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Percival Everett reimagines Huckleberry Finn
13 mei 2024 · 28 min
Percival Everett, a prolific author known for his versatility across various genres and styles, reinterprets an American classic novel. Lees meer
Percival Everett, a prolific author known for his versatility across various genres and styles, reinterprets the American classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James, (Pan Macmillan) shifts the focus to Huck's enslaved companion, Jim, challenging the portrayal of slaves as ignorant and simple.
And Banned Books Episode Four Gender Queer, explores an award winning memoir by an American author that's being challenged in the Australian Federal court in an attempt to ban it.
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Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia
11 mei 2024 · 27 min
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the most banned book in the USA and now it's being challenged in the courts in Australia. Lees meer
Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
This episode explores Gender Queer, an illustrated memoir which details Maia Kobabe's experience of coming out as non-binary and asexual. The book has been banned in school and public libraries across the US. In Australia, a conservative Queensland activist is seeking to have it banned and is taking the Australian Classification Review Board to the Australian Federal Court over it's unrestricted classification of the memoir.
Is the US book banning movement coming to Australia?
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Val McDermid and Jonathan Seidler on ancient queens and modern love
6 mei 2024 · 42 min
Crime writer Val McDermid investigates Scotland's most famous female character to reveal a very different Lady Macbeth. And Sydney writer Jonathon Seidler delves into the story beyond the happy ending and how breakups can define a relationship. Lees meer
Crime writer Val McDermid investigates Scotland’s most famous female character to reveal a very different Lady Macbeth. Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales is part of a series where well known authors find the truth behind the legends commissioned by the historical fiction publishing house Birlinn.
Jonathan Seidler is no stranger to the complexities of modern relationships. A Sydney writer, journalist and columnist, his work is frequently published in journals and newspapers. He has also written a memoir exploring his family history of mental illness. Jonathan's latest is a novel, All the Beautiful Things You Love which delves into the story beyond the happy ending - how break-ups can define a relationship.
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Banned Books 03: Homoerotic fiction in China
4 mei 2024 · 18 min
Webfiction is a gargantuan platform for writers in China but authors of male to male fiction - known as the danmei or boyslove genre - are experiencing a censorship crackdown and some writers have been imprisoned for their writing. Lees meer
This episode is about Occupied by Tianyi – a boyslove/danmei novel whose author was sentenced to 10 years jail in China for indecency in 2018.
Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
Guests:
Liang Ge - PHD candidate, Kings College London and expert on danmei/boyslove culture and fiction.
Megan Walsh - author of The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters.
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Pod extra — Alexis Wright wins a second Stella Prize
2 mei 2024 · 20 min
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Stella Prize, for her novel, Praiseworthy. The novel is an Aboriginal fable, about a fictional town, a haze cloud, a haze cloud, land rights, global warming, and donkeys. Judges described Praiseworthy as 'genre-bending' and 'canon-breaking'. Lees meer
Alexis Wright previously won the Stella in 2018 for her non-fiction collective memoir Tracker. She also won the Miles Franklin for her novel Carpentaria.
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Téa Obreht and Emily O'Grady on Balkan fairytales, nepo babies and wild creatures
29 april 2024 · 44 min
Author of The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht reterns with Morningside, a dystopian fairy tale, and Stella Prize-shortlisted author Emily O'Grady on the rotten characters in her novel Feast. Lees meer
Téa Obreht won The Women's Prize for Fiction — then called the Orange Prize — for her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife and at the time she was the youngest ever winner of the award. It was a family saga, about doctors, death and the Balkan wars. She followed it up with a Western called Inland. With her new novel, Morningside, Obreht has shifted gears again with a dystopian fairy tale set in a flooded future version of what feels a lot like Manhattan.
The Stella Prize will be announced this week; it's an annual prize for Australian women and non-binary writers. One of this year's shortlisted authors is Emily O'Grady for her novel, Feast. The book is about an unconventional family meeting in a run-down Scottish castle and was described by the Stella Prize judges as a 'perfect jewel of a novel'.
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Banned Books 02: The Satanic Verses and the fatwa
27 april 2024 · 24 min
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie inspired riots in England and book burnings in India; death threats, murders and a fatwa; and ultimately, a devastating physical attack on Salman Rushdie in 2022. Lees meer
Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
This episode revisits how one book inspired so much hatred and violence.
