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'The Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little returns with a book about fiction.
'When DBC Pierre burst onto the scene in 2003, he arrived with no particular literary education. Finding he had something to say, he made the journey solo to that place where dreams and demons live, to try and turn feelings into words.
'Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.' (Publication summary)
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DBC Pierre on How to Be an Author : Write in a Fever, Rewrite in a Cardigan
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 12 August 2016; '"Write in a reckless fever. Rewrite in a cardigan." That morsel of wisdom is one of 32 "mindbites" which award-winning bad boy novelist DBC Pierre imparts to would-be writers in his new book Release the Bats. ... -
Notes from the Writer's Room
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 14 August 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
Novel Ideas
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 August 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
Batty Side of the Writing Life
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2016; (p. 25)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
DBC Pierre, Release the Bats
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 30 July 2016;
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography
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DBC Pierre, Release the Bats
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 30 July 2016;
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
Batty Side of the Writing Life
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2016; (p. 25)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
Novel Ideas
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 August 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
Notes from the Writer's Room
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 14 August 2016; (p. 8)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography -
'The Best Plans Never Work, Do They?' : Fourteen Authors on the Business of Wiritng
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 385 2016; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Release the Bats : Writing Your Way Out Of It 2016 single work autobiography ; The Writer's Room : Conversations About Writing 2016 selected work interview 'Writers have, it seems, an insatiable appetite for reading about writing; and such advice comes in various forms. There are books that promise to teach their readers how to write in any form or genre imaginable. There are books on grammar and punctuation, on contracts, on making a living, on managing your profile. Whatever you want, it seems, you'll be able to find; though the quality is not always certain. This year the publishers have provided two more books in this idiom, each of which enriches the genre. Charlotte Wood, herself an accomplished author, talks with equally accomplished writers about their experience of the business – the life – of writing. (This prodigious effort is made more impressive by the fact that, at the same time, she was writing her Stella Prize-winning novel The Natural Way of Things [2016].) DBC Pierre, enfant terrible of the early 2000s and author of the Booker Prize-winning Vernon God Little (2003), offers what the blurb calls an 'irreverent guide to writing fiction', one that skips through principles and technical aspects, and weaves it together with anecdotes from his larger-than-life life.' (Introduction) -
DBC Pierre on How to Be an Author : Write in a Fever, Rewrite in a Cardigan
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 12 August 2016; '"Write in a reckless fever. Rewrite in a cardigan." That morsel of wisdom is one of 32 "mindbites" which award-winning bad boy novelist DBC Pierre imparts to would-be writers in his new book Release the Bats. ...
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