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CULTURE

May 2013

Chad Harbach on The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach is the author of one of the most talked about novels of 2011, The Art of Fielding. This dazzling debut novel, about a baseball team in a small Midwest campus, is an...
May 2013

An Evening with Jeanette Winterson

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

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....
The nominal rewards of football

Ayce names in the AFL

By Peter Cronin
AFL footballers’ names in 2013 suitable for jockeys and unsuccessful petty criminals Jimmy Bartel, Billie Smedts (first prize), Jack Viney, Lenny Hayes, Eddie Betts, Sam Siggins   Names suitable for an aide-de-camp, equerry, viceroy or other diplomatic posting Henry Slattery, Will Hoskin-Elliott, James Polkinghorne, George Horlin-
April 2013

Edward St Aubyn In Conversation. Adelaide Writers' Week

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

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

You Aren't What You Eat – Steven Poole

In the age of Masterchef, Jamie, Nigella and too much gastro-porn, Steven Poole is a tonic. You Aren’t What You Eat is his very smart (and hilarious) polemic against the new food culture. At Adelaide Writers’ Week, he tells Caroline Baum about it. March 2
April 2013

The Fishing Fleet – Anne de Courcy

Criticially acclaimed British biographer Anne de Courcy, at Adelaide Writers’ Week audience, paints a fascinating portrait of ‘husband-hunting in the Raj’, the subject of her new book. Adelaide, March 2013
March 2013

Ahdaf Soueif: On Art and Politics

At the Perth Writers Festival, the Man Booker Prize shortlisted writer Ahdaf Soueif explores the intersection between art and politics in this unforgettable Opening Address. February 2013
March 2013

The Yellow Birds. Kevin Powers, Perth Writers Festival

Author Kevin Powers discusses his book The Yellow Birds, Perth Writers Festival 2013
March 2013

'The Childhood of Jesus' – JM Coetzee

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

Les Murray, discussing early Australian poetry. University of Sydney

Poet Les Murray puts on his anthologist's hat and introduces his favourites amongst Australia's early English-language poets.Sydney University(Part 1 of 2) Click here for...
March 2013

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

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

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

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

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

David Mitchell in conversation with Geordie Williamson

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

Medium raw. Anthony Bourdain in conversation

Anthony Bourdain perhaps more than anyone else on earth can lay claim to the invention of the 'celebrity chef'. In this Sydney Writers' Festival session he tells...
March 2013

Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question

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...