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Andrew O'Hagan's biggest novel yet
22 april 2024 · 33 min
Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan explains why finishing his latest novel Caledonian Road was like "landing 65 planes on the tarmac"; plus a teaser for the first in our Banned Books series, starting in America. Lees meer
Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan's (Faber and Faber) latest book Caledonian Road is a big one in length and Dickensian scope. It's an exploration of life in London — a world of intellectuals and elites, Russian oligarchs and human traffickers, rappers, DJs, wellness assistants and those who seek to shake up the whole rotten system.
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Banned Books 01: Race and racism in the USA
20 april 2024 · 24 min
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was inspired by the black lives matter movement and explores police brutality — so why is it being taken off library shelves in the US? Lees meer
Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
The series begins in America where books about race and racism have become a lightning rod for censorship in public libraries and state schools
Guests:
Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give (original 2017 interview)
Kasey Meehan, program director for Freedom to Read, PEN America
Tracie D Hall, former executive director of the American Library Association
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Australian memoirist, poet, children's book author. Her poem There's a Shelf in the Library is in her latest poetry collection It's the Sound of the Thing.
Find the other episodes in the series here.
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Sunjeev Sahota, Vanessa Chan and Winnie Dunn bring us stories from home
15 april 2024 · 54 min
Booker-shortlisted author Sunjeev Sahota argues that class is more important than identity, Vanessa Chan draws on her grandmother's stories of Japanese occupied Malaya and Winnie Dunn channels her own experience of growing up Tongan in Western Sydney. Lees meer
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André Aciman and Anjali Joseph on the joy of doing nothing
8 april 2024 · 54 min
Known for his sumptuous novel Call Me By My Name, André Aciman's latest book also explores love and beauty in Italy. Plus, Indian author Anjali Joseph on the allure of Assam, India, which is known for its unique cultural heritage.
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Melissa Lucashenko on writing through flood, fire and pestilence
1 april 2024 · 54 min
At Adelaide Writers' Week, Melissa Lucashenko explains how understanding that "all history is fiction" allowed her to write her historic novel Edenglassie.
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Jane Smiley and Louise Milligan on stories they couldn't let go
25 maart 2024 · 54 min
Award winning Australian journalist Louise Milligan on her debut crime novel inspired by police and PTSD and Pulitzer Prize winning Jane Smiley on why she wants her books to be banned and her latest novel A Dangerous Business.
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Jonathan Lethem returns to Brooklyn
18 maart 2024 · 54 min
Bestselling American author Jonathan Lethem explains why he returned to Brooklyn in his fiction after 20 years.
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Anne Enright on motherhood, Irish poets and famous parents
11 maart 2024 · 54 min
At Adelaide Writers' Week, Booker-winner Anne Enright speaks about the contradictions at the heart of families.
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RF Kuang and Nam Le on Yellowface, mums and minorities
4 maart 2024 · 54 min
RF Kuang speaks about her bestseller Yellowface and Nam Le, Australian author of The Boat, explains why his latest is a book of poetry.
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Jennifer Croft, Imbi Neeme and Mykaela Saunders on translation, chewing and the Tweed
26 februari 2024 · 54 min
Award-winning literary translator Jennifer Croft imagines what happens when translators get together in a primeval forest, Imbi Neeme's exploration of misophonia and Mykaela Saunders' love-hate relationship with Mad Max.
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Jasper Fforde, Amy Brown and Leo Vardiashvili on surprises, fairytales and rickrolling
19 februari 2024 · 54 min
Jasper Fforde's sequel to Shades of Grey, Amy Brown introduces us to Miles Franklin's sister and Leo Vardiashvili's missing persons quest through the forests of Georgia.
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Kristin Hannah, Jodi McAlister and Sharlene Allsopp on women, war and love
12 februari 2024 · 54 min
Bestselling American author Kristin Hannah digs into the little known stories of US nurses during the Vietnam War, Jodi McAlister's comic take on The Bachelor and Sharlene Allsopp reckons with Australia's history.
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Hisham Matar and Ela Lee on the friendships that save you
5 februari 2024 · 54 min
Pulitzer Prize winning Libyan author Hisham Matar on friendship in political exile and British author Ela Lee on the power of friendship at times of personal crisis.
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Kiley Reid, Rachael Johns and Iain Ryan on money, love and corruption
29 januari 2024 · 54 min
Kiley Reid's follow up to Such a Fun Age in a campus novel that she says isn't a campus novel, Rachael Johns' love story about a woman called Bridget Jones and Iain Ryan's hardboiled take on Gold Coast corruption in the 1980s.
