Print isn't dead yet. At least, not when it comes to interior decorating. Interior designers and book dealers needed to fill gigantic personal libraries and shelf space are using tricky techniques to fill space -- like covering old John Grisham novels in white paper -- and hawking off 'books-by-the-foot'.
A new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is being released for school children with all 251 incidences of the word 'nigger' being replaced with 'slave'. Cord Jefferson offers three shining examples of why this idea is fundamentally flawed.
Angela Meyer, of Crikey's book blog Literary Minded looks back at the year that was, from speaking at writers' festivals, to publishing articles in magazines and commissioning guest book reviews via Twitter.
Katherine Dunn's cult classic novel, a National Book Award finalist in 1989, is an inventively told story of a carnival of freaks family narrated by an emotional hunchbakced albino dwarf. With moments of laughter, horror and knowing, it is a rich and rewarding read, writes Angela Meyer.
What visual arts did your eyes soak up this year? What were your highlights? W H Chong rewinds 2010 and lists the best visual treats - among them films The Winter's Bone and Toy Story 3 and arts books The Sight of Death and Painted Truths.
The book industry has suddenly entered its own strange zone, a state of imminent crisis as it slips from brute pulp to the ethereal electronic. As Malcolm Fraser predicted, Life wasn’t meant to be e-asy. W H Chong presents some books that have found long term storage in his biosoftware in 2010.
If you’re an author, publicist, small publisher or someone else trying to get your book/s to an intermediary who may influence sales or opinion there are certain techniques you can employ to increase your likelihood. Crikey book blogger Angela Meyer compiles a list of tips.
In the wake of #twitdef, The Australian no longer deserves university funding for the Australian Literary Review, writes Ben Eltham in his weekly arts column My Cup of Tea.
On Sunday, December 12, the Sun Herald printed an article that falsely claims that i have broken my silence "for the first time". At no time did I agree to an interview with the Sun Herald. At this time I have still never given an interview to any media, writes former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
Comprised of 24 character cameos, this quirk-laden book is authored in simple poetical verse and illustrated in Tim Burton’s distinctive Edward Gorey-via-Quentin Blake linework. Like the best of his film work, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories finds universality through idiosyncrasy, writes Gerard Elson.
