CR Newsletter Jan: Moving to Substack

Hello beautiful reading folk.  Happy new year!  Just a quick post to let you know that I'm moving this blog over to Substack.  After deleting 40 spam messages, I figure that's a better place for interaction and as people had already begun following me over there even though I was just reading other people's blogs (with the occasional comment), I figured it was a more active place.  So if you want our monthly updates and maybe a bit more - festival news, the odd poetry essay, and other literary things that don't quite fit anywhere else, that's your place.  I promise I will never monetise it - Compulsive Reader, the Podcast, and my Substack will always be free, so please join over there as I slowly transition this site.  Thank you for your ongoing engagement - I know this is a busy, noisy, and content rich world and I appreciate you!  

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CR Newsletter March is out!

The March Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out. This month we feature interviews with Keats' Ode's Anahid Nersessian and A Gentle Tyranny's Jess Corban as well as eight new reviews including, among other things, Elena Ferrante's new book The Lying Life of Adults, Vegan Junk Food by Zacchary Bird, and Sonnets by Theresa Rodriguez. There are also two new giveaways and a whole bevy of literary news from around the world. It should be arriving in your inbox directly, but if you haven't gotten it yet, you can grab a copy from the archive, here: 

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CR Newsletter for November

The November Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out and should be in your inbox now or very soon.  This month we have reviews of new books by Oliver Smuhar, Adrian Koesters, Sarah Myles (and do check out our interview with Sarah here: Sarah Myles on The Wolf Hour), Loisa Fenichell, Susan Taylor Meehan, our own reviewer par excellence Ruth Latta, Malcolm Gladwell, and Elayne Klasson.  We also have interviews with C B Anderson, Tantra Bensko, C R Richards, and Lois Hermann, and of course the usual extensive round-up of literary news, and two new site giveaways (Do please enter those - we generally only get about 20% of you entering the comps so odds are good!).  

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter October

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Happy October! The latest issue of Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out, and should either be in your in box already, or on the way.  This month’s newsletter has 5 giveaways (I love to give out books), along with 10 new reviews including new books by Sean Dietrich, Peter Valentine, Mary Mackey, Philip Salom and lots more as well as interviews with Theresa Rodriguez and Dan Tuttle, and of course our big literary news roundup including the latest on The Booker Prize, The Edith Grossman, and Academy of American Poets. If you haven’t received yours yet, you can grab a copy from our archive here: http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MTQ1OTU

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CR Newsletter for June is out!

June's Compulsive Reader newsletter has just gone out, and as usually is overloaded with literary news (including the Pen/Faulkner, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Four Quartets, and the Miles Franklin), a bunch of new reviews and interviews including The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser (and don't forget to check out our interview with Bram here:
https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Bram-Presser-on-The-Book-of-Dirt-e3umri), Known by Salt by Tina Mozelle Braziel, The Age of Fibs by Beth Spencer, and of course our very popular giveaways for subscribers (we have 2 this month!).  If you missed the newsletter, maybe it is in your junk folder?  Or just go here and grab a copy:  CR Archive

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Happy reading!

Compulsive Reader newsletter for July

The July Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out and should be in your inboxes today.  This month’s issue is a bumper crop of 13 new reviews including the latest by Vicki Salloum, Kai Carlson-Wee, Gabrielle Reid, Kerri Shying and many others.  We also have interviews with Bill Luvaas, Jill Jones, Kathryn Fry (Jill and Kathryn are audio podcasts).  Of course there’s also a subscriber giveaway.  If you haven’t received it or want to check it out, you can grab a copy here in our Compulsive Reader Archive.
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Compulsive Reader Newsletter for Feb

The February Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out.  As always the newsletter has 10 fresh links to reviews and author interviews including an exclusive, in-depth chat with the amazing Kaz Cooke, reviews of the poetry books Glasshouses by Stuart Barnes and Appalachian Fall by Jennifer Maiden (which I’ll be launching in Newcastle on the 13th of Feb at Maclean’s Books - you’re invited to join us - it’s free and wine and cheese provided), great new fiction like Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky, as well as a round-up of literary news around the globe, another great book giveaway, and more.  If you’re a subscriber, it should already be in your in-box (or check your spam folder and then white list me!).  Or you can grab a copy here: http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MTMyNjc

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter out for June

In case it's still sitting in your spam box, or en route - it takes a day or two for all 10,000 of them to go out, the June Compulsive Reader newsletter has just gone out (mate, it's June here in Aus) and you can grab a copy from the archive here: 
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This month we've got a great batch of new reviews (and more still on site - I only include 10 in the newsletter but there are about 20 new ones since last month!), lots of literary news including the  Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, the RSL Ondaatje Prize finalists, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and many others, 3 new book giveaways (I love giving away books, even my own dogeared favourites - for reasons I don't entirely understand), and a link to the new podcast interview with Carmel Macdonald Grahame (and yes, you can get there by just clicking on Carmel's name here).  If you're not a subscriber, well, just become one - it's free and pretty simple.  Just drop by www.compulsivereader.com and put your email and name in - I don't ask for any other details and don't use the email address for anything other than the monthly newsletters - no one else will get your details either and you can unsub anytime.