Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss. So, without further ado, I bring you the latest Friday Link Roundup! • The Guardian imagines what [...]
Only one thing can put me to sleep faster than Sunday afternoon lawn bowls on the ABC. Finance. Interest is just about the least interesting thing I can imagine. I mean, I’m struggling to suppress a yawn just typing this right now. You can probably imagine the look on my face when an astrophysicist friend [...]
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Recently, I have been thinking a lot about just what it takes to be successful author. Literary success is an elusive prey. Some spend their entire lives searching for it. Some get disheartened and give up. Some achieve moderate success. But only a precious few manage to hit the motherlode. But what makes this small [...]
Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. I’m also going to try and provide some video links to spice things up a little. Hopefully this, and the other more boring links will be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and [...]
Here at TheNile Blog, we pride ourselves on asking all the questions no-one wanted to know the answer to. This is the first of a series of irrelevant polls, where we give our loyal readers the opportunity to tell us what they think. So long as it fits in with the answers we prepared for [...]
There is a fiery debate raging in the Australian book community, the likes of which has never seen before. A Productivity Commission investigation has caused a rift between consumers, publishers and resellers. On one side, you have Australian authors, printers and publishers, who vehemently protest against the proposed changes. On the other, stands the general [...]
The release of Breaking Dawn in June of last year prompted a growing fascination with Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga. When combined with the November release of the first book’s long-awaited film adaptation, the ever-growing hype reached a critical mass; sales figures exploded and the series was catapulted from relative obscurity to cultural phenomenon. Meyer’s meteoric [...]
Every Friday, Swimming in the Nile will bring you five links which will serve to titillate, educate or inspire. Or create amusing Obama posters of you and your pets. Hopefully these links will also be talking points, of which you and your friends, online and offline, can discuss. So, without further ado, I bring you [...]
A few months back, I happened to be in Paris. I spent days wandering back and forth, searching for places of interest and attempting to draw in as much of the atmosphere of the foreign city as I could. The fruits of my labour paid off when I stumbled across a bookstore, and not just [...]
The release of Watchmen in cinemas around the world is causing quite a stir. Fans from all walks of life are emerging from the woodwork to discuss what is widely regarded as not only the greatest graphic novel, but one of the best pieces of fiction ever produced. The film is subsequently being released to [...]