Number 3 chiller
With us today is Brandie Perez, 19, wrapped in a skull-print scarf and visiting from Florida to meet her ‘hero.’ I bring up his robust, often poetic Twitter feed, where he affectionately addresses his followers as chupacabras. They’re generous: ‘I get so much stuff: crystals.
A great piece on Patrick White, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
What’s the difference between an em dash and an en dash? (I’m sure I’ll come up with the perfect punchline as soon as I hit ‘publish’ on this post.
The closing date for submissions for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been extended from Friday 29 March to Wednesday 3 April.
We’ll be accepting entries from 4 March. Learn more about the Text Prize and download the entry form here.
This is our last post of the year. Thanks for reading! Best wishes to all of you and your families for the festive season.
‘I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries’ and other self-deprecating quotes from famous authors.
How do they stay in place? Witchcraft?
It was Jane Austen’s birthday on Sunday! What did you get her?
Here are five feminist footnotes to Austen’s work.
Mr Darcy: still dreamy after all these years. Read more
One of the characters of the forthcoming The Rosie Project—the lobster—visited the Text office today. Follow his adventures here.
The sexiest book covers of all time? Then why isn’t this on here?
How to care for old or valuable books.
On grammar pedantry, and how it diminishes the work that editors do.
Dirda’s haul had become unwieldy.
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina shelved in the ‘Emerging Authors’ section at Target. You heard it here first: this young man will go far.
Indie bookseller Ben McNally on how to attend a book launch.
The Atlantic Wire picks the best typos, mistakes and corrections of 2012.
‘Not writing is your alligator’: an open letter to a very young writer from a not-much-older writer.
10 indisputable signs that you’re a writer.
‘Keep at it’, ‘take your time’, and other advice on how to get published.
