Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
‘I definitely did not want Julius to be the usual hero,’ Hehir says.
Read an interview with Tim Hehir in the West Australian.
Julius and the Watchmaker launches tonight at Brunswick Bound.
Does great literature make us better people?
The ‘slash’: Read more
Why do you write poetry, Maria Takolander?
See also Maria’s last blog post over at Southerly on not being born to write.
Are apostrophes necessary? Matthew J. X. Malady thinks not.
Donald Barthelme’s syllabus: 81 books essential for a literary education.
‘Stay slim, don’t nag, have good sex…and cook tripe’: Marjorie Bligh, star of Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar, hits the UK.
‘You don’t get used to being in prison in a single day,’ says Echols, ‘and you don’t get used to being out of prison in a single day.’ Damien Echols talks to the Guardian about how he survived 18 years on death row.
10 thoughts to take from this year’s Sydney Writers' Festival, including some insights on language from Diego Marani, author of The Last of the Vostyachs and New Finnish Grammar.
The New Yorker asks: do you need to like the main character to like the book?
I love writing short stories because they are contained; you can just have that essence of a world, you don’t have to explain everything. An interview with Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Romy Ash about her first novel, Read more
Barry Humphries is set to join Guy Pearce and Marta Dusseldorp in the third Jack Irish telemovie for the ABC, Dead Point.
In praise of brilliant sentences and their preservation.
A bitter writer ‘revenge edits’ the Wikipedia pages of his rivals, Read more
The Text Classics edition of Elizabeth Harrower’s brilliant The Watch Tower is now on the shelves in North America. The Daily Beast picked it as a Hot Read, calling it ‘[a] fantastically incisive portrait of domestic cruelty’, and Kirkus interviewed the author.
The shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize has been announced!
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
The mystery of the epigraph to The Great Gatsby is solved.
Reading is a kind of death. One exits one’s life, is gone from the world. If my telephone rings, if my beloved calls out my name, I am no longer here. I don’t exist. Dead to the world. And reading erases the world.
On reading in general, and on reading Johanna Adorján’s Read more
