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Are you super organised? Do you love working in a busy team and rolling up your sleeves to help others? Are you outgoing and friendly but calm in a crisis? If so, you might just be the perfect fit to join the Text team.

Today, Elsewhere

An interview in the Guardian with Ruth Ozeki, author of the brilliant A Tale for the Time Being, out now. Read some terrific reviews of A Tale for the Time Being in the Independent and the Washington Post.

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Today, Elsewhere

Listen to a special edition of the Guardian Books podcast from the Adelaide Festival, featuring publisher Michael Heyward on the Text Classics and Geordie Williamson on the demise of Australian lit.

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Friday Links

30 delicious-looking literary cakes.

Try to imagine a giraffe on roller skates slowly rolling toward the edge of a cliff. How to interpret your rejection letter.

The latest publishing gif tumblr: Intern in Publishing.

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The 2013 APA Book Design Awards shortlist

WH Chong’s beautiful cover for Murray Bail’s The Voyage has been shortlisted in the literary fiction category in this year’s APA Book Design Awards.

The winners in each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on 23 May during the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Today, Elsewhere

Behold, the Kindle of the sixteenth century.

A theory about why average novels are fodder for good movies while great books often fail on screen.

In praise of concision.

Today, Elsewhere

Daniel Pink explains why we’re all on the sales pitch.

200 years of Pride and Prejudice: readers share their memories of Jane Austen.

Publishing and its discontents, 1948 edition.

Text is Hiring

Text Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic publicist to join its energetic, highly effective publicity team. Duties include initiating and running publicity campaigns, media liaison, author caretaking, writing sales materials, and arranging and attending author events.

Today, Elsewhere

The Guardian asks: what’s your desert island Australian literary classic?

Alexander Nazaryan apologises to Keith Gessen and Nathaniel Rich for trashing their novels, admits he’s bitter at their success.

Today, Elsewhere

Coetzee hasn’t done anything as fine and beautifully executed as this since Disgrace. Andrew Riemer’s review of J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Childhood of Jesus.

Rose Tremain on how a particular smell inspired her to become a writer.

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