Pavlov's Cat continues her run with the Miles Franklin Award by successfully picking this year's winner.
I'm starting to think I should set up a separate category for posts about all the prizes and awards that Shaun Tan has been nominated for. The latest is "The Harvey Award". Forbidden Planet has the details.
Tracey Rolfe is a writer, editor and teacher of writing and editing at Victoria University (TAFE). On her weblog, "Speculating about Fiction" she contemplates the role of writer as celebrity.
In an article titled "Workplace Wisdom Found in Fiction" in the "U.S. News & World Report", Michael S. Wade includes Max Barry's novel Company in the category of "Insane Workplaces". Also listed along with Barry are Something Happened by Joseph Heller, and Catch-22 by Heller. Impressive.
