Podcast appearances and mentions of Helen Garner

This week, Vanessa Curtis celebrates a century of Mrs Dalloway; and Claire Lowdon on the capacious diaries of Helen Garner.'Mrs Dalloway', by Virginia Woolf'Monkey grip', 'The children's Bach', 'This house of grief', 'How to end a story: collected diaries', by Helen GarnerProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna and Annie discuss the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist for fiction, including WOO WOO by Ella Baxter and HIGHWAY 13 by Fiona McFarlane. Our book of the week is THE SEASON by Helen Garner. This is a memoir of a year Garner spent following her grandson's club football team. It explores masculinity, the sense of community at the local club and being a grandmother. As always with Garner's books, there is much to discuss.  Coming up: SOMEBODY DOWN THERE LIKES ME by Robert Lukins. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Substack: Books On The Go Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Australian writer Helen Garner joins Broden for a wonderful chat about her book "The Season" as well as footy, writing, art and so much more!

Over 50 years, she has become one of the most revered writers in Australia. Is she finally going to get worldwide recognition? By Sophie Elmhirst. Read by Nicolette Chin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

With Nicole AbadeeAustralia's most iconic author, Helen Garner, talks to Nicole Abadee about her latest book, The Season, a reflection on the theatre of footy, masculinity and cheering on her grandson.Event details: Sat 01 Mar, 9:30am | East Stage

For the final episode of the 2025 Winter Season, Mike talks with Helen Green, winner of a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-fiction, about Henry Green's Party Going. They celebrate the joys of the NYRB Classics sale, the mysteries of Australian Rules football, and the joys of this ensemble novel. Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, and her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I'll Remember This, and How to End a Story. Her latest book is The Season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning biographer Dr Bernadette Brennan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, a literary biography that explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most celebrated writers.   Here's what you'll discover in this episode:  Gillian Mears's lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive passion. Her sensuality and sexuality were the driving forces of her life and writing, and her personal and fictional worlds coalesce Why Bernadette Brennan chose the title, Leaping into Waterfalls Why she explored the meaning of the metaphors in Gillian's writing, suggesting what they reveal about Gillian's character How Bernadette took control of the narrative despite Gillian's valiant attempts to curate her image through her annotated archives of 123 boxes of letters, diaries' manuscripts and other traces of her life How Bernadette retraced Gillian's footsteps to create an authentic sense of place How Bernadette balanced Gillian's life story with literary criticism of her oeuvre How Bernadette kept the focus on Gillian while also portraying the historical, social and cultural context of her times, which included prominent authors such as Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Kate Grenville Ethical decisions about what evidence to include, emphasise and suppress given that Gillian's sensuality and sexuality were at the core of her identity and informed her writing.

Claire Mabey reviews a forthcoming book of short stories from Michelle Duff called Surplus Women and Makeshift Seasons, new poetry from Kate Camp. She also reviews Australian writer Helen Garner's Yellow Diaries.

In this special podcast extra, at an event hosted by The Wheeler Centre, Sales interviews her idol Helen Garner about her new book The Season, in front of a live audience in Melbourne. Special thanks to The Wheeler Centre for permission to replay the audio. (0.00) The Season by Helen Garner | Apple Books(7.50) Year Of The Dogs | Apple and DocPlay Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode we speak with acclaimed author Helen Garner, who followed the travails of her grandson's footy team for her new book, The Season. She speaks with Konrad Marshall about what she now envies about male contact sports, the benefit of coming to footy with limited prior knowledge, and the debate over the book's cover image.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Garner talks to Cheryl about the art of writing nonfiction, her journey as an author over the years and how age has shaped her perspective on life. Her latest book, The Season, is out now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For our last episode of 2024, Michael heads back to Fitzroy Pool to find out what people are reading as the weather warms up. Plus, some of our previous guests offer book recommendations for the summer holidays.Reading list:Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir, 1958The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas, 2008Ritual, Chloe Elizabeth Wilson, 2025The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2001I Could Not Believe It, Sean DeLear, 1979Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice, Ben Schwartz, 2024Deadly Embrace, Jackie Collins, 2001Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel García Márquez, 1993The Season, Helen Garner, 2024The Safe Keep, Yael van der Wouden, 2024All Fours, Miranda July, 2024Time's Monster, Priya Satia, 2020The Lovers, Yumna Kassab, 2022Deep Water, James Bradley, 2024The Tribe, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, 2014Edith Trilogy, Frank Moorhouse, 1992-2011The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse, John Clarke, 1994You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store.Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For our last show of 2024, Michael heads back to Fitzroy Pool to find out what people are reading as the weather warms up. Plus, some of our previous guests offer book recommendations for the summer holidays. Reading list: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir, 1958 The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas, 2008 Ritual, Chloe Elizabeth Wilson, 2025 The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2001 I Could Not Believe It, Sean DeLear, 1979 Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice, Ben Schwartz, 2024 Deadly Embrace, Jackie Collins, 2001 Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel García Márquez, 1993 The Season, Helen Garner, 2024 The Safe Keep, Yael van der Wouden, 2024 All Fours, Miranda July, 2024 Time's Monster, Priya Satia, 2020 The Lovers, Yumna Kassab, 2022 Deep Water, James Bradley, 2024 The Tribe, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, 2014 Edith Trilogy, Frank Moorhouse, 1992-2011 The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse, John Clarke, 1994 You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter

