Soundtrack: Springtime in Vienna Wellington I'm struggling with THE NOVEL at the moment. More to the point, I'm struggling...

How's this for a line up: Elizabeth Knox  - winner of Deutz Medal for Fiction at Montana Book Awards, American Library Association Bes...

A preamble of lists The New Yorker Fiction Podcast has been going since December 2006. There have been 52 so far, with a new one appearin...

Going West The view from my bed & breakfast in Titirangi I was in Titirangi, West Auckland, on Saturday and Sunday for Going Wes...

I flew to Melbourne on Friday afternoon, arriving in time to meet up for dinner with Eleanor Catton (with whom I was to appear in a session ...

Farewell Peka I still can't bring myself to call him that ridiculous name starting with H.F.  The penguin I caught up with on Pekapeka...

Naming Characters (the first instalment of many) I’ve been on the hunt recently for names for secondary characters as THE NOVEL moves into...

This will all make sense in time, via  EVRD From the moment I committed myself to building a literary CV from the ground up* sometime i...