Category Archives: Podcast
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Stories with hooks: Gretchen Shirm’s Having Cried Wolf
Gretchen Shirm is the author of Having Cried Wolf, a collection of interwoven short stories published by Affirm Press through their ‘Long Story Shorts’ venture. I spoke with Gretchen about her debut collection, writing and her other life as a lawyer. Podcast roadmap: novels that don’t work … Read more
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Kabita Dhara of Brass Monkey Books: “They’re outsiders in the place they grew up in”
Kabita Dhara is the publisher at Brass Monkey Books, an imprint of Hunter Publishers. On a residency last year in India, she scoured the fiction market for books to bring home to Australia, and the first catch was Anjum Hasan’s Lunatic in My Head. I spoke to … Read more
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The diplomat, the midwife and the handmaiden: Emma Schwarcz on the Residential Editorial Program
Emma Schwarcz set on the path to becoming an editor ten years ago, when a friend of her mother asked her if she was willing to be the handmaiden to someone else’s success. Earlier this year, she attended the Residential Editorial Program at Varuna House. The program, … Read more
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‘If it’s all laughs, you’re not really telling the story’: Benjamin Law
Podcast roadmap: A bit of time travel to Brisbane, 1989; having a family with a wrong sense of humour; five editors inside (or outside) your head; mothers being mortifying but quotable; Cantonese lessons on where to wash; ‘There’s nothing wrong with being gay – it just means … Read more
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“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 … Read more
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‘The blog ecology is always changing’ – Interview with Rachael Kendrick [podcast]
There’s nothing like the hospitality of a food blogger on an autumn eve. Cradling a little glass bottle of chinotto in my gloved hands, I spoke to Rachael Kendrick of Thus Bakes Zarathustra, Motor Coconut, The Vine (click on that last one for sure – I ate of that … Read more
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Voyage and destination: Joel Magarey’s Exposure
In 1995, Joel Magarey up left his job as a journalist, and his beloved girlfriend Penny, to ‘track across the hurtling world’. Journeying to some of the most remote places in the world, Joel embarked upon an odyssey of sorts – geographical, sexual and psychological. His trek … Read more
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Interview with Karen Andrews of Miscellaneous Press
Earlier this month, Miscellaneous Voices #1: Australian Blog Writing was launched. The collection contains writing by Jessica Au, James Bradley, Maxine Clarke, Tiggy Johnson and Damon Young, as well as the work of many other writers. Geordie Williamson wrote in the Australian that its arrival indicated that … Read more
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Format Festival Academy of Words
Format Festival‘s Academy of Words was held on 14th March. Panels were held all day at the zine space on Peel Street, Adelaide, including Criticism and Reviewing, It’s all gone Dave Eggers: the current state of literature in Australia and The Great Zine Explosion. Clementine Ford (also … Read more
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Inflamed: Chris Flynn on Kindling Torpedo
For the inaugural Killings podcast, I spoke with Torpedo‘s editor, Chris Flynn. Torpedo 7 was released just this week – and it’s only available in non-paper form. Chris caused a stir in local publishing channels by making Torpedo the first literary journal in Australia – and the … Read more
