Julia Paradise feat. Tobe Ellen

Send us a textMelbourne novelist Tobe Ellen joins me for a few pints at the pub, where we discuss Australian writer Rod Jones' Julia Paradise. It's a highly evocative novel of psychosexual manipulation set in a dreamy 1920s expat Shanghai. Eroticism, Freudian psychoanalysis, how Australian writers write about other countries and how the smart ones defamiliarize their own, and more.Buy Rod Jones' novel here: https://tinyurl.com/4y5kue5mSupport the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newmythologies.substack.com/subscribe