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Procrastination and pavlova

Procrastination and pavlova

While scouring the “interweb” for suitable snippets for my next Brisbane Courier Mail books column, I stumbled across this recipe for pavlova on the Book, Line & Sinker book-review site. I didn’t expect to see an antipoedean classic on a New...

Ron Charles spoof video on book apps

If you’re not familiar with the Totally Hip video series by Ron Charles, the Washington Post’s fiction critic, his most recent installment is the perfect introduction. In it, New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian makes a self-deprecating cameo...
The coming of The Couch

The coming of The Couch

Last week a couch came to my corner of Brooklyn, and I can quite honestly say it has transformed the humble apartment in which I sleep and write. Two lovely men transported the couch – a faux-velour job in a pale coffee color, inexcusably comfortable for the...

Conviction, typographically speaking

Just found Ronnie Bruce’s wonderful typographical animation of a poem by Taylor Mali over at Meanjin magazine’s Spike blog. As Mali himself says, I have no idea who he is (and he didn’t ask for permission), but what would you do when the result is so...

Writers on rewriting

This indiereader.com article is a really useful survey of published authors’ thoughts about revision and editing their own work. How encouraging to read that the bestselling Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air) regards his first drafts as “almost always...
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