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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.
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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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The 20 stages of reading, illustrated.
Guess: Franzen gripe or YouTube comment about saggy pants?
We buy books. We buy more books than we could ever read. And that might be okay as long as we let those books live their lives. How to live with bibliophilia.
The result is more bibliophilia than bibliotherapy; an exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel. The Guardian recommends The Novel Cure to relieve emotional and physical pain.
Each character is beautifully drawn, with a rich interior life, starkly different from one another in their experiences, yet each with a curious ache in their hearts. What emerges is a delicate, complex, moving novel, one to withstand—demand even—an instant second reading.
‘Well worth reading’: Sumner Locke Elliott’s coming-out novel, Fairyland, ‘provides a vivid picture of “camp life” in Sydney in the 1930s and 40s, when homosexuality was illegal and therefore necessarily covert.’
James Patterson is giving $1 million to independent bookshops.
