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For the first time in a long time, short story collections are selling well

The short form is growing.

'Creating art isn't ever easy'

'I emerged from the theatre an absolute blubbery mess' - Shane Bosher on The Normal Heart

Kiran Dass: Best winter reads

Seven page-turning reads for winter

No love for a cold climate

'It's hard to be an island girl when you live in Wellington.'

'I had crossed a bomb-site of rubble and craters and collapsing cliffs left by vanished ice'

'The higher I climbed, the more the southerly intensified. It shoved me in the face.'

Greg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habits

I like to read - I really do - but do I really?

Greg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authors

Characters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing

'For the first time winter becomes too much'

'You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'

No ordinary life: "It was history, you know?"

Hokianga's octogenarian novelist Judith Reinken.

'I'm very keen to know how to increase or maintain the health of my brain'

Books about increasing efficiency attract writer Natalie Sisson

Will Smith pens memoir - Will

Will Smith will release his memoir in November.

'I wrote it for Māori and Māori kids because we don't have enough stories that represent us'

Shilo Kino's debut novel The Pōrangi Boy is a reflection, in many ways, of her own life.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Edited extract from a new biography of Bob Dylan

What goes around ... life in a loop

Life in a loop examined in Sue Orr's second novel

Glenda Kane: 'I often time-travel to my childhood'

The world needs young female feistiness combined with wisdom, says Glenda Kane

Details of Margaret Mahy's house sale expected this week

The cottage was on the market with a deadline sale that ended on Friday.