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I don’t look for happy endings in books. I hope for endings that are true. Roxane Gay talks with Ben Schrank about his novel Love Is a Canoe.
Endless rewriting: on the exhaustive, intricate and exhilarating editorial process of a first book.
The New York Times profiles Chinese dissident, poet and storyteller Liao Yiwu, currently living in exile in Germany. Mr Liao’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, will be released in Australia and New Zealand on 22 May.
The shortlist for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize has just been announced, and we’re delighted that Romy Ash’s Floundering and Chris Flynn’s A Tiger in Eden have made the cut.
The Commonwealth Book Prize is awarded annually to a debut novel by a Commonwealth citizen.
Helen Trinca’s new biography, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, was launched by Richard Walsh in Sydney last Saturday. His wonderful speech is below.
Towards the very end of her life, Madeleine St John saw herself not as an Australian novelist, but as an English novelist.
Watch Ramona Koval and Raimond Gaita discuss J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Childhood of Jesus.
What’s in a title, asks an author who had to change his.
The great Richard Nash on the business of literature and the future of the book.
The Rosie Project has just been released in the UK and has already captured the hearts and minds of the nation’s reviewers.
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The hero of The Rosie Project is one of those rare fictional characters destined to take up residence in the popular consciousness.
Tarantino films as Penguin-style book covers.
Back from the dead and taking selfies: classic authors on Instagram.
Hot on the news of their Goodreads acquisition, Amazon announces they have purchased English.
Listen to Helen Trinca discuss her new biography of Madeleine St John on ABC Classic FM.
12 non-Amazon-owned alternatives to Goodreads.
Look around your current writing workshop. Look right and left. Most of those people will stop writing.
Suddenly, it seems like gay characters are everywhere in YA literature. Or, if not everywhere, certainly in far more places and in a greater variety than ever before. On the state of LGBT characters in young adult fiction. (Read more
