Literati Glitterati
by RRR - Triple R
Championing stylish wordsmiths and sterling conversation, Literati Glitterati is a weekly book show that loves a good story, well told. The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion
Episodes
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That's A Wrap!
Although the podcast format of Literati Glitterati has now wrapped, this show continues to be broadcast on Triple R. You can now listen to new episodes on Triple R’s FM On Demand service at rrr.org.au/explore/programs/literati-glitterati. Thanks for listening!
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Good Cooking Everyday by Julia Ostro and Theory and Practice by Michelle De Krester
Julie Ostro discusses her new cookbook Good Cooking Everyday, and novelist Michelle De Kretser delves into her new book Theory and Practice.
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Literati Gliterati November Salon: 'Family Lexicon' by Natalia Ginzburg
The monthly Literati Glitterati Salon returns for its final instalment for 2024 to discuss autobiographical novel Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg about life, language, and family in Italy from the 1920s to the 50s. Mel Fulton speaks to writer and editor Hilary McPhee, collection manager and...
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Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski & Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability by Andy Jackson
Alina Grabowski dials in to talk all about her latest book, Women and Children First, set in a fictional town in Massachusetts. It’s a burnt-out coastal town where the residents are confronted by the death of a young woman at a house party, and the novel is told through the voices of women in the...
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Rapture by Emily Maguire and Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blain
Mel's first guest is Emily Maguire, discussing her recently-released book Rapture. In the second half of the show, Mel explores Australian Gospel: A Family Saga with author Lech Blain.
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Divining the history of Tarot with Jessica Friedmann
Special guest host Jess Zanoni fills in for Mel this week. Jess is joined by Jessica Friedmann author of Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana to peek behind the curtain of the history and culture surrounding Tarot. Plus Joe Rubbo, Managing Director of Readings, stops by the studio…
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All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot by Lucinda Price (aka Froomes)
Mel Fulton speaks with internet darling Lucinda “Froomes” Price about her debut novel All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot. Froomes is known for outrageous comedic bits, celebrity obsessions and as a beacon for early naughties nostalgia. All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot is a memoir/manifesto that dives...
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'The Temperature' by Katerina Gibson, and 'Cactus Pear For My Beloved' by Samah Sabawi
Mel chats with Katerina Gibson on her new book 'The Temperature', a collection of short stories about climate change in contemporary Australia. Then, Samah Sabawi discusses her novel 'Cactus Pear For My Beloved', a family story from Gaza.
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Digital Surrealisms at Emerging Writers Festival
In collaboration with the Emerging Writers' Festival, Mel chats with three authors, William Huang, Katy Chan, and Elizabeth Bourke, and premieres three unique audio pieces exploring ideas from AI, memory and creativity and being terminally online for the Digital Surrealisms event.
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Literati Glitterati August Salon: 'Enter Ghost' by Isabella Hammad
The monthly Literati Glitterati Salon returns to discuss 'Enter Ghost' by Isabella Hammad, a novel about a Palestinian production of Hamlet. Mel Fulton speaks to novalist Nevo Zisin, illustrator Sofia Sabbagh, and editor Tess Cullity on how the book portrays the power of Palestinian theatre, and...
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Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
Mel speaks to the author of 'Woo Woo', a feminist thriller about making art, online performance, and voyeurism.
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The Echoes by Evie Wyld
Mel chats with Evie Wyld on her new book The Echoes, a love story from the perspective of a ghost.
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Literati Glitterati July Salon: A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
The monthly Lit Glit salon returns with A Manual For Cleaning Women, a pulverising selection of short stories from the previously unsung queen of story, Lucia Berlin. Berlin wrote in binges, brilliantly, throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s until her death in 2004. Ten years later, with the release of...
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The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
On this weeks episode of Literati Glitterati, Irish author Caoilinn Hughes is on to talk about her new book, The Alternatives. Caoilinn says there’s a little bit of her in all her characters, but in this conversation she talks about the way she employed her friends expertise to form complex and...
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Ella Mitas with Ela! Ela! and Leah Jing McIntosh with Liminal Magazine
Mel speaks with Ella Mitas on her new cookbook Ela! Ela! and Leah Jing McIntosh, curator/writer and founder of Liminal Magazine, for an overview of inagural Liminal festival at The Wheeler Centre.
