About this episode
Alaska, folktales and mothers and daughters in Eowyn Ivey's Black Woods Blue Sky. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Anne Tyler is back with Three Days in June, another novel about mothers and daughters; and Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, a critique of social media and contemporary life.
BOOKS
Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky, Tinder Press
Anne Tyler, Three Days in June, Chatto & Windus
Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection (translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes), Text
GUESTS
Alice Pung, novelist, memoirist and editor. Her books include Unpolished Gem, Laurinda and One Hundred Days
Dylin Hardcastle, novelist, artist and screenwriter, currently completing their PhD. Their novels include Below Deck and A Language of Limbs
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDEowyn Ivey, The Snow ChildJohn Marsden, worksAnne Tyler, worksJazz Money, Mark the DawnDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityKirsty Jagger, RoseghettoWeike Wang, Joan is Okay
CREDITS
- Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
- Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, John Jacobs, Tegan Nicholls
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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