are ‘portable magic’.

Today, Elsewhere

Florence Williams has just won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Science and Technology category for her book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. She explains her obsession with breasts here.

List of hot women writers serves absolutely no purpose, offends everyone.

Text Awards

This month has seen Text books and authors garner a staggering number of awards, shortlistings and longlistings. See the full list below. Congratulations to all!

Toni Jordan’s Nine Days was named Best Fiction book at the 2013 Independent Booksellers of Australia Awards.

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