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Here’s Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson posing with a beautiful new Text Classics bag, which just arrived in the office.
A skirt made out of books. There’s a total of 20,000 pages here, each folded by hand. Suffer for fashion, indeed.
The greatest books of all time, quantified and ranked, a process that subjective art really calls out for, right?
Amazing book art by Brian Dettmer.
Favourite books of famous authors.
Hemingway’s childhood home is for sale.
‘You can aspire to be a published author. Or a bestselling author. Or a professional freelance writer.
‘Australian Literature 101 is the university education in Australian literature you never had’, says the Wheeler Centre in promoting their new series of talks on classic Australian works.
Ramona Koval hosts Read more
‘Got my book out / I’m reading for fun / laughing out loud again / yeeeeaaaah / readin’ in the USA'
We know graphology is a pseudo-science at best, but Borges' penmanship still creeps me out: analysing writers' personalities from their handwriting.
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A Text bag appreciates some art in Paris.
‘I wish I could say I was in a bar fight,’ confessed Sorkin, ‘but I broke my nose writing.’ Seven strange writing rituals of famous authors.
We had the legendary bad boys of literature, now it’s time to make way for the ladies.
Romy Ash, author of the upcoming Floundering, was at a photoshoot today for Australian Women’s Weekly. Romy will be featured in their March issue, in a special on ‘faces to watch’ in 2012.
