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Today, Elsewhere

Jay Griffiths on forests of the mind.

21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels, some more successfully than others.

So be straight and white and male and old, maybe grow a big bushy beard.

Friday Links

24 terrible books for women.

Take a ride on the world’s largest floating bookstore. (Question: do you have to pay tax in international waters?)

The 10 most-mentioned songs in books.

English is Not Easy: a beautiful and quirky illustrated guide to the English language.

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Today, Elsewhere

However, one increasingly pressing question is being asked by today’s twitterati: is this brevity, which has long been practiced—and which Shakespeare famously argues is the soul of wit—now being imposed upon writers by Twitter? Read more

Today, Elsewhere

Cory Doctorow argues that giving book buyers the chance to pay what they think is right works.

It’s so easy to mock Blockhead—misreading, misquoting, just plain misunderstanding, but passionately exclaiming his complaint all the same. The novels of F.

Today, Elsewhere

Want to be a writer? New research suggests it would help if you have literary parents.

The Business of eBooks

Aptara has created an infographic based on the data collected from a survey of publishers, which explores the world of digital publishing and offers insight into the way the marketplace is changing. The statistics are interesting.

Today, Elsewhere

Peter Temple’s Jack Irish, as played by Guy Pearce, is about to screen on ABC TV. Read about the filming experience here.

What books have you stolen?

Njabulo S. Ndebele’s keynote speech at Open Book Cape Town posed the question: Read more

Friday Links

An illustrated origin story of the book.

1. Read the first seven pages and the last seven pages. Seven ways to fake it at book club.

Your favourite TV shows imagined as YA books.

2. ANGER: ‘There are four people at my signing, Mr.

Today, Elsewhere

‘Cool’ is a word you hear a lot in conversation with Mr. Sloan. It’s also a word that pops up often in his first novel, Read more

10wordbooks on Twitter

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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