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Friday Links

Drunk texts from famous authors, at the Paris Review.

Gatsby dies. Boo comes to the rescue. Anna throws herself on the tracks. Don’t click this link if you hate spoilers.

An instructive video on how to survive life as a character in a bad work of fiction.

Friday Links

Breathtaking book sculptures by Guy Laramee.

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Hello, Scarlett

what r u doing

Still in jail, I’m afraid

UGH

Texts from Scarlett O'Hara.

I might actually go camping if I could have one of these.

Medieval illuminated manuscript cookies are almost too pretty to eat.

Have you read The Vanishing Act yet?

This beautiful story about a young girl, a snowy island, and the meaning of love, published by us last year, was one of the hottest books at the recent BookExpo America, with booksellers and readers alike eagerly anticipating its US publication in September.

Friday Links

A beautiful outdoor public library/bookshop, created for the Belgian Art Festival.

The alter-egos of 10 famous writers.

A fun and practical DIY project: create a book cover for your wireless router.

Perfume that makes you smell like a new book.

A conversation with Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly

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Text and Cinema Nova present ‘Page to Picture'

A new series at Cinema Nova, ‘Page to Picture’, screens the film adaptations of some of the books featured in the recently released Text Classics list. The series kicks off on Wednesday 6 June with a screening of Read more

Friday links

How to open a new book.

Anyone care to join me in a Margarita Atwood?

Everyday words coined by famous authors. Praise be for Lewis Carroll—a world without the word ‘chortle’ is not a world I want to live in.

Les auteurs scandaleuses.

Geoff Dyer and Chris Flynn at the Sydney Writers’ Festival

The Sydney Writers' Centre made the most of the fact that many fantastic authors were in town for the Writers' Festival and got a terrific series of interviews, now up on their blog.

Cory Taylor is the regional winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize

The regional winners of the Commonwealth Book Prize were announced today, and our very own Cory Taylor has won in the Pacific Region for Read more

We’d like to thank the Academy

We had a great week last week, capped off by two wins at Friday night’s Australian Book Industry Awards.

Here’s Kate Grenville accepting her award for General Fiction Book of the Year for Sarah Thornhill.

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