Poetry

Reunion: Andrea Goldsmith in conversation with Drusilla Modjeska

Drusilla Modjeska

Part 1 | Part 2Andrea Goldsmith talks about poetry, fiction, science, death and her new book Reunion with Drusilla Modjeska, at the Sydney...

CULTURE

A standard conversation with DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre

Part 1 | Part 2Darkly comic Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) holds forth at this wine-drinking, perfume-spraying early...

CULTURE

Richard Flanagan: Closing address, Sydney Writers' Festival

Richard Flanagan

Part 1 | Part 2 In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers' Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on...

CULTURE

The late, great Patrick White. Feat. David Marr, Kerry Walker

David Marr

Kerry Walker

Part 1 | Part 2 Launching its series on Australian literary legends, The Wheeler Centre presents this talk about the incomparable Nobel...

CULTURE

Literary Criticism: Why and How?: Simon Leys

Simon Leys

Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit....

ENVIRONMENT

Ann Patchett at the Melbourne Writers Festival

Ann Patchett's Bel Canto won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and Run was a New York Times bestseller. At the Melbourne...

SOCIETY

1835: The Founding of Melbourne. James Boyce in Conversation

In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney,...

CULTURE

All That I Am. Anna Funder In Conversation

Anna Funder

Anna Funder is the author of the bestselling Stasiland, an examination of life in communist East Germany and the winner of the 2004 Samuel...

CULTURE

Her Father's Daughter. Alice Pung in Conversation

Following her acclaimed debut Unpolished Gem, Alice Pung has delved further into her family history in Her Father's Daughter. Set in...