READ FULL SHOWNOTES ON Chat10Looks3.com Once again, by accident this poorly-coordinated pair has stumbled into a theme. Women telling powerful and wide-ranging stories, including the counter-cultural paean to young men that is Helen Garner's latest. Starting a story and not knowing how it's going to end? Nothing more dangerous, nothing more exhilarating, especially in the hands of a skilled craftswoman. Tis the Season! Yule not be disappointed by this lineup; Naomi Klein, Pamela RAAAABE, Steph Tisdell and Virginia Trioli. Okay we'll see ourselves out. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson's under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human society'.

READ FULL SHOWNOTES ON Chat10Looks3.com Crabb & Sales celebrate 10 years of Chat 10 Looks 3 in Melbourne with two incredible guests: writer Helen Garner and comedian Kitty Flanagan. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author and rewilding facilitator Gina Chick talks about her new memoir We Are The Stars; palaeontologist John Long describes the history the misunderstood shark; the team brainstorm how to make Christmas cards more exciting; Dr Jen breaks the benefits of standing desks, and author Helen Garner chats about her new book, The Season.With presenters Monique Sebire, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakfasters

Historian and author Professor Clare Wright's award-winning work is about righting the wrongs of Australian history. Across three books she takes a historical artefact and uses it to understand the voices that are too often missing from the historical record: the Eureka flag, the suffragette banner, and now the Bark Petitions. This week, Michael sits down with Clare for a conversation about her new book Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions. Reading list: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright, 2014 You Daughters of Freedom, Clare Wright, 2018 Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions, Clare Wright, 2024 The Season, Helen Garner, 2024 You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store.  Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Clare Wright

Historian and author Professor Clare Wright's award-winning work is about righting the wrongs of Australian history. Across three books she takes a historical artefact and uses it to understand the voices that are too often missing from the historical record: the Eureka flag, the suffragette banner, and now the Bark Petitions. This week, Michael sits down with Clare for a conversation about her new book Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions.Reading list:The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright, 2014You Daughters of Freedom, Clare Wright, 2018Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions, Clare Wright, 2024The Season, Helen Garner, 2024You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Clare WrightSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jane Westaway reviews The Season by Helen Garner published by Text Publishing

Gaza Despatches - Dr Jamal Merei  here II after his recent visit to Gaza Dr Merei calls on Australia to do more to address the humanitarian catastrophe..A Palestinian Voice to Parliament - Dr Ziad Basyouny here II Dr Basyouny announced to the Town Hall Palestine Rally that he is now a candidate in the next Federal Election. This is in the seat of Watson held by ALP Tony Burke for 20 years.recordings: Vivien Langford Climate Action Show - Sydney Palestine Rally 18-8-2024Western Suburbs Letter to EPA - Please Explain here II The Anti-Toxic Waste Alliance, a coalition of about 40 community groups and organisations from across Melbourne's northern and western suburbs, has written to the EPA with the support of lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia. Senior lawyer at Environment Justice Australia Virginia Trescowthick joins us.The Children's Bach here II Singer Kate Amos, gives us some idea about the Lyric Opera production of The Children's Bach taken from the Helen Garner novella, being staged at Theatre Works from 31 Aug - 7 Sept tickets.This is the Week here II Kevin Healy slashes and burns the week with satire.Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the Australian State here II The editors of the new publication from the Sydney University Press Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the Australian State, Phillip Toner and Mike Rafferty join us.

