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Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.
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Average audio length:
33 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
208 episodes
since Aug. 14, 2007
episodic
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Hemat Malek reads from and talks about her new poetry book Shelf Life. We talk about how the book came together as a collection, how the poems 'converse', some of the key themes in the book, the title (and title poem), on memoir in verse, the mother and father poems, racism, transformation, her fav…
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Rebecca Higgie reads from and talks about her new book The Book of the After. We talk about such things as how the book came together, climate change and choosing 2049 as a story starting point, life and death, what remains, Guy Fawkes as a character, her main protagonists Negus and Eleanor, love, …
The author of Brood Chamber reads from and talks about her new poetry book. We cover such things as how the book came together and what drew Annie to poetry, some of her key themes - family ties and ancestry, letting go, ecology, Greed mythology, languages and lots more.
Find a copy of Brood Chamb…
The author of How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort reads from and talks about her new poetry book. We cover such ground as her world tour for the book, climate change and bushfire, the book's title and the connection between cities and the natural world, protective spells and human culpabi…
Kris Kneen joins us to read from and talk about their new book Rite of Spring. We talk about such things as lighthouses, Stravinsky, voices in harmony, transformation/becoming, menopause, Spring, metaphors, the more-than-human, the book's two main characters, their projects-in-hand, and lots more. …
Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss joins us to read from and talk about his latest poetry book, Hybrid Heaven. We talk about the books key themes, how it came together as a collection, the nature of hybridity, the book's sonics, history, language, humour and lots more.
Andrew's website: https://www.agkm…
Multi-talented, multimedia Canberra-based lecturer, visual artist, philosopher and writer Sarah Rice joins us to read from and talk about her newest book Alight on all things precious. We talk about how the book came together, about the way it brings together seemingly disparate things - disciplin…
Mandy Sayer reads from and talks about her latest book No Dancing in the Lift. We talk about such things as the book and how it came to her, the legend of her father, jazz drummer Gerry Sayer, with the reality as she cared for him through his illness and death, her mother and often violent stepfath…
Anne Casey drops by to read from and talk about her latest book Seang (Hungering). Anne talks about how the book came about including how she found her "girls" at the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls, pathway to PhD thesis, importance of the mother tongue (Gaeilge, which she speaks s…
In this guest interview between publicist David Carriere and author Zach Taylor, Zach reads from and talks about his new book ROCKSTAR: Echoes. They talk about the genesis of the book and the broader series, the ways that Zach, a NASA Engineer, manages to squeeze in writing time (even amidst the Ar…
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