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Read This

Read This is a show about the books we love and the stories behind them, hosted by Michael Williams. Every Thursday, you’ll hear insightful conversations with the smartest, funniest readers and writers we know and in-depth interviews with the best Australian and international authors talking about their lives and their work. You’ll never be left wondering what to read next.

Episodes

It’s Trent Frickin’ Dalton

Robyn Davidson and the Impossible Book

David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie

Melissa Lucashenko is our Poet Laureate of Ratbags

The Three Words That Made George Saunders a Writer

Daniel Browning Has Something to Say

Eleanor Catton Has Her Doubts about Certainty

This episode explores the dangers of ideological certainty in public discourse, particularly within the context of social media, using Eleanor Catton's new book, Birnam Wood, as a lens. Against the backdrop of the author's concerns about the corrosive effects of Twitter's character limits on nuanced debate, the conver...

Kate Grenville Makes History

Sarah Krasnostein Was Wrong About Peter Carey

Daniel Lavery Has Some Advice for You

Leigh Sales Is a Professional Stickybeak

The Restlessness of Christos Tsiolkas

Colson Whitehead Loves a Doomed Heist

The Miles Franklin Winner Who Nearly Gave up Writing

Tony Birch Doesn’t Believe in Luck

Anna Funder is Her Own Wife

We Went to Helen Garner’s House

Introducing Read This

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