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Michael Cunningham and Madeleine Gray on romance and relationship breakdown
22 januari 2024 · 54 min
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham's latest novel Day explores a bromance, Madeleine Gray on writing a funny "sad girl novel" and Jessica Zhan Mei Yu on Sylvia Plath and up-ending the coming of age story.
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Fakes and Frauds 05 | A big hoax — Wanda Koolmatrie and My Own Sweet Time
16 januari 2024
My Own Sweet Time was a memoir said to be written by Wanda Koolmatrie, a member of the Aboriginal stolen generations. But it was a hoax and this episode of Fakes and Frauds explores the long lasting impacts of the hoax particularly on Aboriginal Australian writers. Lees meer
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Pip Williams, Shankari Chandran and Josh Kemp on bookbinding, bushwalking and book awards
15 januari 2024 · 54 min
Pip Williams' follow up to her bestselling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words, Josh Kemp on how bushwalking helps his writing and the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, Shankari Chandran.
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Fakes and Frauds 04 | Fake identity and Helen Demidenko's The Hand that Signed the Paper
8 januari 2024 · 40 min
The Helen Demidenko scandal tore the Australian literary community apart in the 1990s. This episode of Fakes and Frauds charts the rise and downfall of Helen Demidenko and the impacts on the book world.
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John Boyne, Esther Freud, Louise Kennedy and the Irish voice
8 januari 2024 · 54 min
Is there such thing as an Irish voice in fiction?
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Fakes and Frauds 03 | Fabrication and lies in Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under
2 januari 2024 · 34 min
Cannibalism, telepathy and celibacy are just some of the false claims about Australian Aboriginal people that Marlo Morgan made in her 1990s new age hit, Mutant Message Down Under, and this episode of Fakes and Frauds exposes the lies.
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Ian McEwan's most personal novel, plus Booker winner Paul Lynch
1 januari 2024 · 54 min
Booker winner Ian McEwan explores his 1960s childhood in his latest novel and reigning Booker winner Paul Lynch on his unflinching dystopian novel set in Ireland.
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Fakes and Frauds 02 | Fact or fiction in Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love
26 december 2023 · 37 min
Find out how to catch a con-artist in this episode of Fakes and Frauds that delves into the fake memoir Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri 20 years after the book was first published.
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Pulitzer Prize winners Barbara Kingsolver and Hernán Diaz
25 december 2023 · 54 min
The two winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction are both about money but at opposite ends of the spectrum — Barbara Kingsolver's is about poverty while Hernán Diaz's is about astronomical wealth.
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Fakes and Frauds 01 | Plagiarism scandal in The Dogs by John Hughes
19 december 2023 · 32 min
Fakes and Frauds is a new series that unpacks famous Australian literary scandals. The first and most recent controversy was the discovery of plagiarism in the work of award winning Australian writer John Hughes. Find out how the plagiarism was uncovered and why it matters. Lees meer
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Ego and creativity with Anna Funder and Paul Jennings
18 december 2023 · 54 min
Australian writers Anna Funder and Paul Jennings on what it takes to be a writer.
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Naomi Alderman and Charlotte Wood on bunkers, billionaires and nuns
11 december 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
Naomi Alderman takes on tech giants and survivalists in a novel that imagines the end of the world, and an atheist joins a monastery in Charlotte Wood's meditative new book.
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Amanda Lohrey, Matthew Reilly and Katherine Brabon on the sacred, swimming and Einstein
4 december 2023 · 54 min
Miles Franklin winner Amanda Lohrey asks where we find community in our secular world, Matthew Reilly's latest adventure and the restorative power of the pool with Katherine Brabon.
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Pod extra with the Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch
27 november 2023 · 19 min
Paul Lynch is the 2023 Booker Prize winner for his novel Prophet Song. Prophet Song (Bloomsbury) is an unflinching dystopian novel set in Ireland where a populist government has taken control and becoming increasingly authoritarian. Activists are being disappeared and the main character Eilish Stack is trying to keep her family together. Paul Lynch spoke to the Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange about the writer's responsibility to truth and how to craft a novel that resembles myth. Lees meer
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Richard Flanagan on the atomic bomb, HG Wells and a kiss
27 november 2023 · 54 min
Booker winner Richard Flanagan on why writing his latest book Question 7 "felt like a strange dream". Also, the artist's muse in fiction and how a mistake led to Laura Jean McKay's latest book.
