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‘This is an impressive and scarily assured debut—and really funny.’ Gabriel Roth’s The Unknowns reviewed in the Guardian.
Covering Up: two designers (including our very own W. H. Chong) on the business of book covers.
Want to write better? Watch Columbo.
‘Ultimately, The Full Ridiculous is a story about a family’s love and durability.’ The Australian reviews Mark Lamprell’s funny and compelling novel about love, family and the precarious business of being a man. See pictures from the book launch here.
Three generations of men hunt for deer on Goat Mountain. One hot autumn day, grandfather, son and grandson discover a poacher on their land. The eleven-year-old studies the poacher through the scope of his father’s rifle—and pulls the trigger.
30 excellent bookshop windows from around the world.
33 hilariously terrible first sentences.
James Joyce wrote lying on his stomach in bed, with a large blue pencil, clad in a white coat, and composed most of Finnegans Wake with crayon pieces on cardboard. Read more
Listen to Patricia Edgar, author of In Praise of Ageing, discuss ageing policy and the pleasures of a long, productive life on 612 ABC Brisbane.
Text Publishing is sad to report that the celebrated Tasmanian author Mrs Marjorie Bligh has died, aged 96.
Bligh, who was born in Ross and lived the last part of her life in Devonport, was a homemaker extraordinaire and an inspiration to Dame Edna Everage.
In Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, a games interface developer is confronted by the possibility that the military will use his software to create user-friendly weapons technology. It is a conflict some in the gaming industry are desperate to avoid.
The Climate Council is a non-profit independent organisation that aims to provide clear, independent advice to the Australian community.
The evolutionary case for great fiction: might reading literature help the survival of the species?
What exactly are we interested in when we’re interested in writers’ lives? And do we have the right to be?
Krissy Kneen on erotic fiction, literary censorship and Brisbane—a city that has embraced her writing but where you still can’t legally buy Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.
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