di Matteo B. Bianchi | In questo episodio andiamo a conoscere Clara Acerbi, giovanissima libraia della libreria À la Page di Aosta e presidentessa dell'Associazione Giovani Librai Italiani. Luca Briasco ci racconta come da editor di narrativa straniera è diventato anche traduttore di molti scrittori anglofoni, tra cui Stephen King. Infine, la scrittrice, giornalista e conduttrice Daria Bignardi ci regala un suo consiglio di lettura. Libri consigliati in questo episodio:  SALUTERÒ DI NUOVO IL SOLE di Kashayar J. Kabushani, NN editore STORIA DEI MIEI SOLDI di Melissa Panarello, Bompiani COME PIOMBO NELLE VENE di Helen Garner, nottetempo IL PALAZZO INCOMPIUTO di Judith Mackrell, EDT LA VASCA DEL FUHRER di Serena Dandini, Einaudi BALENE BIANCHE di Richard Price, Neri Pozza TRISTE TIGRE di Neige Sinno, Neri Pozza (in uscita il 30 aprile) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Gabriella chats with Bernadette Brennan about her choices while crafting A Writing Life. Helen Garner and her Work, a literary portrait of one of Australia's most vital and revered authors.  Here's what you'll discover in this episode: Why Bernadette Brennan felt compelled to write A Writing Life.  Why Bernadette chose to craft A Writing Life as a literary portrait of Helen Garner rather than as a conventional biography. Why Bernadette opened A Writing Life with a scene in which an agitated Garner is a panelist at a writers' conference. How Bernadette disentangled Garner's human story from her writing given that Garner's life and writing inform and shape each other.  Why Bernadette views A Writing Life as genre-bending. Why Bernadette structured the portrait around literary analysis of each of Garner's books, and why she thinks of the chapters in A Writing Life as rooms in ‘Garner's house of writing'.  Why Bernadette ended A Writing Life with an email from Garner about her Bible reading group and her remark: ‘Our immersion in a (mighty) text brings everyone to his (or her) best self'.  https://biographersinconversation.com Facebook: Share Your Life Story Linkedin: Gabriella Kelly Davies Instagram: Biographersinconversation  

Andrew O'Hagan and Helen Garner

Irma and Karen talk about prepping for radio interviews. Then Karen chats to Diana Reid about how writing scripts has informed the way she works as a novelist and her approach to being edited, what it was like to be thrown into the spotlight with her bestselling debut novel, how its extraordinary success affected her, advice on how to handle publicity interviews, why writing her second novel was so much harder, how she feels about being called Australia's Sally Rooney, why COVID was such a positive time for her as a writer, and how the first time she met Helen Garner she was so overwhelmed she began sobbing uncontrollably.About Diana:Diana Reid burst onto the literary scene just after COVID with her debut novel, Love & Virtue, which won many awards and earned her the title of Best Young Novelist in 2022. Diana followed up soon after with her second novel Seeing Other People. She is currently living in London and finishing her next novel. 

