NewsTalking to your characters won’t make you a psychopath, study says by Mia Montesin A study shows writers hear their characters talk back. 61% say they listen to them. Research from Durham University and the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
BooksFeatures‘Janis: Her Life and Music’: a celebration of rock’s first female superstar by Luke Saunders Around 1 a.m. on 4 Oct, 1970, Janis Joplin skin popped a dose of ‘China White’ heroin at Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel….
BooksFeaturesFlea’s pain-stricken memoir Acid for the Children is a moving journey by Luke Saunders Is Acid for the Children as good as Scar Tissue? No. It’s nothing like it. Flea is assuredly aware of the magnificence of Anthony Kiedis’…
ArtsNewsFiona Wright navigates the safety and discomfort of home in The World Was Whole by Molly Lasker Essayist, poet and critic Fiona Wright is one of Sydney’s seminal voices in creative non-fiction. Her works, simultaneously idiosyncratic and universally themed, detail the awkwardness…
NewsGonzo listening: Hunter S. Thompson lists his 10 favourite records of the “rock age” of the 1960s by Happy Hunter S. Thompson was no literary snob. In 1970, he wrote to Rolling Stone editor John Lombardo, “I resent your assumption that Music is Not My Bag,…
NewsThese are the biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years by Molly Lasker The team at Literary Hub have compiled a list of the bestsellers in adult fiction over the last 100 years via data collected from Publisher’s Weekly’s…
NewsA sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale set for release after 30 years by Molly Lasker Margaret Atwood, in a statement released on her Twitter account, has announced that she is currently writing a sequel to her much loved The Handmaid’s…
BooksNewsAfter some light winter reading? Brian Eno lists his top books for rebuilding civilisation by Bill Robinson Legendary artist and composer Brian Eno has shared a list of 59 book to build your intellectual world, and 20 books he believes would help…
