Drawn and quarterly. These Are the 21 Female Authors You Should Be Reading. On Monday, Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch. It was no surprise, really, since the much-anticipated novel made the New York Times best-seller list during its first week on the shelves. The book was so popular that people flocked to the Frick Collection in record numbers to see the titular painting that features heavily in the Dickensian plot. Tartt takes a notoriously long time to write her novels: The Goldfinch took 11 years, and she says that we may have to wait just as long for her next book.
So now that you’ve finished The Goldfinch — and her other two books, The Secret History and The Little Friend — what to read next to tide you over? At the beginning of 2014, writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh began the Twitter hashtag #readwomen2014 in an effort to encourage readers to pick up more books by women this year. That task is only getting easier: 2014 will feature dozens of terrific books by women. Chimamanda Adichie Eleanor Catton Edwidge Danticat A.M. Very Happy to Be Here · Meanjin · Literacy in Australia · Melbourne University Publishing · Classic English Literature Books · Australian Literary Journals & Magazines. In times of energy, passion or too much coffee I can tell you why I love Canberra.
The rest of the time, I am tired of talking about this place. I’m asked about it so often: ‘Have you always been here?’ ‘When did you first come?’ ‘How long will you stay?’ Each time I trip up at the implication that Canberra is somehow different or inherently deprived. Treading carefully, without bringing up bike paths, hot-air balloons or lack of traffic, I’m able to assure people that we have all the things here you’d expect to find, everything is in its right place. But here my enthusiasm begins to flag, because I know that the arts, their communities and various entertainments aren’t what people are really asking about. Sometimes people living here are the ones asking these questions most often, as if, although they are physically present, their hearts and minds have already departed for elsewhere. Waiting for the sun to set on Mount Stromlo, photograph by the author, 2011.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. In the Galactic Commons, humanity is a minor player. Though they have carved a niche for themselves among their alien neighbors, this small, wandering race of merchants and modders is of little concern to the galaxy at large. To most, humans aren't much to worry about. Amidst the noise and bluster of a very crowded sky, an insignificant ship of wormhole builders -- better known as tunnelers -- makes its quiet way around the stars, punching holes in space. The ship is the Wayfarer, and its crew is an unremarkable one. But even the most ordinary people have stories to tell.
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