My guest today is the writer Helen Garner. I'm pretty sure that right now you are either going, wow I LOVE her, or looking a bit vague. Because despite being one of Australia's greatest living writers she is surprisingly little known here.But not for much longer because, at the age of 81, she is finally about to see almost all her books in print in the UK and US for the first time.Born in 1941 in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six, Helen has lived a fascinating life and one that has found its way into her 13 books. Her debut Monkey Grip, published in 1977 when she was a single mother, is still in print today; her second novel, The Children's Bach (which is where I recommend you start if you've never read her), has been compared with Hemingway and Fitzgerald; and, her true crime classic, This House of Grief, has been declared one of the best books of the 21st century.Not bad for a regular kid from, as she puts it, “an ordinary Australian home - not many books and not much talk.”I was lucky enough to get to chat to Helen (and her chooks) from her home near Melbourne. In fact she kept me up long past my bedtime (!) as we discussed the difficult father-daughter relationship, making peace with the older generations and the emotional impact of being a war baby. She also told me why getting married a fourth time would have been the definition of madness, how she couldn't give a shit about the withdrawal of the erotic gaze and why grandmothering has been the greatest pleasure of her life. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach and This House of Grief by Helen Garner and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me.* If you enjoyed this episode and you fancy buying me a coffee, pop over to my page on buymeacoffee.com• And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's show, the panel returns to Arrakis! First up, the trio reviews Dune: Part Two, the (as the title suggests) second part of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction epic. In it, Timothée Chalamet plays Paul Atreides, the supposed “messiah” of Arrakis, a hostile desert planet rich in spice, in a fantastic feat of world building and worm-riding. Then, they examine God Save Texas, a three-part docu-series streaming on Max that follows three Texan filmmakers (Richard Linklakter, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa) as they return to their respective hometowns and chronicle the state's complex history with the prison system, oil business, and border laws. Finally, the panel is joined by Paul Schnee, an acclaimed casting director whose credits include Spotlight, Winter's Bone, and The Help, to discuss the Academy Awards' most recent addition: an Oscar for Casting.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel answers a listener question from Eliot: What are some pieces of culture that your children have introduced to you?  Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Outro music: “Last Sunday” by OTE Endorsements: Dana: Werner Herzog's 2011 documentary, Into the Abyss. The film examines America's capital punishment system.  Julia: The Lady and the Tramp, which is still great and bizarre, and somehow, makes the dogs… hot?  Steve: Australian novelist Helen Garner's 2014 non-fiction book The House of Grief, which follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure.  Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  Hosts Dana Stephens, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show, the panel returns to Arrakis! First up, the trio reviews Dune: Part Two, the (as the title suggests) second part of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction epic. In it, Timothée Chalamet plays Paul Atreides, the supposed “messiah” of Arrakis, a hostile desert planet rich in spice, in a fantastic feat of world building and worm-riding. Then, they examine God Save Texas, a three-part docu-series streaming on Max that follows three Texan filmmakers (Richard Linklakter, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa) as they return to their respective hometowns and chronicle the state's complex history with the prison system, oil business, and border laws. Finally, the panel is joined by Paul Schnee, an acclaimed casting director whose credits include Spotlight, Winter's Bone, and The Help, to discuss the Academy Awards' most recent addition: an Oscar for Casting.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel answers a listener question from Eliot: What are some pieces of culture that your children have introduced to you?  Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Outro music: “Last Sunday” by OTE Endorsements: Dana: Werner Herzog's 2011 documentary, Into the Abyss. The film examines America's capital punishment system.  Julia: The Lady and the Tramp, which is still great and bizarre, and somehow, makes the dogs… hot?  Steve: Australian novelist Helen Garner's 2014 non-fiction book The House of Grief, which follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure.  Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  Hosts Dana Stephens, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'I kept this condition very, very secret from everybody.' Adele Dumont's remarkable new memoir, The Pulling, details her life with trichotillomania — a mental health condition that, at times, has consumed her life. In this episode, she discusses the unique writing process that enabled her to put long-held secrets first on the page and then into the public sphere. She also describes the impact of revealing her illness through her memoir, especially to family and friends who knew nothing about her condition. We discuss the shame linked to trichotillomania and whether sharing her story has shifted this feeling. Adele Dumont is an Australian writer and critic. Her work has appeared in Griffith Review, Meanjin, Southerly, ABR, and Sydney Review of Books. Adele's first book, No Man Is an Island, is an account of her experiences teaching English to asylum seekers in detention. Adele lives in Sydney, where she works as an English language teacher and examiner.  'Get your copy of The Pulling from Booktopia or your local bookshop.' Books and authors discussed in this episode: Lee Kofman (from episode 76); Helen Garner; Adele's Guardian article; Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid; The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård; Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran (from episode 48) Upcoming events  Ashley is teaching Online Feedback: Manuscript Development for Writing NSW starting 4 March 2024 As part of Seniors Week, Ashley is teaching memoir writing at Glen Street & Warringah Mall Library, on 15 and 19 March Ashley is teaching Writing Crime Fiction, a six-week online course with Faber starting 15 May 2024  Learn more about Ashley's psychological thriller Dark Mode and get your copy here or from your local bookshop.  Learn more about James' award-winning novel Denizen and get your copy here or from your local bookshop. Get in touch! ashleykalagianblunt.com jamesmckenziewatson.com Instagram: @akalagianblunt + @jamesmcwatson

