PODCASTS

The Garret_Writers Publishing Industry

The Garret: Writers and the publishing industry is a podcast for lovers of books and storytelling. Always about Australian writers and their craft, in 2023 The Garret expanded focus and also interviews industry figures about what gets published (and why).

The podcast surpassed 515,000 downloads in January 2023.

Anonymous Was A Woman with Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards

Anonymous Was A Woman with Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards is a conversation on books by and about women. The show is a discussion between friends about books by and for women.

This podcast ran between 2020 and 2021, and was made in partnership with Future Women. Seasons were sponsored by Penguin Random House and Hachette.

Anonymous Was A Woman reached #1 in both the Arts and Books categories on Apple Podcasts in Australia, as well as #32 on the Australian charts overall.

  • BOOKS READ IN MAY: 13. The PhD is f#%king with my reading and I now have glasses. 🫠 A few thoughts. I am so glad I have started to engage properly with poetry. @omarsakrpoet and @katelarsenkeys, thank you! I’ve interviewed both of you for @garretpodcast. Everything about ‘On Peter Carey’ by @sarahkwrites made me laugh and cringe and question my reading biases (not sure if I am convinced though). Interview also coming soon! Ghassan Hage, whose work I had not read before, blew my mind. This work is essentially a reader - two of his famous texts are republished here alongside a collection of shorter works and interviews. It’s been put together by @sweatshop.ws and is yet another example of how amazing they are. Interview dropping Monday. I reached peak nerd and read a book about literary prize culture. 🤓 And… The title of the latest Australian Foreign Affairs is plain bad. Do better. 📖 ‘On Peter Carey’ by Sarah Krasnostein ‘Foundation’ by Isaac Asimov ‘Non-Essential Work’ by Omar Sakr ‘The Economy of Prestige’ by James English ‘I’d Rather Not’ by Robert Skinner ‘Axiomatic’ and ‘Otherland’ by Maria Tumarkin ‘Public. Open. Space’ by Kate Larsen ‘The Great Derangement’ by Amitav Ghosh ‘The Book of Roads and Kingdoms’ by Richard Fidler ‘The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism’ by Ghassan Hage ‘The Return of the West’ from Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 249 of Overland Literary Journal
  • 🤓 Aside from reading (obviously), my favourite thing to do is speak with writers. YOU ARE THE BEST, WRITERS. These wonderful people were the first nine writers I spoke to on @garretpodcast this year. The tenth interview dropped today and there are plenty more to come. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s free! It’s independent! And it helps with the silly algorithm every podcaster is beholden to. 📷 From top left to bottom right: Ellen van Neerven, Pip Williams, Zoya Patel, Eloise Grills, Adriane Howell, Louisa Lim, Debra Dank, Edwina Preston and Sarah Holland-Batt.
  • 🐈‍⬛ Bet you can’t pick which of these beauties threw up on me this morning (and then, feeling better, promptly went back to bed). 🐈 Image description: Two Burmese cats are asleep in bed. They are snuggled under a cream quilt.
  • 📚 BOOKS READ IN APRIL: 11. 📓 The standout, of course, is 'Praiseworthy' by Alexis Wright. It will be on ALL the prize lists. It is not a book I could dip in and out of - reading a few pages here and there didn't work for me. I found I had to sink into it, just read and read until I entered the allegorical world where time works in different ways, and the meaning of the work can change between the beginning and the end of each sentence. It truly is spectacular. 📖'Praiseworthy' by Alexis Wright 'White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture' by Alexandra Dane 'Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon' by Adam Roberts 'Reeding Peer Review' by Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Martin Paul Eve and Cameron Neylon 'How To Read Literature' by Terry Eagleton 'Your Silence WIll Not Protect You' by Audre Lorde 'Fen, Big and Swamp' by Annie Proulx 'Root and Branch' by Eda Gunaydin 'Personal Score' by Ellen van Neerven 'Once A Stranger' by Zoya Patel 'The Bookbinder of Jericho' by Pip Williams
  • 💫 A stellar night. 🥂 Alice Pung, Chair of Judges, announces @the_shb_ as the winner of @thestellaprize for ‘The Jaguar’… followed by a photo of all five judges, whose work is now done. 📖 #stellaprize #sarahhollandbatt #thejaguar #auslit

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