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  • CALLIE HART INTERVIEW

    October 3, 2025 · 6 min

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  • THE MORALITY OF AI: TOBY WALSH (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    There are approximately three million robots working in factories around the world, and another 30 million in people’s homes. Soon robots will outnumber humans. But what happens if an autonomous AI harms or kills a person, deliberately or…

  • WORDS LOST AND FOUND: PIP WILLIAMS (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 56 min

    Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words tells the story of motherless Esme who spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers gather words for the first…

  • THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA: SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    The judges for the winning 2022 Booker Prize praised Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida for the ‘ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques’. Set in Sri Lanka during the 25- year…

  • THE BOOK OF ROADS AND KINGDOMS: RICHARD FIDLER (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    The Book of Roads and Kingdoms brings to life a dazzling culture of science, literature, philosophy and adventure arising out of the flourishing metropolis of Baghdad during Islam’s Golden Age. Australian writer / broadcaster Richard…

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  • SOMETHING THAT MAY SHOCK AND DISCREDIT YOU: DANIEL LAVERY (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    Delightfully inventive and witty, Daniel Lavery (as Mallory Ortberg) was the cofounder of The Toast, the pop-culture platform with literary depth that described its target audience as ‘librarians’. The best-selling author of Texts from…

  • INDELIBLE CITY: LOUISA LIM (2023)

    November 28, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    In the opening paragraphs of Stella Prize shortlisted Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, author Louisa Lim is torn between journalistic neutrality and her love of Hong Kong as she is invited by guerrilla sign painters…

  • CAN AI WRITE A BOOK? SARAH DANIELL, CATHERINE CHIDGEY, TOBY WALSH, TE TAKA KEEGAN (2023)

    November 23, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    With open source AI chatbots capable of generating text that appears increasingly human, will they eventually replace writers altogether? Some claim that AI will never have enough creativity, empathy or originality – but over time could…

  • TWO-SPIRIT: JOSHUA WHITEHEAD, ELLEN VAN NEERVEN, KŌTUKU TITIHUIA NUTTALL

    November 23, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    Two-Spirit is a pan-Indigenous expression (FNMI – First Nations, Metis and Inuit) from Turtle Island (North America) reflecting complex understandings of gender roles, spirituality and a long history of diversity. Two-Spirit writer Joshua…

  • It's Not About Hope: CHELSEA WATEGO, EMMA ESPINER

    November 23, 2023 · 60 min

    In Another Day in the Colony, Mununjali and South Sea Islander health activist Chelsea Watego has a chapter called F**k Hope. She urges her mob to be nihilistic because hope is the dream deferred, better to embrace sovereignty and take…

  • WE CAN’T NOT MENTION IT… : STEPHANIE JOHNSON, FIONA FARRELL (2023)

    November 21, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min

    How do fiction writers deal with Covid? Full-on or sideways? Stephanie Johnson embraces it with gusto in her new satirical novel Kind, a thriller set in lockdown, with devious plots, social blunders and superyachts. Fiona Farrell’s The…

  • LIVE LIFE: DAVE LETELE, WILLY DE WIT (2023)

    November 21, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    In his book No Excuses Dave ‘the Brown Buttabean’ Letele shares how he overcame poverty, depression and crime to become an award-winning community leader inspiring people to turn their lives around. Willy De Wit was a regular on TV shows…

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