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

In episode #119, John Evans, owner of Diesel Bookstore talks about selling his independent bookstore, what he'll miss most and how books help us deal with difficult subjects such as war.   Click below to purchase the books at my affiliate Bookshop.org shop, which gives money back to Diesel Bookstore and supports this show. Books recommended:Trilogy by H.D.Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire DedererHomage to Catalonia by George OrwellThe Children's Bach by Helen GarnerCeremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Other books mentioned:The Interestings by Meg WolitzerThe Position by Meg WolitzerVisit Diesel bookstore onlineDiesel Bookstore on InstagramLiterary StampsSupport the showI hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Our cultural narrative says there is no supernatural or transcendent realm. The CPX team wants to break that spell.  --- Seen & Heard is back – and this time, the team have disenchantment in their sights, or the belief that there is no more supernatural or transcendent realm to life, that science is the only verifiable path to truth, and that all things religious are debunked, once and for all.  But is this true? The books and films we've been reading and watching might disagree.   Natasha highlights beloved Australian author Helen Garner's encounter with an angel and our flirtation with the supernatural through occasions like Halloween, before taking us through the supernatural stylings of the latest Poirot film A Haunting in Venice, based (extremely loosely) on Agatha Christie's 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party.   Simon has been reading the biography of tennis icon and former World No. 1 Andre Agassi who, it turns out, hated tennis and wrestled with fame, but discovered that helping people is the “only perfection there is”.   A world that has cast off religion and the transcendent also leaves behind any account of the good life that goes along with those claims. Yet Agassi discovered that being the best tennis player in the world didn't fulfil him. Only serving others did, which resonates with the Christian claim that the good life is a life lived for others.   And Justine raves about Susannah Clarke's novel Piranesi and its vivid portrayal of what the disenchanted view of the world lacks: wonder, deep communion with the world, joy, and hope. Plus, Justine makes a bold claim:  Susannah Clarke is the 21st-century successor to C.S. Lewis.  --  Explore  Helen Garner describing her angelic encounter at the 2018 Sydney Writers' Festival (from 30 mins)  Sean Kelly's column mentioning Hilary Mantel's possibly demonic encounter  Trailer for A Haunting in Venice  Natasha's article on Halloween, published in the Sydney Morning Herald  Andre Agassi's Open: An Autobiography  The Guardian's interview with Susannah Clarke  Piranesi by Susannah Clarke  Wikipedia entry on the real-life Piranesi, the 18th-century architect and artist 

With recent reprints of The Children's Bach and This House of Grief, Helen Garner's voice returns in two of her best works — a novel featuring the intricacies of complicated family life and a nonfiction account of one of Australia's most shocking criminal cases. Garner joins us to talk about how she came to write each of these stories, keeping diaries, the complexities of human character and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.    This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.             New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.        Featured Books (Episode): The Children's Bach by Helen Garner  This House of Grief by Helen Garner   Monkey Grip by Helen Garner  

