Podcast

“America is obsessed with its own failure”: Emmett Stinson

Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection.

Podcast roadmap: Washington DC; corpses; Capgras syndrome; the best place to buy drugs in America; The Education of Henry Adams; spoiling the end of The Great Gatsby; failure in the American tradition; Phantoms in the Brain; the terrible ending of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road; the disintegration of systems; rampant individualism; how the writing brain is informed by the editorial brain; the Federal Government’s Book Industry Strategy Group.

Visit Emmett Stinson’s blog.

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Music is Pompey.

• Affirm Press
• American literature
• Australian literature
• Emmett Stinson
• short stories

1. 
   Zoe Dattner, co-founder and Creative Director of Sleepers Publishing
   

   Estelle Tang
2. 
   Stories with hooks: Gretchen Shirm’s Having Cried Wolf
   

   Estelle Tang
3. 
   The diplomat, the midwife and the handmaiden: Emma Schwarcz on the Residential Editorial Program
   

   Estelle Tang
4. 
   ‘If it’s all laughs, you’re not really telling the story’: Benjamin Law
   

   Estelle Tang