Podcast appearances and mentions of anna smaill

Jenna reviews Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill's novel, Bird Life. Whakarongo mai nei!  

Auckland Art Gallery's coordinating curator of the exhibition Guo Pei: Fashion, Art, Fantasy, Margaret Young-Sanchez is in the studio for Fashun. We listen to a chat Rachel had with Julie Byrne about her recent record, The Greater Wings, and her show in Auckland in the new year. On Loose Reads Jenna reviews Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill's novel, Bird Life. Whakarongo mai nei!

Airini Beautrais reviews Bird Life by Anna Smaill published by Te Herenga Waka University Press

New Zealand writer Anna Smaill's first novel The Chimes made the Man Booker Prize long list in 2015. She's just released Bird Life, an exploration of madness and what it's like to experience the world differently. Set in Japan, it follows an unlikely friendship between two women.

In the Sound Series I’ll be talking to 18 writers, musicians and other artists about how sound features in their work. Today Anna Smaill and David Long talk to Pip Adam about two sound objects. To hear these sounds and for information about how to submit responses to exercises to our Showcase can be found on our website https://better-read.com

An in-depth conversation with writer (and friend) Carl Shuker. We talk about the long road to his new book, A Mistake. We go back to his childhood in Timaru and work from there to the IIML in Wellington when Bill Manhire was at the helm. To Carl meeting Katy (now my wife) and Anna Smaill (his wife). To the influences that shaped him and the insecurities that can still plague. This is a long chat - over many drinks - discussing our friendship, parenting, writing and many shared experiences as well as Carl's journey from Timaru to being one of New Zealand's greatest living novelists.

An in-depth conversation with writer (and friend) Carl Shuker. We talk about the long road to his new book, A Mistake. We go back to his childhood in Timaru and work from there to the IIML in Wellington when Bill Manhire was at the helm. To Carl meeting Katy (now my wife) and Anna Smaill (his wife). To the influences that shaped him and the insecurities that can still plague. This is a long chat - over many drinks - discussing our friendship, parenting, writing and many shared experiences as well as Carl's journey from Timaru to being one of New Zealand's greatest living novelists. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

Amanda and Jenn discuss immigrant stories, royalty, close friendships, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.     Questions 1. Hello! I am wondering if you have any recommendations of any books about royalty in other countries besides the U.S. and Britain. I would prefer fiction, but am open to non fiction too! Thanks for all your amazing recommendations! --Marissa   2. Hi! I recently pick up reading more voraciously again after a several year drought. I started listening to this podcast from the beginning and have already devoured a whole bunch of the recommended comics. I typically fall into a pattern of reading through whole series very quickly because I'm a tad bit obsessive, you could call me a binge reader in that sense. I was hoping you could provide some recommendations that will challenge me from a story perspective (not a writing style), with some more deep/emotional themes. I'm kind of over the mystery thriller, vampires, Harry Potter type books. Thanks, --Courtney   3. I am a lover of books and read since I was a child, now that I have children of my own I want to pass that on to my girls. My dilemma is my 11yo doesn't love to read, or even like to unless she has to for school. So my question is, can you recommend some books that will maybe jump start her love of reading. She just finished Eragon for school and claims she didn't like it, but I know better, she was talking to the book. She’s a very girly girl if that helps. --Melli   4. Hi guys, I was hoping you could recommend me some fiction that focuses on the immigrant experience in America. I recently read and loved Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue and I would love to find more like it. I'm currently reading Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie but I'm not sure where else to look. Thanks! --Katherine   5. Basically: I'm looking for fiction in which the characters a) have extremely close friendships and b) take care of each other's mental/physical health. If that makes sense? Examples: A Little Life and the ways in which everyone takes care of Jude, or The Rest of Us Just Live Here and the ways in which, well, everybody in that book takes care of everybody else. Caveats: In spite of the example above, I generally don't like YA. --Alex   6. Hi Amanda & Jenn, Love the show, especially how enthusiastic you are about all the books you are recommending! I would like a recommendation myself. In the summer I love walking/hiking and climbing outdoors. Now that it's winter I'm spending more time with a book on the couch. It would be great to read about the activities I'm missing. I loved Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Into the Wild. Also love books with extensive walking like The Hobbit (Fantasy is definitely allowed) and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I haven't been able to find many novels about climbing/with climber(s), so that would be a bonus. Not a big fan of non-fiction, although I thought The Places in Between by Rory Stewart was amazing. Thanks so much! --Lea   7. I stopped reading for awhile (blame Netflix and Hulu) and have recently gotten back in the habit. I've watched a lot of mob movies/shows lately so my first request would be any books about any type of mob, fiction or nonfiction (I do seem to have a thing for the Irish mob though). My second request would be, since I've been reading mostly crime/murdery, darker type books, I'm looking for a break from that. I loved shotgun love songs by nickolas butler, a visit from the goon squad and sweetbitter. I do like music related fiction, the found family trope, romantic subplots and complicated women. --Kate   Books Discussed After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Winston’s War by Max Hastings The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (out Feb 27) Gather the Daughters by Jennie Malamed (trigger warning: sexual assault, eating disorders) Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang Jade City by Fonda Lee The Chimes by Anna Smaill