What does your social circle say about you? On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels featuring central figures surrounded by rather influential casts of characters:  Ana Turns, by Lisa Gornick, and The Children's Bach, by Helen Garner.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Joys of Binge Reading. Internationally published Kiwi author, Fiona Sussman. And The Doctor's Wife, a psychological thriller of a close friendship shattered by illness and unexpected death. Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovered his wife in the living room naked except for a black apron, bleaching out of stain in the carpet that only she can see.  Hi there. I'm your host Jenny Wheeler and on Binge Reading today Fiona talks about writing a story where a group of close friends discover the unexpected about themselves and one another after one of them is diagnosed with severe brain cancer. For Fiona, who was a doctor before becoming a full-time author, it's her first foray into bringing her experience as a medical practitioner to her fiction. This week's Giveaway - win a paperback And as our Giveaway this week, we've got a paperback copy of The Doctor's Wife, which is a finalist in New Zealand's Ngaio Marsh Mystery Awards to be decided later this month. Enter the draw to win a copy of The Doctor's Wife here https://the-joys-of-binge-reading.ck.page/de8c1c9777 ENTER DRAW TO WIN A COPY OF THE DOCTOR'S WIFE Links to books mentioned in the episode Ngaio Marsh Mystery Awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh_Awards Ngaio Marsh; https://www.ngaiomarsh.org/ngaio-marsh Agatha Christie: https://www.agathachristie.com/ Dorothy Sayers: https://www.sayers.org.uk/ Marjorie Allingham: https://www.margeryallinghamcrime.com/biography/ Nadine Gordimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer Athol Fugard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol_Fugard Alan Paton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Paton Geraldine Brooks: https://geraldinebrooks.com/ Kate Greenville: https://kategrenville.com.au/ Elizabeth Strout: https://www.elizabethstrout.com/ Helen Garner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Garner Graeme Macrae Burnet, This Bloody Project, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Macrae_Burnet Malla Nunn, A Beautiful Place to Die, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malla_Nunn Fiona Kidman, This Mortal Boy, https://fionakidman.com/ And remember if you enjoy the show, leave us a review so others will find us too. Word of mouth is still the best way for friends to discover the show and great books they will love to read. Introducing Kiwi author Fiona Sussman You'll find Fiona at: Website: www.fionasussman.co.nz (Fiona has suspended her social media for the time being to focus on her writing) Fiona Sussman - The Doctor's Wife - shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Mystery Awards Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Fiona. Hello there, Fiona, and welcome to the show. It's so good to have you with us. Fiona Sussman: Hi, Jenny. It's a real treat to be on the Joys of Binge Reading. Thank you so much for inviting me. Jenny Wheeler: Now, it is an international show, but you're just across a few streets from me. it's wonderful to be able to talk to a local resident today for a change. We're talking about The Doctor's Wife, which is your fourth novel. Often crime novels – and this is categorized as a crime novel, although it's really, as you've said, a domestic thriller - it doesn't start with a death or a murder or a crime exactly. It starts with simmering tension between normal middle class couple and then quickly followed by a husband coming home and finding his wife doing something very unusual. She is naked except for a black apron. She's madly scrubbing at the carpet at an invisible stain that nobody but her can see. And this is a very dramatic way to introduce the fact that this woman is suffering from a serious illness. Tell us about the opening. A tense dinner quickly escalates Fiona Sussman: Yes, Jenny. I guess I was very mindful of the fact that this was a domestic thriller I was writing, so I wanted to escalate the tension fairly early on.

Baron joined The Washington Post in 2013 – just months before the paper was acquired by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. He led coverage of major news events including Donald Trump's election and presidency, the document leak describing the NSA's surveillance operations, and the murder of George Floyd. His new book is Collision of Power. Also, John Powers reviews two books by Helen Garner.

OUR LIVE SHOW IS *NEXT WEEK*Use the code SEEALSO for 15% off your ticket to See Also Live at the Wheeler Centre with special guest Maria Angelico.This week, Kate and Brodie do an impromptu Tight Ten on Fitzroy Pool: whether it has more literary (Helen Garner), musical (Courtney Barnett) or fragrance (Troye Sivan) associations. BL loves being someone's "all shapes and sizes" and Jinxy does a live-react to Tsu Lange Yor's "Pool" fragrance. Jinxy saw La Chimera again and you just gotta, BL is exploring the country for old men movies, they chat about The Row pre-fall 2024, Jenna Lyons staying at Chateau Voltaire, and the influence of Cass Bird's iconic flashing photo on RHONY.They dig into Marisa Meltzer's NYT story on 15 years of Goop and cover the impact of the celeb recommendation site (from Poosh and Meghan Markle's "Tig", Lorde's newsletter, Dua Lipa's podcast), aggressive cedar scents, Gwyneth's one-cigarette-a-week policy and, apparently Goop Kitchen great?, Girltalk DJ'ed Gwyneth's wedding, Hot Crone Summer incoming.THEN (it's a big one this week!) they dig into Celine Song's debut feature Past Lives, the early Skype / Facebook interfaces, the slippiness of time & memory, critiques of its sentimentality, and the heaving sobs as the lights come up.See AlsoTaffy Brodesser-Akner's Gwyneth profileGP's recent sponconLauren Oyler on the Goop CruiseBethenny Frankel's bad standupThe Dream podcast'Celine Dion sings love songs while our cities burn''Space & Time: A Note From Celine Song'Daniel Rossen's You Belong ThereJohn Magaro AlsosFirst CowShowing UpCarolHoliday Cocktail LoungeEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindAlso AlsosBURN ALSO: Nonna's Grocer candlesWATCH ALSO: Italian Film Festival SWIM ALSO: Dock & Bay Stripe Cabana Microfibre TowelSWIM ALSO: Speedo Endurance Leaderback Sport LegsuitBIKINI LINE ALSO: Wax with Jen @ Miss Jay'sTREAT ALSO: Sundae School Ice CreameryFind us on Instagram @seealsopodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A deep dive into the career of the legendary Australian author.

