This weekend I went to the first workshop at Melbourne's brand spanking new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. It's the jewel in the crown of UNESCO's City of Literature and, based on the construction work going on out the front, there's a bit more polishing before it's fully ...

Micol Ostow, author of So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), is guest-blogging all week with MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book Council. If you had told me when I first began my career as a writer of teen fiction that I would in time gravitate from the pop-sugar of early projects like 30 Guys

... turn into something more? Writer A.J. Jacobs has turned what seems like a quirk — overhauling his life in sometimes-simple, sometimes-radical ways and cataloging the impact at length in books and for Esquire — into a genre. Quirk is the baseline for Jacobs’ life — he works at a fashionable men’s magazine, but largely forsakes fashion for comfort and claims to own ...

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Well, sanity of the stayed-up-till-3:30-AM-writing sort prevailed, and so today I am not spending six hours going back and forth to New Haven for a two-hour presentation, even one on a topic that interests me so very very much. In the meantime (for instance during that aforementioned staying up until 3:30 AM, all

The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, The Centre for the Book at Monash University, and The UNESCO Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas at The State Library of Victoria invite proposals considering examples of forbidden, hidden and censored books conceived broadly and the issues that stem from them.Abstracts are sought for both individual