Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
‘Fiction that matches the complexity of history’: Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman in the New York Review of Books.
Your book sucks: are authors being bullied by one-star Amazon reviews?
The neurological similarities between successful writers and the mentally ill.
‘Brutal and touching detail’: The Lost Child reviewed in the Guardian.
Lloyd Jones’s memoir, A History of Silence, is ‘a knockout…one of the bravest and best-written memoirs I have read’, says Nicholas Shakespeare in his five-star review in the Telegraph.
When lit becomes a science: culturomics and results-based reading.
Darrell Pitt on writing The Firebird Mystery: A Jack Mason Adventure, over at Readings.
New words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in March include beatboxer, bestie and c**ted.
Emrys Westacott: Why Amazon reminds me of the British Empire.
Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff, authors of No Mercy : True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality, in the Independent on our dark and bloody history of disaster.
‘Try to break them, every single one’: on the rules of writing.
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‘If you had to argue for the merits of one Australian book, one piece of writing, what would it be?’ The case for Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom.
Listen to David Vann, author of A Mile Down, talk about seafaring adventures on ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler.
‘Write characters who are both “very small and very tenacious; at once very frail and very heroic.”’ Read more
‘McCourt’s writing is assured and sinuous’: Belle Place reviews Suzanne McCourt’s The Lost Child for Readings.
10 common blog-writing mistakes: an infographic.
Is a writer obliged to present the world in a positive way—Read more
If you liked The Big Bang Theory, then you’ll love The Rosie Project! The Huffington Post offers 10 book recommendations based on your favourite TV shows. (Tip: you’ll love The Rosie Project, whatever your feelings about The Big Bang Theory.
Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the Monthly Book’s pick for this month. There’s a special purchase offer, plus Ramona Koval’s notes on the book and an interview with the author.
