Number 3 chiller
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.
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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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
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.
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.)
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?
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.
