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32 votes
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Percival Everett can’t be pinned down
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When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson just negotiated higher audio royalties for all audiobooks on Audible
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Bobiverse book 5 (Not till we are lost) - coming Sept 5 2024
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How to subtitle your book so people will read it: Tajja Isen on balancing the demands of marketing with artistic vision
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Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books [against the wishes of the authors], and listing them for sale for more than $100 per book
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction in English before it was a thing
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Five of the best Terry Pratchett books and suggestions for how to read Pratchett's work
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Someone discovered a new pen name used (probably) by Louisa May Alcott in the 1850s
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Choose Your Own Adventure - 45 years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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Obituary for Terry Bisson (1942-2024)
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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Peter Watts on conscious ants and human hives
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Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza
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The Murderbot Diaries Book 7 - System Collapse just got released
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Has it ever been harder to make a living as an author in the Anglosphere?
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UnbanCoolies interview with Ashley Hope Peréz, author of Out of Darkness
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How John Steinbeck tricked his kids into reading great books
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Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’
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Palestinian voices ‘shut down’ at Frankfurt Book Fair, say authors
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Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022 - describes it as 'an attempt to answer violence with art’
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Video interview - science fiction author - Lois McMaster Bujold who wrote the award winning Vorkosigan series, the Curse of Challion and sequels and more
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Robots are people, too: On the ways writers use non-human characters to tell human stories
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Swedish crime novelist Camilla Läckberg has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn't write herself
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In his novels and plays, the Norwegian author Jon Fosse has continually probed the limits of the perceptible world
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The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård, review – long-lost siblings are linked across time and space in this expansive novel
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A second, silent language: A conversation with Jon Fosse
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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania children's author writes a book titled 'Banned Book', discusses censorship
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Interview with Martha Wells about Murderbot and more
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Octavia Butler’s advice on writing, found in recently published Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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Every country’s highest-rated book by a local author - based on GoodReads data May 2023
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Why 'The Hobbit' is still underappreciated, eighty-six years later: A Culture Re-View
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Strike and Robin return – but JK Rowling really needs an editor
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A publisher published a book on educational technology generated by AI. Authors of a cited source found plagiarism
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Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown reignites debate over ghostwritten celebrity books
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Olga Ravn on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged ten
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‘It's time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’ – Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequel
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Terry Pratchett was fantasy fiction’s Kurt Vonnegut, not its Douglas Adams
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Literature Map: The more people like an author and another author, the closer together they move
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Early California woman mystery writer: the life and times of Lange Lewis
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Tim O'Brien, author of the Things They Carried, announces new book America Fantastica
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The Summer Book (1972) – Tove Jansson's novel about love, family and nature, will make you nostalgic for your own childhood
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Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Interview with Colson Whitehead: ‘A city summons you into its weird drama’
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Ann Patchett talks about her new book, running a bookshop, and resisting censorship
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Sex education book 'Welcome to Sex' is a best-seller, but has been pulled off one Australian retailer's shelves after a conservative backlash, including death threats against one of the authors
‘Taking a leaf out of Trumpism’: Yumi Stynes on the ‘misguided’ backlash to sex book The book has been criticised by campaigners including Rachael Wong, the chief executive of Women’s Forum...
The book has been criticised by campaigners including Rachael Wong, the chief executive of Women’s Forum Australia, an organisation critical of pro-trans activism. Speaking to 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Tuesday, Wong called it a “graphic sex guide for children”, adding that she felt “physically ill at the thought of children reading it”. Other conservative media figures have amplified the criticism.
“This book was a response to genuine questions asked by adolescents to [magazine column] ‘Dolly Doctor’ for more than 20 years. [Dr Melissa Kang, one of the co-writers], was exposed to what kids were too ashamed to ask anyone else.”
Critics have taken particular issue with small sections of the book that address inclusive sexual practices beyond penetrative sex, including “fingering”, “oral sex”, “scissoring”, and “anal sex”.
They are also critical of the inclusion of what they term “gender ideology”. Others are accusing the authors of “grooming” children – a term that is increasingly misused.
The backlash has been so intense Big W stopped selling the book in-store after staff members were abused, although the retailer has defended it and it remains available online.
"I've seen people saying to me 'I want to kill you' or 'You should die'," Stynes told SBS News.
72 votes