1-April-08

Sebastian Faulks, Kevin Rudd... Michael Williams, the new RRR Breakfaster

Consider the Lobster: David Foster Wallace

University of Manchester: Centre for New Writing events

Ayelet Waldman: Dividing the man from his mother

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Queen's Birthday weekend

Emma and Ken before everything: Fortunes of War

31-March-08

Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man: Barbara Jefferis award win

It's Not You, It's Your Books: New York Times

Mac-fixing well into the night: AppleAnt... phew

Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else

Guardian blog: peer slush-pile review

28-March-08

Critics: Fry & Laurie

27-March-08

Drusilla Modjeska, in an earlyish Monthly

Reply: Bob Sessions

Shakespeare Master Class: Fry & Laurie

Tom Wolfe's Stalking the Big-Footed Beast (1989; PDF)

Paper Cuts: Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing

26-March-08

The Paris Review Interviews volume 2

Josh Kinal

Mitchell & Webb on publishing

Green & Black's organic chocolate

Sophie Cunningham now heading up Meanjin

Radio City – The First 30 Years of RRR

Publishers: Puncher & Wattmann

Jazz Lives / Jazz Kills @ Bennetts Lane, 9.30 tomorrow

25-March-08

Vignette Press's Mini Shots

Susan Fromberg Shaeffer's The Madness of a Seduced Woman

Be Kind Rewind

Paul Oslo Davis

John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces

Messing around with the Famous Five

David Marr: Where are the Ridgy-Didge Artists?

Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

The Book Grocer

24-March-08

All-time Top 20: My Sister Eileen, Ruth McKenney

Book Lamp – potentially intriguing

Hari Kunzru's New Yorker story: Raj, Bohemian

Back to Booktown: May 3-4, Clunes

Voiceworks launch this Friday

Delia Falconer, new story editor for Black Inc's Best ofs

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The Emerging Writers' Festival in May

Ongoing Booker judging discussion

Eileen Myles's Believer essay: lost notebook

20-March-08

Eddie Perfect's Warnie, with my sis in the band

The new issue of Overland and their callout for novels

Grace Goodfellow winning the national Somerset Novella Competition 2008

I'm looking forward to Nam Le's The Boat, in Australia this June

And I'm looking forward to Stefan Laszczuk's I Dream of Magda, Vogel winner

19-March -08

The Schwartz empire's new Slow TV venture

The Orange Prize longlist for 2008

Gerard Murnane and Christopher Koch being prized

UQP, UWAP, Brandl & Schlesinger and A&U: the Barbara Jefferis shortlist

18-March-08

Rob Drewe's The Drowner being turned into a film: Mel Gibson

Steven Carroll: prizes

Joan London's The Good Parents

Sonya Hartnett's recent spectacular win

Philosophy publishers, re-press.org

Tin House's Georgie's return to Melbourne

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole

The Prime Minister's Literary Awards

John Harms's Footy Almanac

The Rick Amor book launch at Readings this Thursday

Emily Maguire and her Princesses & Pornstars

Michael Chabon's recent New Yorker essay on unitards