Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Writers [on Writing]: Saul Bellow On reading literary novels in the electronic age: ‘The little evidence we have suggests that...

Writers [on Writing]: Rick Bass "The wild landscape becomes the widened boundaries of my life."

Aurealis Award Finalist: 'Reading Coffee' Euphoric? Gracious? Humbled? A 'yes' to all three on being announced a finalis...

Writers [on Writing]: Russell Banks In his comical essay, Russell Banks uses a personal anecdote to convey the idea that we spin fict...

Andre Aciman, Alexandria and my Pappou Andre Aciman is a displaced Alexandrian. My Pappou on my father's side was the same, albeit it ...

'Writers [on Writing]. Collected Essays from THE NEW YORK TIMES' There is no mythical spring that all writers draw from. Some w...

A Tiny Bit Political: Economic Reform and Mining I saw some great acts at the Perth Writers' Festival over the weekend and it's...

Recent Reads: Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe and  Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham  On Claw of the Conciliator' by Gene W...

24 'standout' short stories from my 2011 reading In 2011, I read 96 short stories, many of them longer short stories and novelettes...

Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick. Michael Swanwick is one of the more adventurous writers in the already imaginative field of specul...

Brief Book Review: New Australian Stories 2 Ed: Aviva Tuffield (2010) Both Scribe Publications ( New Australian Stories) and Black Inc....

Books Read 2011 A Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin On Writing Stephen King The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan The Bloody Chambe...

Istanbul: The Imperial City by John Freely & On Writing by Stephen King Over the past decade I have been an avid reader of Ottoman his...

On the Simple vs Continuous Tense A couple of years ago at a writing workshop, I heard a book reviewer of a prominent Australian newspaper...

Dotdotdash Subscriberthon I confess that I no longer subscribe to Dotdotdash but before you condemn me to the gallows (this is about a sub...