Memory, lost conversations and almost-fathers-and sons in Ben Lerner's Transcription; children divided by the throw of a dice, and that's just the start of it, in Steve Toltz's A Rising of the Lights; no such thing as unskilled labour, in Siân Hughes' No Such Thing as Monday, where a woman works as a drycleaner, trying desperately to rid herself of the stains of her childhood; new crime releases, and an Australian in Hollywood is reconsidered. Kate and Cassie with reviewers Michael Robotham and Geordie Williamson.
BOOKS
Ben Lerner, Transcription, Granta
Steve Toltz, A Rising of the Lights, Penguin
Siân Hughes, No Such Thing as Monday, Penguin
Tana French, The Keeper, Viking Penguin
Candice Fox, Redbelly Crossing, Penguin
Patricia A. O'Brien, Errol Flynn: The true story of Australia's Hollywood Icon, Allen & Unwin
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GUESTS
Michael Robotham is an internationally-acclaimed crime writer whose books include the Joseph O'Loughlan and Evie Cormac series. His latest novel is The White Crow — and his next one, Tell Me Something True, will be his first to be set in Australia
Geordie Wiliamson is a literary critic, writer and publisher at Picador, whose books include a critical study of Alexis Wright in the Black Inc Writers on Writers series; and The Burning Library — on neglected Australian writers
Other books mentioned in the discussion
Karl Ove Knausgård, works
Rachel Cusk, works
W G Sebald, works
Alexander Kluge, works
David Foster Wallace, works
Jonathan Franzen, works
Wallace Stevens, works
Les Murray, works
Saul Bellow, works
Philip Roth, works
P D James, works
Agatha Christie, works
Sam Twyford-Moore, Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home
CREDITS
Presenters: Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
Producers: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett, Tracey Trompf
Sound Engineers: Craig Tilmouth, Roi Huberman
A/ Arts Editor: Sarah Corbett
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