About this episode
Cassie and Jonathan Green discuss Colm Tóibín's eagerly awaited new novel Long Island.
Star reviewers Madeleine Gray and Benjamin Law discuss buzzy new fiction from Siang Lu (Ghost Cities), and Rachel Khong (Real Americans).
BOOKS
Long Island, Colm Toibin (Pan Macmillan)
Ghost Cities, Siang Lu (UQP)
Real Americans, Rachel Khong (Penguin)
GUESTS
Benjamin Law, writer, columnist, screenwriter. His work includes The Family Law and Wellmania
Madeleine Gray, arts writer, critic and PhD candidate in English Literature. Her debut novel is Green Dot (A&U)
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Haruki Murakami, works
Sarah Firth, Eventually Everything Connects
Helen Garner, works
Joan Didion, works
Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs
Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater
Jessica Au, Cold Enough For Snow
Madison Godfrey, Dress Rehearsals
CREDITS
- Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Jonathan Green
- Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth + Ann Marie Debettencor
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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