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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.
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?
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
Forty-One False Starts is a brilliant collection of essays from one of the world’s great writers of literary non-fiction.
What makes The Great Gatsby so great, anyway?
This Chemical Life: Auden, Sartre, Greene and other great writers who loved uppers.
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’.
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.
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.
