Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, on ABC TV’s The Business, discussing the business of writing (from 19.40).
Literary confessions: what books have you not read?
‘His command of extravagant action and idiom never flags.’ Peter Pierce on Chris Flynn’s new novel, The Glass Kingdom, in the Australian.
This Atlantic piece will give you some useful background information on the Hachette/Amazon tussle.
Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, discuss his wins at the ABIA awards, the sequel to his international bestseller and the plans for the movie on ABC News Breakfast.
Why the short story is the perfect literary form for the 21st century.
‘This combination of extravagant talent, extreme subject matter, emotional intensity, and a radical and difficult style has led McBride to be generally regarded, since the publication of her novel, as the literary love child of two writers she is eager to acknowledge as
Chris Flynn’s second novel, The Glass Kingdom, is Book of the Month at Readings for June. Reviewing The Glass Kingdom for Readings, Alan Vaarwerk says, ‘Chris Flynn has a real flair for language…Smart and wryly funny, Read more
‘Tree Palace intelligently muses on the nature of human connections, to place and one another.’ Peter Pierce reviews Craig Sherborne’s new novel in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The case for Gerald Murnane’s The Plains as the great Australian novel.
‘Don’t ever do it for the money’: a conversation with a literary agent.
‘Sian Prior’s beautiful and confessional memoir, Shy, starts with her dismantling a bedroom mirror and removing it from her sight—not for the truth it tells, but the illusion it feeds.’ Sian Prior is profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read more
I’m not interested in irony and I’m not interested in clever. I’m interested in trying to dig out parts of human life that cannot be expressed in a straightforward way, that don’t fit neatly into the vocabulary and grammar that are available.
‘What would it be like to be the guy who punched Harry Houdini in the stomach?…Unless you believe the conspiracy theories, it was probably just some guy who thought it would be a funny, dumb-ass thing to do.’ Steven Galloway talks to the Globe and Mail about his new novel, Read more
