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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.

Friday Links

15 gorgeously macabre book plates.

for a complete answer, message me your address and i will send you a 120-foot document of my thoughts: Jack Kerouac’s online dating profile.

Beautiful polaroids of books in unexpected places.

Today, Elsewhere

The things that scare you are the things that are going to dig deepest into your psyche as a writer. Krissy Kneen, Working with Words over at the The Wheeler Centre.

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Today, Elsewhere

Cats may be masters of the online world, but when it comes to literature, it’s all about the dog. (The picture above, of my cat proofreading, would suggest otherwise.)

This year’s book jacket fashions. Ugh, a close-up of women’s shoes is SO 2010.

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Want to be in a Text book trailer?

Did you love Shadows, book one in Paula Weston’s gripping paranormal series, The Rephaim?

If so—we need your help to make a fun book trailer.

Text Publishing is making a short video to celebrate the release of book two in the series, Read more

Calling all paranormal fiction fans!

Text Publishing is doing a giveaway for a terrific new Australian series—The Rephaim by Paula Weston—in Melbourne on Tuesday 21 May.

Hot-blooded bad boy Rafa—a black-winged half-angel—will be giving out copies of book one in the series, Read more

Today, Elsewhere

I know when I am writing erotica or literary fiction. I feel it in my body. Read an interview with Krissy Kneen, author of Steeplechase.

Granta’s just-announced list of the best young British novelists for 2013 includes Text authors Tahmima Anam and Steven Hall.

Today, Elsewhere

Fox 2000 is planning to turn Go the F–k to Sleep into a feature film. (One that will not be rated G or PG, presumably.)

Who exactly are the bad boys of literature?

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Friday Links

33 wonderful fan-designed covers for famous novels.

Jack London loved braiding men’s hair, and 99 other completely untrue literary rumours.

Quiz: Jay-Z lyric or line from The Great Gatsby?

7 pranks and tricks from classic literature.

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