Literature

May 2013

An Evening with Jeanette Winterson

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At the Sydney Opera House for the Sydney Writers' Festival, Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and talks about books, life,...

May 2013

Geoff Dyer in Conversation, Sydney Writers' Festival

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Geoff Dyer (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Paris Trance and many wonderful other books) is renowned for his discursive approach to an almost impossibly wide range of subjects....

May 2013

The Childhood of Jesus – A Monthly Book Discussion

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The Monthly Book: Ramona Koval discusses The Childhood of Jesus (JM Coetzee) with author Craig Sherborne and journalist and writer Erik Jensen. The Childhood of Jesus is the Monthly Book’s April 2013 selection.

April 2013

Edward St Aubyn In Conversation. Adelaide Writers' Week

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British novelist Edward St Aubyn's acclaimed novels tell the story of a profoundly dysfunctional upper-class family, the Melroses. The previous in the series, Mother's Milk, was Booker-shortlisted. The latest is At Last. He speaks to Michael Cathcart

April 2013

Art and Crime – Peter Robb, Perth Writers Festival

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At the Perth Writers Festival, acclaimed author Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily, M, Streetfight in Naples, Lives) speaks about two subjects that have long fascinated him. February 2013

April 2013

Inside the Imagination of China Mieville

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Likened to Kafka, Orwell and Philip K Dick, China Mieville’s innovative, genre-busting novels and nonfiction have helped redefine fantasy and science fiction for our times. At Perth Writers Festival, he talks to James Bradley. February 2013

The slash pile

The cheap thrills of fan fiction

By Linda Jaivin

Ever imagined Paul Keating and Germaine Greer getting it on to the rhythm of Keating’s Redfern speech? Jennifer Byrne has. Brendan Cowell has done it with a bhang lassi–infused Aussie cricket team. Noni Hazlehurst, Toby Schmitz and I have done it too –

Brides revisited

Margaret Atwood comes to Perth

By Chloe Hooper

“Oh, boy, that’s a ghostly-looking thing!” Margaret Atwood, the grand dame of Canadian letters, is impressed by an antique lace veil suspended alone in a glass exhibit case. A slight woman with high, translucent cheekbones and very pale bl

March 2013

'The Childhood of Jesus' – JM Coetzee

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The Monthly Book: Ramona Koval, host of The Monthly Book, speaks to writer and philosopher Raimond Gaita about JM Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus. Buy the book here.

March 2013

Michelle de Kretser, in conversation with Gail Jones. Sydney Writers' Festival

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Michelle de Kretser discusses her writing, in particular her new novel The Lost Dog, with Gail Jones at the Sydney Writers' Festival.Sydney, May 2008(Part 1 of 2) Click here...

March 2013

Kate Grenville in conversation with Ramona Koval

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In Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville returns to the family at the centre of her best-known work, the internationally bestselling novel The Secret River. She discusses writing about...

March 2013

Robyn Davidson, Meet the Author session. Adelaide Writers' Week

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Robyn Davidson discusses and reads from an as-yet-unpublished memoir in this Meet the Author session from Adelaide Writers' Week. (Part 1 of 2)

March 2013

Helen Garner on her influences and inspirations. Sydney Writers' Festival

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In this segment of the 'Writers as Readers' session at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2008, Helen Garner speaks about the inspirations and influences on her writing.

March 2013

Christos Tsiolkas on his influences and inspirations. Sydney Writers' Festival

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In this segment of the 'Writers as Readers' session at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Christos Tsiolkas talks about inspirations and influences on him and his...

March 2013

David Mitchell in conversation with Geordie Williamson

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David Mitchell is one of the most inventive and skilled fiction writers of our time. In this much-anticipated Sydney Writers' Festival session, he speaks to The...

March 2013

David Malouf - Adelaide Writers' Week

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David Malouf presents selected readings of his work and discusses them with J.M. Coetzee.(Part 1 of 2)

March 2013

All That I Am. Anna Funder in Conversation

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Anna Funder's All That I Am has become the most awarded Australian novel of the year. In this evening of intimacies and revelations, Anna tells facilitator Anne Summers about...

March 2013

Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question

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Howard Jacobson, recipient of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, has revived the comic mode in fiction. In this Sydney Writers’ Festival event he talks with...