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Read this, says Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus, of Robin Sloan’s Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Let’s all chip in and buy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s house.
A rave review for Alyssa Brugman’s Alex As Well, plus an interview with the author, at Alpha Reader.
25 hard truths about writing and publishing.
200 years of Pride and Prejudice, in pictures.
Literary editor of The Age Jason Steger profiles Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project (out tomorrow).
‘Prolific doesn’t mean good’ and other gentle reminders about writing.
As part of the launch of the Text Classics in the UK, BBC Radio 4’s Mariella Frostrup spoke to Thomas Keneally, Geordie Williamson and Carmen Callil about the Text Classics, Australian literature and cultural identity.
Listen to them discuss works by Henry Handel Richardson, Read more
10 excellent reasons to date a bookworm.
When good authors give bad writing advice.
Shteyngart Blurbs: A Documentary.
‘A neverthriving of jugglers’ and other fun collective nouns.
Looking for a way to waste the afternoon? Here’s an oddly addictive Read more
A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. Vladimir Nabokov on what makes a good reader.
Fascinating: literary agent Jennifer Udden (@suddenlyjen) live-tweeted her slush pile reading. Check out her responses at Read more
The long scene of Emily and Eli being counseled by Peter Herman is as well-wrought, honest, and un-sentimental depiction of a couple working through their issues as I’ve ever read. Ben Schrank’s Love Is a Canoe reviewed on The Rumpus.
Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, on how writing saved his life.
Read an interview on The Rumpus with Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians, the publishing power couple behind Melville House.
It’s been two centuries since the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and Helen Garner has a date with Darcy.
And I realized I don’t want to get in the habit of ‘checklist reading'—paging through an old book for no other reason than to say I’ve read it.
