Heavy rain through the night might have brought on ''uhtceare'' and powerful urges to ignore the alarm in favour of ''floccilation'', but the city's literary crowd ventured out nonetheless, filling many of Thursday's Sydney Writers Festival sessions.
An author who pens stories the length of a sentence won this year's Man Booker International Prize.
Heavy rain through the night might have brought on "uhtceare" and powerful urges to ignore the alarm in favour of "floccilation", but the city's literary crowd ventured out nonetheless, filling many of Thursday's Sydney Writers Festival sessions to capacity.
Jo Case has come to see her son's diagnosis as a gift.
Were the American actor and author Molly Ringwald to play a character in the screenplay adaption of her own fiction, it would be Marina, the feisty single mother of a six-year-old boy who wishes he was a girl.
Welshman Daniel Morden is hooked on telling stories, writes Linda Morris.
Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Nunga poet, is the second Aboriginal writer to win the top prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, in consecutive years.
Anna Goldsworthy's second autobiographical work is an account of the pains and pleasures of parenthood.
Emerging Writers' Festival director Sam Twyford-Moore talks about his favourite books.
This British husband and wife team feels there's a better way to communicate with younger readers.
