Dymocks Books have launched a new author driven self-publishing arm, the D Publishing Network. Criticism has been widespread and Australian Literature Review editor Steve Rossiter, who spoke with Bethanie Blanchard, has been at the forefront of it.
Tis the season to be jolly -- and generous -- so if you're a writer, why not help other writers? Chuck Wendig from Terrible Minds lists 25 ways wordsmiths can share the love.
Christopher Hitchens was a well-known journalist, based in the US, and quite the bon vivant, or so I hear! He died last week. Perhaps some of you knew this already.
W H Chong presents his favourite podcasts of the year, which include Crikey's Canberra Calling, the BBC's World Book Club and The Guardian's Politics Weekly.
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire's Women of Letters seeks to revive 'the lost art of letter writing.' There are some funny and beautiful pieces in this collection from writers who have spoken at Women of Letters events, writes Bethanie Blanchard.
How does one write about grief? Joan Didion brings her own bad dreams to Blue Nights, a novel about her daughter's death described with such close detail it makes you wince, writes Bethanie Blanchard.
What do The Cat in the Hat, Scuffy the Tugboat and The Tale of Peter Rabbit have in common? They're all kids books, yes, and they're all listed in the top ten best-sellers of all time.
In this era of economic fogginess, at this transitional moment of reading and book-buying technology, a bookshop opening stuffed full of hundreds if not thousands of hungry readers is something of a miracle, writes W H Chong.
A modern retelling of the legend of Oedipus, featuring a character who spends 12 hours of lovemaking with his mother, took the top gong in the UK Literary Review's 2011 Bad Sex in Fiction Award, reports Emma Mustich.
This year has been a bad one for book retailers and, partly as a result, argues Band of Thebes, a bad one for LGBT books. Here is their survey of favourite queer reads sourced from over 90 authors.
