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Interviews Archives
LISTEN: Christos Tsiolkas on Damascus
“What connects Damascus to my other books is a search for what makes a good life.” Read more
LISTEN: Frances Whiting on The Best Kind of Beautiful
"I think there’s a lot of beauty in vulnerability.” Read more
LISTEN: Tara Moss on Dead Man Switch
"I ended up creating a character basically that I want to hang out with.” Read more
Read a Q&A with Grantlee Kieza, author of Macquarie
"I’m always fascinated by the role of Australians in the wider history of the world." Read more
Read a Q&A with Bri Lee, author of Beauty and Eggshell Skull
"Writing the book made me ask some hard questions about my own complicity in the system I was trying to critique." Read more
LISTEN: Charlotte Wood on The Weekend
“There’s kind of a before-and-after The Natural Way of Things.” Read more
The 2019 PM’s Literary Award nominees on the books they wish they’d written
Books by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Ottessa Moshfegh and more! Read more
LISTEN: Tony Jones on In Darkness Visible
"It’s probably a lifetime learning experience becoming a novelist." Read more
LISTEN: Elliot Perlman on Maybe the Horse Will Talk
'I knew that the rest of my life could not be like this." Read more