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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1923, when Scott Fitzgerald was 27, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, about his ambitions for his third novel. “I want to write something new – something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned,” he wrote. Two years later, that third novel was published, to mostly positive reviews.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Colum McCann is sitting in the study of his New York apartment, looking very relaxed, wearing one of his trademark scarves, waving his hands around as he speaks. “I know it looks like Ted Kaczynski’s cabin,” he says of the room, cluttered with books and posters and important bits of paper. Kaczynski, the Unabomber, used his cabin to plot acts of terrorism.
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4 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you like visiting bookshops, but don’t always have the time, there’s a big incentive to go next week. From Monday, April 21, book lovers in 16 countries are taking to the streets for the Global Book Crawl. It’s like a pub crawl, but with books instead of drinks.
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4 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you like visiting bookshops, but don’t always have the time, there’s a big incentive to go next week. From Monday, April 21, book lovers in 16 countries are taking to the streets for the Global Book Crawl. It’s like a pub crawl, but with books instead of drinks.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Jane Sullivan
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
By Jane E Sullivan April 13, 2025 — 5.26am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Christians worldwide will gather next weekend in darkness-shrouded churches, awaiting Holy Saturday vigil services. The vigil is held in the shadow of the crucifixion, between sunset on Saturday and sunrise on Easter Day. It portrays the movement from the dark despair of Christ’s death towards the brightness of Christ’s resurrection.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Read any strange books lately? Sometimes it seems that fiction is getting wackier and wackier. Bonkers books are not exactly new (Tristram Shandy? Naked Lunch? Finnegan’s Wake?), but publishers and booksellers are putting new labels on their titles to attract readers who just won’t settle for the same old, same old.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I’ve been following a pile-on, reading endless online threads and watching videos of young women bursting with righteous indignation. They are all upset about one person: Sophie Lark. Who is Sophie Lark? An independent sensation, a US bestselling author of romance fiction who was about to have her first novel out with a traditional publisher, Bloom Books. Not any more.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Jane Sullivan
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Jane Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “This is the most terrifying situation in the world I can think of in my adult lifetime,” said Tom Baldwin. “It’s going to cast a shadow over every single one of us.”I peered nervously through the tree canopy to the sunshine bathing Adelaide Writers’ Week. Where was that shadow?
