Number 3 chiller
…a disproportionate number of all idioms are nonsensical, or, at the very least, don’t parse. That’s why they’re idioms. Idioms delight.
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.
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
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.
‘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
Today is National Punctuation Day in the US, and to celebrate, the Atlantic has put together a collection of writers' favourite punctuation marks.
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.
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?
We are not recommending this particular path to literary success, but here are ten famous authors who dropped out of school.
