Bret Easton Ellis is notorious for his disaffected characters and scenes of sex and violence. Controversy dogs him, fans adore him, universities teach him, and the enfant terrible shows no sign of mellowing. He's just trying to write through the pain of his childhood, he tells Viola Fort.
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Interviews
Bret Easton Ellis is notorious for his disaffected characters and scenes of sex and violence. Controversy dogs him, fans adore him, universities teach him, and the enfant terrible shows no sign of mellowing. He's just trying to write through the pain of his childhood, he tells Viola Fort. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Miguel Syjuco's first novel, Ilustrado, won the Man Asian literary prize while still in manuscript and has been dazzling readers and reviewers ever since. He talks to Viola Fort. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
Marrying shrewd observation of contemporary anxieties with a darkly funny observation of family life, Joe Meno's fifth novel has drawn comparisons with The Corrections. Written in response to the Bush election in 2004, this is the first time he has felt politically engaged, he tells James Vitus. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
My week
The author of Union Atlantic laments the corruption of our youth, ponders the rise of crystal meth and gives in to Twilight. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Shane Jones meets Garrison Keillor, watches some TV and heads back to the office. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
This Party's Got to Stop is Rupert Thompson's first venture into non-fiction, recalling the unsettling, anarchic months he shared a house with his brothers following the death of their father. Here he recalls a week in Barcelona. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
How I write
Tim Parks' is the author of several novels, including Tongues of Flame and Europa, as well as non-fiction and essays. His most recent book, Teach Us to Sit Still, traces his attempts to understand a cripplingly painful medical condition, and seek relief and recovery. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Christos Tsiolkas's fourth novel, The Slap, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been on the Australian bestseller list since it was first published in 2008. He lives in Melbourne. More...
Friday, 25 June, 2010
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell was named as one of Granta's twenty best young British novelists in 2003. His most recent book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is published this month. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
The author of Union Atlantic laments the corruption of our youth, ponders the rise of crystal meth and gives in to Twilight.
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Features
Jonathan Dee's latest novel The Privileges opens with a wedding, told from the point of view of several of the guests, the baton passing from one to another before alighting on his main characters. Here, he explores other novels that experiment with point of view and finds that who dares, wins. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
The novel is alive and kicking, despite reports to the contrary, but should writers be turning their talents to more pressing concerns, asks Michael Byers. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
In her novel The Lessons, Naomi Alderman tells the story of a group of friends at Oxford from the perspective of two men. Here, she considers literary ventriloquism and the transformative thrill of writing in a male tongue, from Patricia Highsmith's Ripley to Elizabeth Knox's angel Xas. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
What I'm reading
Adam O'Riordan's first collection of poetry is In the Flesh. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Robert McCrum is the author of several novels and three works of non-fiction. He was a Publishing Director at Faber and Faber, and literary editor of the Observer for many years. His most recent book is Globish. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor and the author of Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century was Reported. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
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