Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan is a books columnist and reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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A divorce, a fortune and a bestseller: The memoir everyone is arguing about
A literary scandal has reignited an old question: How much truth does a memoir owe its readers?
- Jane Sullivan
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The graphic novel that just made literary history (and why you should read it)
From history-making milestones to draft-dodging wombats, graphic novels have finally conquered the literary elite.
- Jane Sullivan
This book celebrates the power of handwritten letters. Remember those?
Selected from the National Library of Australia, there are letters from famous Australians and unknown lovebirds.
- Jane Sullivan
Small town’s big writers festival sets record numbers
Now in its fourth year, the Sorrento Writers Festival offered 175 events and attracted around 6000 visitors.
- Jane Sullivan
How AI is trying to rival a creative mind when it comes to writing novels
I doubt we’ll see an AI-generated body of work winning a Nobel Prize for Literature any time soon. But who knows?
- Jane Sullivan
’Tis the season for literary festivals and all things books
We lost Adelaide Writers’ Week this year, but Autumn has become peak season for Australian literary festivals
- Jane Sullivan
Younger people have no idea I spent most of my 20s in a moshpit: Rosalie Ham
The author of The Dressmaker has written a book about ageing, which she gleefully says cannot be done gracefully.
- Jane Sullivan
Should we cancel the books of writers who behave badly?
If they’d had social media in the interwar years, poet Ezra Pound would have had a huge following – and he’d also have been cancelled dozens of times
- Jane Sullivan
Writers paid as much as politicians? Once upon a time, it was a possibility
In the early 1970s, there was talk of paying writers a guaranteed minimum income – the same rate as federal backbenchers.
- Jane Sullivan
‘Wuthering Heights’ is many things, but it’s not the novel Emily Bronte wrote
If you want a flashy romance with all the stops out, go and see the film. But if you want a darker, more complex story that echoes down the generations, read the book.
- Jane Sullivan