Episode three of the Man Booker podcast features the multi-talented David Baddiel - author, screen-writer, comedian and former Man Booker judge - as he talks about his experience of the prize, writing for children and all things books. Joe Haddow also speaks to two of this year's Man Booker longlisted authors: Marlon James, the first Jamaican-born author to make the Man Booker longlist, and Anna Smaill, one of the three debut authors on list. Jen Campbell, bookseller, author and vlogger extraordinaire, joins Joe to talk about the world of Book Tube and the all-new online book club, the Man Booker Vloggers. This is the latest in the Man Booker Prize Podcast series, an exciting look at the very best from the world of books. Join the conversation at @ManBookerPrize and #FinestFiction.

In part two of This Writing Life's podcast with Anna Smaill, we negotiate photographers, noises in RIBA and publicists to discuss her soon-to-be Man Booker longlisted debut novel, The Chimes. ----more---- We began by talking about the taunting idea of the 'genius' and the tragedy of falling short. After mocking This Writing Life's mobile phone, Smaill then moved on to: the glories and downsides of genius 'I should probably say, I never actually thought I was a genius'did The Chimes address Smaill's own musical background?from Young Adult to something else: the writing process of The Chimeshearing the voice of her hero, Simonwhat Simon and Smaill have in commonwhat was the challenge of writing fiction'That sense of mystery animated it throughout'the (quasi-pseudo ) inspiration for 'Onestory', music as a form of social controlVladimir Gavreau, Infrasound and sonic weaponarymusic and control in Tokyochaos, order and the problems of being an individual leaving home and Smaill's return to New ZealandNew Zealand and the Man Booker: Hulme and CattonEleanor Catton and controversythe state of the arts in New Zealandcan a novel set in New Zealand break out internationallyliving with a novelist - Smaill on her husband, the writer Carl Shukerthe future Read Anna Smaill on her Man Booker nomination: here.

Anna Smaill is a New Zealand poet, academic and now Man Booker longlisted novelist. ----more----Her striking debut The Chimes has something of all parts of her career so far. There is music (Smaill trained as a violinist), lyricism (in evoking a world in which words have been replaced by melody), intelligence (in exploring grand narratives about connection, language, fundamentalism, technology, religion) and narrative drive: The Chimes is a love story and a dystopian mystery.We met just before publication at RIBA. After some chatter about jet lag, we moved on to:memories of London, where Smaill began The Chimes, before returning home to New Zealandwriting about London as an imaginative placethe soundtracks of London and TokyoGerman techno and Tokyo dancing vs SuedeSmaill pitches The Chimes to Stephen Spielberg (kind of)the problems and danger of language in The Chimesmemory, communication and extremismdoes The Chimes critique contemporary society?the pros and cons of technologythe joy of reading linear narrative vs fractured memorySmaill's career anxietiesThe Chimes returning Smail to the joys of childhood readingfrom Phd thesis to novel writing Smaill's musical past - playing the violin crisis and giving up musicmusic and identity music, emotion and the physicalI talk to Anna Smaill about her Man Booker longlist in The Independent: here.

Poet and violinist Anna Smaill’s acclaimed debut novel The Chimes constructs a world ruled by a large musical instrument, and navigated via a musical language. It’s also a place where people are incapable of retaining memories. Bernard Beckett’s Lullaby envisages a world where memories, like body organs, can be transplanted. Futuristic, philosophical and written in inventive prose, both novels... Read full post ›