Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 208:32:43
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Synopsis
BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episodes
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Novels by Téa Obreht, Wai Chim and Vasily Grossman (and a booklist from Julia Phillips)
16/08/2019 Duration: 01h01minA Western, a war saga and a plate of dumplings. Téa Obreht's Inland, Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad, Wai Chim's The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling and writer Julia Phillips with 'Me Myshelf and I.'
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On Alix Nathan's The Warlow Experiment, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow and Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women
09/08/2019 Duration: 01h09minWriter Bri Lee and broadcaster Joey Watson join Kate and Cassie to talk new fiction by Alix Nathan, David Nicholls and Lisa See, while novelist Lenny Bartulin reveals 'Me Myshelf and I'
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Reading the Counterculture
02/08/2019 Duration: 01h01minThree music writers and a whole lotta books.
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Kathryn Hind's Hitch, Herman Koch's The Ditch and Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
26/07/2019 Duration: 54minWriters Luke Carman and Laura Elizabeth Woollett join Kate and Cassie to review new novels from Australia, the USA and the Netherlands.
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On Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat, Peter Polites' The Pillars and Me Myshelf and I with Sulari Gentill
19/07/2019 Duration: 54minCritic and digital producer Patrick Carey joins Kate and Cassie as they discuss Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat and Peter Polites' The Pillars, while crime writer Sulari Gentill reveals the books that have influenced her in our newly-named segment, 'Me Myshelf and I'
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Monsters in fiction with Sarah Perry
12/07/2019 Duration: 54minLiterary monsters with gothic writer Sarah Perry, an over-the-top monster in Thomas Harris' new novel Cari Mora, and a monstrous system in Philip Kerr's Metropolis
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New fiction from Ocean Vuong, Colson Whitehead and Sarah Hopkins
05/07/2019 Duration: 59minIncarceration, possibility and punishment in fiction. Historian Ethan Blue and commentator Mark Sutton join Cassie and Kate to discuss new fiction from Colson Whitehead (The Nickel Boys), Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous) and Sarah Hopkins (The Subjects)
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On Tara June Winch's The Yield, Tony Birch's The White Girl and Julia Phillips' Disappearing Earth
28/06/2019 Duration: 54minNovelists Malla Nunn and Aoife Clifford join Cassie and Kate to review new novels from Tara June Winch, Tony Birch and Julia Phillips
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On Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island and the reading habits of Robert Forster and Fiona McGregor
21/06/2019 Duration: 54minMusician and writer Robert Forster (solo artist, ex-Go Betweens), and novelist and performance artist Fiona McGregor (A Novel Idea) join Kate and Cassie to talk books, reading, reviews and (in a surprising confluence of fictional themes) silent film in the first decade of the twentieth century
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Bookshelf Podcast Extra with Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Simon Cleary and Emma Ashmere
19/06/2019 Duration: 55minBonus interviews and book recommendation from novelists Damian Barr, Andrea Goldsmith, Simon Cleary and Emma Ashmere and poet and filmmaker Nguyen Phan Que Mai
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On Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, Chip Cheek's Cape May and Alex Landrigan's Crossings
14/06/2019 Duration: 53minNovelists Emma Ashmere and Simon Cleary join Kate and Cassie to discuss new fiction by Damian Barr, Chip Cheek and Alex Landrigan; and Damian Barr himself comes along to talk about the books that have shaped him
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On James Ellroy's This Storm, Tishani Doshi's Small Days and Nights and Elizabeth Cook's Lux
07/06/2019 Duration: 54minCassie and Kate are joined by literary academic Rodney Taveira and historian and RN colleague Meredith Lake as they discuss new fiction from the noir-ish James Ellroy, the biblical Elizabeth Cook and the dog-obsessed Tishani Doshi
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On Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls and Richard Anderson's Boxed
31/05/2019 Duration: 54minBrett Evans and Anthea Taylor join Cassie and Kate to discuss new novels by Susan Choi, Elizabeth Gilbert and Richard Anderson, and Irish writer Caolinn Hughes reveals the books that have shaped her.
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On Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha and Annaleese Jochems, Baby
24/05/2019 Duration: 53minKate and Cassie are joined by writers Lee Kofman and Rozanna Lilley as they discuss Jeanette Winterson's playful homage Frankissstein, Guzel Yakhina's Russian epic Zuleikha and Annaleese Jochems' dark New Zealand debut, Baby
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Podcast Extra on traumatic reading, Chris Womersley's bookshelf and Julianne Schultz's digital futures
23/05/2019 Duration: 58minWhat does it mean if reading becomes an endurance test in the face of trauma? Critic Beejay Silcox asks what it means to read books that are pointlessly distressing. Also, gothic Australian writer Chris Womersley on the bookshelf that made him, an extended interview with Julianne Schultz and reading recommendations from Sarah Kanowski, Justine Hyde and Catherine Keenan
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On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Americans & how digital is disrupting reading
17/05/2019 Duration: 54minKate Evans is joined by broadcaster Sarah Kanowski, writer Justine Hyde and Catherine Keenan from The Story Factory to discuss new fiction from Ali Smith, Mark Haddon and Laila Lalami; and Julianne Schultz from the Griffith Review reflects on reading for 'digital natives'.
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Podcast extra on Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree and Jay Kristoff and Amie Kauffman's Aurora Rising
16/05/2019 Duration: 50minIn this podcast extra edition of The Bookshelf, Kate Evans talks to English fantasy writer Samantha Shannon about the bookshelf that made her and Shannon's latest novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree; while authors of Aurora Rising Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, speak about the practicalities of writing collaboratively and why laughter matters.
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On Rohan Wilson's Daughter of Bad Times, Hallie Rubenhold's The Five and Kauffman & Kristoff's YA SF Aurora Rising
10/05/2019 Duration: 54minFictionalising both the future and the past, with the help of Antony Funnell and the dystopian novel Daughter of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson, the YA SF Aurora Rising by Amie Kauffman and Jay Kristoff (#loveOzYA) and the battle between history and fiction with historian Hallie Rubenhold and The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers Festival
03/05/2019 Duration: 55minOn Friday 3 May Kate and Cassie present the Bookshelf live onstage from the Sydney Writers Festival with guests English novelist Max Porter, American writer Alexander Chee and Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite.
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Podcast extra on NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Les Murray, translation in China and Holly Throsby's bookshelf
01/05/2019 Duration: 51minA podcast only edition of the Bookshelf, in which Kate Evans talks to Suzanne Leal about this week's NSW Premier's Literary Awards, to Chinese acquisitions editor Li Kangqin about reading in China, and novelist Holly Throsby reveals the bookshelf that made her.