Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
Garry Disher talks to Linda Herrick at the New Zealand Herald about crime writing, growing up in South Australia, and the time he taught Chopper Read in a creative-writing class. Garry’s new novel, Bitter Wash Road, is available now in bookshops and online.
‘The best stories in The Double can be brutal yet remain achingly moving and painfully poignant; there are some outstanding, even breathtaking sentences and scenes in this book. Takolander is fluent in capturing moments of sudden grief, shame, intimacy and melancholy.’ Read more
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On unusable words: auto-antonyms, profanity and other tricksy language problems.
‘With its intricate narrative structure, use of multiple points of view and flashbacks, this is Savage’s most ambitious and accomplished crime novel to date.’ Sue Turnbull reviews Angela Savage’s The Dying Beach in the Age.
‘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.
‘Glistens with precocious wisdom’: Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career reviewed in the Guardian.
Burying the Hatchet: the death of the negative book review.
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
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