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Tony Birch and Christos Tsiolkas on love, shame and dangerous dinner-parties
20 november 2023 · 54 min
Two very different writers explore the dynamics of family and violence: Tony Birch in a 1960s working class, Catholic family and Christos Tsiolkas in middle-aged gay relationships.
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Booker Prize shortlist — mythical, profound and lyrical
13 november 2023 · 54 min
In the lead up to the 2023 Booker Prize award, we dive into the six shortlisted novels and meet the authors.
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"We don't come from nowhere" — Melissa Lucashenko on her historical novel Edenglassie
6 november 2023 · 54 min
Brisbane is in the spotlight with Melissa Lucashenko exploring the early days of the colony in time for the city's bicentenary and debut novelist Melanie Saward's story of a troubled teen with an attraction to fire.
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Haunting fiction with Shehan Karunatilaka, Steve Toltz and many more
30 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Things are getting spooky on The Book Show, as we explore ghostly fiction. Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka and Australian Steve Toltz will imagine the afterlife with their beyond-the-grave novels. Jennifer Mills, SJ Norman and Kevin Jared Hosein will tell you about the ghosts haunting their books, and Josh Kemp and Michelle Johnston will take you to the ghost towns that inspired their fiction. Lees meer
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Between two worlds with Jesmyn Ward, Graham Akhurst and Anna McGahan
23 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Three authors on the spirits and spirituality at the heart of their novels - award winning US author Jesmyn Ward's lyrical novel about slavery, Indigenous author Graham Akhurt's terrifying dog man in his debut novel, and Anna McGahan on her former membership of a Pentecostal church that informs her Vogel Literary Award winning book. Lees meer
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"It began with a crime" — Cassandra Clare's latest fantasy fiction
16 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Bestselling fantasy author Cassandra Clare draws on her Jewish background in her first novel for adults, Kareem Abdulrahman on translating Kurdish Iraqi author Bachtyar Ali and Mirandi Riwoe's jasmine drenched historical novel.
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Trent Dalton on homelessness, hope and the tyrannosaurus waltz
9 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Trent Dalton's foray into Brisbane's underworld in his third novel, Leah Kaminsky's story of dolls and exile and Peter Polities on mothers and sons.
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Jeanette Winterson on avatars and the afterlife, plus Kate Mildenhall
2 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Two writers imagine how technology will shape our future: Jeanette Winterson talks about how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Australian writer Kate Mildenhall imagines an algorithm to save the world.
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Sebastian Faulks and what makes us human
25 september 2023 · 54 min
Sebastian Faulks on what makes us human, Emily Perkins takes on female rage and Jane Harrison digs into Australian history to bring us The Visitors.
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Booker Prize winner: Margaret Atwood
18 september 2023 · 26 min
It's Booker Prize season so The Book Show has gathered interviews with some of the most recent winners for you. Here's Margaret Atwood who won the prize for a second time in 2019, sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo for her novel The Testaments, a sequel to her popular The Handmaid's Tale. Lees meer
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Booker Prize winner: Damon Galgut
18 september 2023 · 26 min
It's Booker Prize season so The Book Show has gathered interviews with some of the most recent winners for you. Here's South African writer Damon Galgut who won the prize in 2021 for The Promise, a novel which explores recent South African history through the changing fortunes of a white family. Lees meer
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Booker Prize winner: Shehan Karunatilaka
18 september 2023 · 25 min
It's Booker Prize season so The Book Show has gathered interviews with some of the most recent winners for you. Here's Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka who won the prize in 2022 for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, set during the Sri Lankan civil war with a ghost for a narrator. Lees meer
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Booker Prize winner: George Saunders
18 september 2023 · 18 min
It's Booker Prize season so The Book Show has gathered interviews with some of the most recent winners for you. Here's American short story writer, essayist and novelist George Saunders who won in 2017 for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo, set in the cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son is buried. Lees meer
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Booker Prize winner: Douglas Stuart
18 september 2023 · 16 min
It's Booker Prize season so The Book Show has gathered interviews with some of the most recent winners for you. Here's Scottish author Douglas Stuart who won in 2020 for his devastating novel Shuggie Bain, set in the poverty stricken housing estates of 1980s Glasgow. Lees meer