Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 208:32:43
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BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episódios
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Outraged tweeters, miniature soldiers and the flooded canals of Venice
06/08/2021 Duração: 53minKate and Cassie join guests Larissa Behrendt and Tiger Webb as Irish writer John Boyne takes on the Twittersphere; Nick Earls spins a tale that takes us from Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars through Russia in 1916 and on to contemporary Alaska and Hong Kong; and in Christine Mangan’s Palace of the Drowned we're in a wet and spooky Venice.
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The Book Club: Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth & the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
30/07/2021 Duração: 54minBooks writer Nicole Abadee and theatre writer Tom Wright join Kate and Cassie to read Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth, winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, as well as the other five books on the award's shortlist
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Three novels of seclusion: by Mark Brandi, Sunjeev Sahota, Patrick McGrath
23/07/2021 Duração: 56minWriters Rashida Murphy (The Historian's Daughter) and Michael Winkler (Grimmish) join Kate and Cassie as they read and review Mark Brandi's The Others, Sunjeev Sahota's China Room and Patrick McGrath's Last Days in Cleaver Square
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The deliberately depraved and dissolute worlds of James Ellroy and Lisa Taddeo
16/07/2021 Duração: 57minFrom Los Angeles to Antarctica, this week The Bookshelf offers up stories that combine history, gossip, scandal and noirish nightmare in James Ellroy's Widespread Panic; gothic, even melodramatic, versions of pain and damage and rage, in Lisa Taddeo's Animal; and clean cold crisis that moves towards a poetic jumble of miscommunication, in Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand
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Podcast Extra: More Musical Mayhem with Taylor Jenkins Reid and Dawnie Walton
14/07/2021 Duração: 48minExtended interviews by Kate Evans with writers Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising and Daisy Jones and the Six) and Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal and Nev), following on from the recent music-and-fiction Book Club, and finding the 'bookshelf that made me' for both these writers
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The Book Club: Turn up the Music!
09/07/2021 Duração: 57minDouble J's Zan Rowe and music journalist and novelist Barry Divola join Kate and Cassie as they talk music in books, focusing on Dawnie Walton's The Final Revival of Opal and Nev and Patti Smith's Just Kids (with bookish recommendations from musicians Amy Shark, Robert Forster and Emma Swift)
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Can't Travel? Here's a collection of books that will transport you
02/07/2021 Duração: 54minTravel to places both real and imagined with writers Heather Rose, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Richard Fidler and Tegan Bennett Daylight, in conversation with Kate Evans onstage at the Sydney Writers Festival
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A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical words and a train: what to read this week
25/06/2021 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie are joined this week by poet and music writer Mark Mordue, singer-songwriter Darren Hanlon and Music Show colleague Andrew Ford; and the books discussed are Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising, Kate Sawyer's The Stranding and Helen Oyeyemi's Peaces - with a side serving of music on the page.
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A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby: novels to make you feel and think
18/06/2021 Duração: 01h09minNovelist Meg Mason (Sorrow and Bliss) and journalist Michael Dulaney join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Briohny Doyle's Echolalia and Angelike Schrobsdorff's You Are Not Like Other Mothers; and English writer Elizabeth MacNeal reveals the books and ideas that shaped Circus of Wonders
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Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and other adventures in reading and reviewing)
11/06/2021 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie are joined by reviewer Dr Ruth Wilson, whose PhD on Jane Austen and education was awarded last year, when she was 88 years old. Together, they read Joan Silber's Secrets of Happiness and Alice Pung's One Hundred Days
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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith
04/06/2021 Duração: 54minCrime writer Michel Robotham and playwright Joanna Murray Smith join Kate and Cassie to discuss the work of Patricia Highsmith, high priestess of dark psychological thrillers. With cameos by Highsmith herself, her biographer Richard Bradford, crime writer and singer Jane Clifton, and featuring critiques from members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group
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Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions
31/05/2021 Duração: 10minAhead of this week's RN Book Club on Patricia Highsmith, her biographer Richard Bradford answers questions from readers and members of the ABC Book Club Facebook Group. An intriguing woman, and a writer who places you inside the perspective of her dark and disquieting characters
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Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy Africa remade
28/05/2021 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie read Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Other Half of You, Cassandra Austin's Like Mother and Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm with writers Monica Dux and Eugen Bacon
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Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes
21/05/2021 Duração: 58minErn Malley was the poet at the centre of Australia's most famous literary hoaxes: an invented poet, supposedly discovered by his sister, Ethel. Well, Ethel has been revived and rediscovered, made solid by the novelist Stephen Orr in his Sincerely, Ethel Malley. Kate and Cassie are joined by Debra Oswald and Gavin Williams as they read this and new novels by Jhumpa Lahiri and Imbolo Mbue
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Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat
19/05/2021 Duração: 30minWriter and translator Subhash Jaireth tracks his life through both countries and bookshelves, from India to the (then) Soviet Union and onto Australia, with many countries and literary traditions in between. He speaks to Kate Evans about where reading and books have taken him.
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Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god
14/05/2021 Duração: 54minWriter Krissy Kneen and podcaster Mike Williams join Cassie and Kate as they discuss Rahul Raina's How to Kidnap the Rich, Jamie Marina Lau's Gunk Baby and Jasper Gibson's The Octopus Man. An Indian satire, a contemporary not-quite-dystopian shopping centre, and following the voice of a tentacled deity. Three new works of fiction.
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Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s
12/05/2021 Duração: 25minIndia's first woman lawyer practiced, against the odds, in the 1920s. Novelist Sujata Massey used that woman as inspiration for her fictional character, Perveen Mistry, amateur sleuth in a country bursting with change. Sujata Massey speaks to Kate Evans about her own writing and the bookshelf that shaped her. Reading recommendations abound.
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The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun
07/05/2021 Duração: 55minNovelist Bram Presser and comparative literature academic Rebecca Suter join Kate and Cassie to talk about Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, Klara and the Sun, in light of all his other novels. And yes, the quality of light, shining down on this Artificial Friend - Robot Girl - is one of the many things at stake in this bookish discussion
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Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita Heiss, Rick Morton and Emily Maguire
30/04/2021 Duração: 54minIt's been a long time since Kate and Cassie have seen either writers or readers in person, but here we all are . . .
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Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads historical fiction and political biography
28/04/2021 Duração: 25minFighting aliens with bows arrows, reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and why he's drawn to historical fiction. Former Governor General Peter Cosgrove speaks to Kate Evans about books, reading, history, political biography and writing memoir