Laura Elizabeth Woollett

In our fast-paced attention economy, how did On the Calculation of Volume, a ruminative series about a woman living the same day on repeat, become an international bestseller?

In the follow-up to her internationally bestselling memoir, Jennette McCurdy takes the readers on a squeamish journey of teenage lust in an inegalitarian world.

Bri Lee is a rare Australian literary multihyphenate: bestselling author, public intellectual, activist and social media influencer. Given her knack for brand building, her debut novel offers a self-aware yet lukewarm parody of the uneasy relationship between art and money.

When I got a two-book deal at 25, I believed that my best work was still ahead of me. But authors only get one chance to be marketed as an ‘exciting new voice’—what happens when you’re no longer the next big thing?

For writers who ascribe to the practice of ‘method writing’, the ability to fully inhabit a character’s tastes, habits and personality can be creatively rewarding and exhilarating. But is the practice sustainable? What happens when method writing goes too far?