Dailies

Yesterday: Introducing the poet in residence, Online-only Australian wordy mag launches, An EWF Director wraps up Edinburgh and Australian says "Bugger the Bloggers"

Schools getting into fest., Peter FitzSimons on life, family and bandanas and Conrad's classic gets a comic re-invention

Video book review gets totally hip, Wikipedia spoils Agatha Christie classic and Kon Karapanagiotidis demands an end to the fearmongering.

What events are you looking forward to at the Melbourne Writers Festival?, Megalogenis on why not forming government could result in electoral exile and NZ Labour Party wants your policy suggestions

Alex Miller gives his Scottish father's version of the meaning of life., The Jackal back in Random House, Hard to recognise same sex marriages and Judy Horcek turns up the heat on critics

George Megalogenis looks at the rise of third parties, Leigh Ewbank defends public projects and Will Whedon sing on Friday night?

Rudd's post-election media bounceback, Ian Brown on what we can learn from the less abled, Editors becoming curators online and How do you feel about the hung parliament and the possibility of another election?

An EWF Director at British Council's Bookcase, Sue-Ann Post thinks you should start seeing other people and Godin says "I'm out" of print publishing

Small press unbound in e-books, So who is Adam Bandt?, Gideon Haigh on Australia's ailing literary culture and Megalogenis looks into the crystal ball for Lunchbox/Soapbox

Which former leader would you vote for tomorrow?, Abbott's Iron Ladies in budgie interview coup, Beyond the Palinism and Wheeler Weekly: Cartoon by Oslo Davis

The world's biggest search engine is telling you what to type, Our comments went American Psycho for Easton Ellis and Inside the font conference