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Yesterday we linked to a piece by literary agent Jonny Geller about what agents really want, in which he advised authors to ‘drill [their] story down to 10 words and build up’.

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How to keep computer screens from destroying your eyes.

Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown UK tells us what literary agents really want.

The origins of the concept of the Great American Novel.

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The best word ever?

The worst word ever?

…a disproportionate number of all idioms are nonsensical, or, at the very least, don’t parse. That’s why they’re idioms. Idioms delight.

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How to write a movie about a writer: or, why are movies so bad at portraying writers?

Should you organise books by colour? Sure, why not.

10. Hear what everyone has to say but don’t listen to anyone (except me). Etgar Keret’s ten rules for writers.

Friday Links

It’s time to knock off and enjoy a cocktail, matched with the appropriate novel.

Related: a brief history of booze and books.

‘A book should be used and reused. It has life, it has a message,’ he said. ‘As a book caretaker, you become a full man.’ Read more

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The opportunity that blogs continue to offer for long-form engagement with literature should not be denigrated, but celebrated. John Self counters Sir Peter Stothard’s claim that book bloggers are harming literature.

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‘If the mass of unargued opinion chokes off literary critics…then literature will be the lesser for it,’ he said. ‘There is a great deal of opinion online, and it’s probably reasonable opinion, but there is much less reasoned opinion.’ Read more

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Today is National Punctuation Day in the US, and to celebrate, the Atlantic has put together a collection of writers' favourite punctuation marks.

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A profile in the New York Times of Damien Echols, one of the infamous West Memphis Three and author of Life After Death, out Wednesday.

On literary events and the questions posed to authors.

This is your brain on Jane Austen.

The Real Australian Classics

In a panel discussion as part of the recent Melbourne Writers Festival, publisher Michael Heyward, Jane Gleeson-White, Ramona Koval, David McCooey and the Wheeler Centre’s Michael Williams considered: what is an Australian classic?

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