Who are you?
A mass of fearons or is that leaptons trying to make sense of the world. No seriously I am just trying to make sense of the conflict that is life. We are given desires and dreams and then often the inability to make them real cos life comes along and makes it impossible. […]

On Monday, the Cambridge Union Society debated “This House would return the Parthenon Marbles to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.” Sponsoring the debate was easyCruise. The travel company offers a Classical Greece cruise that includes a visit to the Acropolis, the tourist attraction bereft of most of its treasures. An Acropolis reunited […]

Steve Kane has me tagged. This is what I must do.
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people.
So:
1. I look to the pile of books to the right of my keyboard. Under some pages I […]

From the Quotes of the Day rss feed:
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~Paul Valéry
  

1. Who are you?
Ellen Meister, mom, wife, sister, daughter, writer, blogger, friend, lover, minivan-driver, contact lens wearer, migraine sufferer, cook, reader, hugger, laundress, skeptic, believer, supermarket shopper, homework helper, laugher, weeper, Scrabble player, PTA member, interviewee.
2. What do you write?
What I AIM to write is smart, funny novels about women and their relationships with one […]

Today I received a copy of The Australian Writer’s Marketplace 2007/08 from my favourite bookshop in the world, Gleebooks. (When you order you get a personal email to thank you and tell you it’s in the mail!)
Here it is:   
So, I’m very happily flicking through it, through the lists of magazines, journals, newspapers, literary agents, […]

1. Who are you?
Roger Morris. Oh shit. I’m supposed to spend at least one minute answering this? My name* alone is not enough then? You want something a bit more profound, philosophical, existential, at the very least, insightful? Something a bit more revealing perhaps? The local paper (Crouch End and Muswell Hill Times) described me […]

My friend, Angel, sent me a link to a Guardian piece in which Brian Aldiss, author of Brothers of the Head (”the 1977 novel about conjoined twins who are exploited as a pop act [which] has now been made into a film”) looks at “the question of where creative ideas emerge from.”
Aldiss writes:
It’s all wrapped […]

Interesting piece in The Age about Kate Grenville’s The Secret River.
Novelist Kate Grenville has upset historians by claiming her Booker-shortlisted The Secret River is a new form of history writing.
…begins the report by Jane Sullivan. While researching the story, Grenville came across “dispatch from Governor Arthur Phillip, written a few months after the First […]

Another great book review by Apostolos Vasilakis over at Greekworks.com. This time it’s a review of George Pelecanos’s The Night Gardener. Vasilakis begins the review with a quote from Petros Markaris, the Greek crime writer (Deadline in Athens) who was the subject of Vasilakis’s previous reviews. The quote:
[The] detective novel becomes more and more social….It’s […]