A deep dive into the career of the legendary Australian author.

We are fascinated by stories of crime and how they unfold. There are no finer narrators of such stories than legendary author Helen Garner and The Teacher's Pet podcaster Hedley Thomas, whose work explores the link between confronting terrible things that happen and the people who are involved. They sit down with Sarah Krasnostein to explore the compelling nature of crime and the pressing question of what happens when justice takes a lifetime – or if it never comes at all? This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers' Festival.   If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  Sydney Writers' Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  After more? Follow Sydney Writers' Festival on social media:Instagram: @sydwritersfestFacebook: @SydWritersFestTwitter: @SydWritersFestTikTok: @sydwritersfestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trying to share critical acclaim, or a working space can be a challenge when you're a literary couple. 

Trying to share critical acclaim, or a working space can be a challenge when you're a literary couple. 

This week we're bringing you something special. The first episode of our new podcast: Read This. In the first episode of the show, host Michael Williams sits down with author Helen Garner. She invites us over for cake and conversation about what she's writing about, how she problem solves and the inspiration she gets from watching her grandson's footy training. Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Helen Garner

Helen Garner is writing again. This week, she invites us over for cake and conversation about what she's writing about, how she solves problems and the inspiration she gets from watching her grandson's footy training.Reading list:Monkey Grip, Helen Garner, 1977The Children's Bach, Helen Garner, 1984The Spare Room, Helen Garner, 2008Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978–1987, Helen Garner, 2019One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995, Helen Garner, 2020How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998, Helen Garner, 2021Eleven Letters to You: A Memoir, Helen Elliot, 2023The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor, 2023Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Helen GarnerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Garner is writing again. This week, she invites us over for cake and conversation about what she's writing about, how she solves problems and the inspiration she gets from watching her grandson's footy training. Reading list: Monkey Grip, Helen Garner, 1977 The Children's Bach, Helen Garner, 1984 The Spare Room, Helen Garner, 2008 Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978–1987, Helen Garner, 2019 One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995, Helen Garner, 2020 How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998, Helen Garner, 2021 Eleven Letters to You: A Memoir, Helen Elliot, 2023 The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor, 2023 Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Helen Garner

Sales and Crabb coming to you from the Chat 10 Looks 3 live show at the QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane on 19 May 2023. (20.06) The Smith Family | Donate (21.00) The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt | Booktopia (25.60) Tandia by Bryce Courtenay | Booktopia (26.30) Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews | Booktopia (30.48) Yellow Notebook by Helen Garner | Booktopia (35.50) Still: A Michael J Fox Movie | Trailer | Apple TV+ (37.00) Back to the Future | Trailer | Binge (41.00) Spin City | Trailer | Apple TV+ (41.53) No Time Like the Future by Michael J Fox | Booktopia (43.35) Alone Australia | Trailer | SBS On Demand (55.00) Life & Death Decisions by Dr Lachlan McIver | Booktopia (57.25) Ted Lasso | Trailer | Apple TV (1.00.01) The Diplomat | Trailer | Netflix (1.34.00) The Americans | Trailer | Disney Plus (1.02.05) Queen Charlotte | Trailer | Netflix  (1.02.30) Because We Have Each Other Documentary | Trailer | Screenings  (1.09.50) Helen Garner on Happiness | The Guardian Produced by DM PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.