Publishing
Literary Lion Tamers: Book editors who made publishing history by Craig Munro
The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system by Patrick Mullins
Faber & Faber: The untold history of a great publishing house by Toby Faber
Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why writing well matters by Harold Evans
What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing edited by Peter Ginna
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
Mary Cunnane, who has worked in the publishing industry since 1976, laments the laziness and irritation of those publishers who resent and underestimate unsolicited submissions from authors
... (read more)The coffin sat on a chrome trolley at the front of the pews. In the end we only need a box six feet by two, and how small it looks ... the imagination falters.
Helen Garner, in her eulogy for Diana Gribble, delivered at Christ Church, South Yarra, spoke of finding out what ‘publishers’ were like. In 1976 she pedalled over to the new McPhee Gribb ...
British author Glen Duncan released his eighth novel this year, the title of which, The Last Werewolf, is fairly self-explanatory. Although a much more philosophical (and entertaining) read than one might imagine in our current supernaturally-dominated ‘box-office’ novel landscape, Duncan’s book was a marked departure from an author better known for h ...
It’s not often that literature makes the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, but on 3 November 2006 the lead story was a report by David Marr about the National Library of Australia’s purchase of a collection of Patrick White’s papers, previously thought destroyed. Other media, both in Australia and internationally, picked up the story. The T ...