John Burnside & John Armstrong: are they ever in the same room at the same time?
And, is it just me, or does Bill Loehfelm resemble Sean Scalmer?
Coen Brothers to film Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union
10-April-08
Guardian blog: Edna O'Brien at the book club, tonight
Literature's Simon Cowell...? on slush piles
Paula Fox: Courtney Love's grandmother
Maud Newton: interview with Kate Christensen
7-April-08
Guardian blog: Salespeople and writers
Paula Fox on the RN Book Show
Lower advances & no bookseller returns... interesting: NY Times
4-April-08
The Story of a Magazine: The Atlantic
ABR's Calibre Prize for essays
Blame it on the Boogie: Andrew O'Hagan on Michael Jackson in the LRB
Perfect for Bairnsdale residents: Max Barry talking Syrup
Imagine if we had a book bar at the new Centre for Books & Writing
Sleepers Almanac author John Burnside, as well as Anne Enright, Blake Morrison, Hermione Lee, and more, at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival
3-April-08
Nina Conti (Bernard's girlfriend, briefly, in Black Books)
I'm looking forward to Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection, Unaccustomed Earth
Readings bookstore
And I'm looking forward to BA Goodjohn's Sticklebacks and Snow Globes
2-April-08
Judy Budnitz: Flush
Richard Ford's New Yorker story: Leaving for Kenosha
RMIT writing students
Lydia Davis, AM Holmes: St Mark's Bookshop NYC reading series
Reviewing the Reviewer: Guardian Blogs
Adam Thirlwell on Muriel Spark
Craig Silvey & Sonia Martinez: The World According to Warren, currently shortlisted for the CBC Crichton Award for New Illustrators
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
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
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
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
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
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 ParentsSonya 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
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