Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
Fox 2000 is planning to turn Go the F–k to Sleep into a feature film. (One that will not be rated G or PG, presumably.)
I don’t look for happy endings in books. I hope for endings that are true. Roxane Gay talks with Ben Schrank about his novel Love Is a Canoe.
Endless rewriting: on the exhaustive, intricate and exhilarating editorial process of a first book.
The New York Times profiles Chinese dissident, poet and storyteller Liao Yiwu, currently living in exile in Germany. Mr Liao’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, will be released in Australia and New Zealand on 22 May.
The hero of The Rosie Project is one of those rare fictional characters destined to take up residence in the popular consciousness.
Listen to Helen Trinca discuss her new biography of Madeleine St John on ABC Classic FM.
12 non-Amazon-owned alternatives to Goodreads.
Look around your current writing workshop. Look right and left. Most of those people will stop writing.
Suddenly, it seems like gay characters are everywhere in YA literature. Or, if not everywhere, certainly in far more places and in a greater variety than ever before. On the state of LGBT characters in young adult fiction. (Read more
The Wheeler Centre interviewed Helen Trinca, author of Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John.
Author Matt Haig on why authors should embrace Twitter. (Related: the 10 most prolific authors on Twitter.
Read about this amazing graffiti portrait of Raimond Gaita and the process of its creation.
The Californian Department of Education released a list of recommended reading that included some LGBT-themed books; what you’d expect to happen, happened.
Oscar Wilde’s advice to writers: don’t give up your day job.
Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, lists 30 things every writer should know.
25 turns, pivots and twists to complicate your story. (Warning: there be swears.
The Childhood of Jesus is April’s Monthly Book over at the Monthly and Ramona Koval has prepared notes. Read a great review by Peter Craven of J. M.
