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‘It has the makings of the rare, palliative novel, to be visited and revisited, like a reassuring friend.’ Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black, reviewed.
Goodreads: where readers and authors battle it out in an online Lord of the Flies.
How the Japanese earthquake shook a novel to its core: on Ruth Ozeki’s Booker-shortlisted novel, A Tale for the Time Being.
In the digital age, what does it mean to own a book?
The Joy Is In the Struggle of Making: how writers get their ideas.
‘Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of,’ says the Economist, but there’s no need to remain in ignorance—her novels My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, the first two in a planned trilogy, are available now.
‘Glistens with precocious wisdom’: Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career reviewed in the Guardian.
Burying the Hatchet: the death of the negative book review.
There’s been a lot of coverage of Lloyd Jones' moving memoir about a family mystery and a devastated landscape, A History of Silence, which Peter Pierce calls ‘as strange, wilful and compelling as his fiction’.
Watch a video of Lloyd talking with the ABC’s Jane Hutcheon on Read more
Writing is ‘a form of prayer’: a Wall Street Journal blog interview with Ruth Ozeki, author of the Booker-shortlisted A Tale for the Time Being.
‘Don’t be afraid to write a bad book’: David Levithan talks to the Guardian about the process of writing Every Day.
Anna Holmes and Francine Prose discuss the most erotic books they’ve ever read.
“An editor does not add to a book,” he argued.
Writers of a certain vintage often fall into one of two camps: those whose creative powers are irrevocably on the wane and those who are at the height of their game. Margaret Drabble’s 18th novel, Read more
Here’s a great tutorial that shows you how to turn old books into a bookshelf boombox.
10 bizarre literary landmarks that everyone should visit.
BYRONIC HERO Super-cool cool guy.
CANON All the literature that’s fit to print.
To write a novel in which an extraordinary reality is possible in conjunction with ordinary life, in which people can actually fly away or become invisible (and not just want to do those things metaphorically), was an enormous pleasure. Maile Meloy is interviewed over at Read more
