Pity the poor author whose fate is determined by their opening paragraph.
Filed under: Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: Bill willingham, CLinton Caward, going Bovine, Libba Bray, Lionel Shriver, Love Machine, Matthew Flaming, Peter & Max Fables, So Much For That, The Kingdom of Ohio | 1 Comment »
Alex Miller, author of Lovesong, speaks about what moves him, that wonderful novel, and where he gets his inspiration from.
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The main reason for the ebbing of the memoir tide is ecological; we are running out of good true stories.
Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Book retailing trends, Booktopia, Non Fiction | Tagged: an American Childhood, Annie Dillard, Ben Yagoda, Growing Up, Mark Twain, Memoir: A History, Roughing It, Russell Baker | Leave a Comment »
Want to know when a book is seriously good? It is when a bookseller actually pays money to add it to their home collection. Enter Fairie-ality Style!
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Nam Le’s The Boat has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction.
Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes | Tagged: Nam Le, Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Boat | Leave a Comment »
