Category Archives: Podcast
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Podcast: ‘Not down to the skeleton, but down to the marrow’ – Romy Ash’s Floundering
Romy Ash’s debut novel, Floundering, tells the story of Tom and Jordy, who have been living with their grandparents since their mother disappeared. We spoke to Romy about how to make your characters talk, sibling relationships, ventriloquism and constraints. Read more
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Podcast: Lawrence Leung’s beginning, middle and end
What makes a story? Is it the structure, the way you tell it, the characters within? Lawrence Leung and I got together to discuss erotic fan fiction, the best way to tell stories, untrue stories and the elusive Ira Glass. Lawrence Leung is an award-winning Australian comedian … Read more
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Podcast: Michael Sala’s family affairs
Truth is often relative, and in no context is it more so – pardon the pun – than when considering family relationships. In the first Kill Your Darlings podcast for 2012, we speak to Michael Sala, author of The Last Thread – a work of fiction that … Read more
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Podcast: Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam is the author of acclaimed novel Things We Didn’t See Coming, and his new book, What the Family Needed, has been called ‘a wonderfully fresh perspective on families’, as well as ‘a probing exploration of familial love and forbearance’. In What the Family Needed, members … Read more
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Culture Club podcast: Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote
No, you haven’t accidentally stumbled into the eighties: the Kill Your Darlings Culture Club podcast is where we get together with some of our favourite people to discuss cultural items, be they books, plays or films. This time around, we are attacking Miguel de Cervantes’ masterwork Don … Read more
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‘Uncomfortable places’: Michelle Aung Thin’s The Monsoon Bride
It’s 1930. Winsome McLintock is a convent girl about to marry a man she barely knows, and she will follow him to Rangoon, the then capital of Burma. Rangoon is a rich and exciting city, but it’s also full of tension – the wealthy British residents live … Read more
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Podcast: Alex Menglet, Bell Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has its share of memorable lines – to this day we beware the Ides of March or beseech our friends, Romans and countrymen to hear us. But though it’s sometimes thought of as the Shakespeare’s boring toga story, its absorbing tale of power, friendship … Read more
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Podcast: Melanie Joosten’s Berlin Syndrome
Picture this: a young Australian woman is waiting at the traffic lights in East Berlin when a tall man with curly hair asks her if she likes strawberries. She says yes, a seemingly small decision that leads to bigger ones, decisions so big that her life changes … Read more
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Christopher Currie’s The Ottoman Motel
Simon and his parents are on a family holiday and land in a small town called Reception. The town both lives up to its name and makes a mockery of it; the young boy finds new friends, but his parents go missing. The smaller a town, the … Read more
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Surveillance and the City: Meg Mundell’s Black Glass
Meg Mundell’s Black Glass envisions a future Melbourne where individuals without official documentation are relegated to the socioeconomic margins and the relationship between the public and private aspects of our lives .. Read more