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Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson
Brrr! It’s cold out there… come cuddle up and get cosy with Mel Fulton and debut author, Sophie Matthiesson. Sophie’s novel, Together We Fall Apart, is a stunning debut telling the story of Clare, who has a complex family life - with both her born into family and her created one - and must toe…
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Literati Glitterati Salon #2: Peggy Frew & Ella Baxter on Miranda July's 'All Fours'
The Literati Glitterati Salon returns for edition #2. Mel Fulton is joined by novelists and legends Peggy Frew and Ella Baxter to discuss Miranda July’s sparkling new novel, All Fours. Together they break down the novel and chat through their thoughts and feelings, and answer and respond to...
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Sam Elkin on new book 'Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga'
This week, Mel Fulton is joined by RRR broadcaster and Author, Sam Elkin as they discuss his new book "Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga" and his journey from Lesbian to Transgender Lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 Marrige equality postal survey. The two delve deep into the honest nature of...
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Lauren Aimee Curtis' new novel, 'Strangers At The Port'
This week Mel Fulton is virtually joined by Sydney-born author, Lauren Aimee Curtis. Her new novel, Strangers At The Port is longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024, and is a tale of two sisters and an archdukes navigating their time on an Italian island best known for it's…
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Eye of the Beholder: Dominic Gordon and Emily Westmoreland talk about Melbourne, its Surrounds and its Literature
Dominic Gordon, author of Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk, joins Mel to talk about his collection of non-fiction stories, memories, and feelings from his young life and coming of age in Melbourne's inner city suburbs. He speaks on his use of writing as catharsis and release, of working through...
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Inaugural Book of the Month: The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
Literati Glitterati launches its monthly book club with a special live edition in the Triple R Performance Space. We unpack the inaugural book of the month: Dorothy Porter’s iconic lesbian crime thriller, The Monkey’s Mask. Celebrating thirty years since its 1994 release, this modern Australian...
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Cher Tan's debut essay collection, 'Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging'
This week, Mel is joined in the studio by Cher Tan. Cher Tan is an essayist, critic and editor living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. She has lived in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised. Cher's debut collection of essays, Peripathetic: Notes on…
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The semi-autobigraphical novel of Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
In this episode, Mel speaks to Kaveh Akbar, an Iranian-American poet and scholar, on his new book, Martyr! The book is a semi-autobigraphical tale, in which the main character Cyrus Shams shares some parallels to Kaveh's own life. It is the story of a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian...
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Leslie Jamieson, Splinters, and the Melbourne Writers' Festival
Join Mel this week by best-selling American Author, and master of nonfiction, Leslie Jamieson, to deep dive into her life, what inspires her book writing and characters in relation to her own lived experiences. Listen along to snippets of conversation from her recent book Splinters, a memoire...
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Miranda Darling on her latest novel, 'Thunderhead'
This week, Mel Fulton is joined in the studio by multi-faceted novelist, Miranda Darling. Miranda is in to discuss her fifth novel, Thunderhead. In the book, the main (and almost only) character, Winona Dalloway (a nod to Woolf's Mrs Dalloway) goes about a normal day in her life, although the...
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Ethics, politics and community; Bri Lee on her debut novel 'The Work'
Author & journalist Bri Lee joins today's show to talk about her debut novel 'The Work' which was released April 3rd. Listen to the nuanced discussion about the process of writing this book, the conversation she wants to have between author and audience, the ways that this fiction work differs…
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Bonny Cassidy
Mel Fulton speaks to author Bonny Cassidy about her memoir, Monuments, which explores the consequences of colonial settlement across generations within the lens of a white Australian family of mixed origins and ancestries.
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James Colley & Corrie Perkin
James Colley, television comedy writer and producer from Western Sydney best known for his work as Head Writer on Gruen joins Mel to talk about his new part young-love rom-com, part David and Goliath story, The Next Big Thing. Corrie Perkin, Director of Sorrento Writers Festival also joins the…
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Beatrix Bakes and Clunes Booktown Festival
Join Mel Fulton this week with Natalie Paul, CEO of Beatrix Bakes and author of new book titled Beatrix Bakes Another Slice. The two chat about all things sweet and delicious! Also joining Mel on the line is Sue Beal, CEO of Creative Clunes for the upcoming Clunes Booktown Festival, 23-24 March...
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Abbey Lay
The idea for Abbey Lay's debut novel came to her on a bus ride in Mexico... next thing she knew she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manucript in 2022. Mel gets into the nitty gritty of the novel, Lead Us Not, asking how much of the story is autobigraphical…
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Kate Middleton and Emma Darragh
In this episode, Mel talk to poet Kate Middleton about how television affects her teenage and grown-up self through her new poetry Television - a poetry collection that is part criticism, part autobiography. Writer and academic Emma Darragh also joined the podcast to discuss about her new novel...
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Panda Wong on Best of Australian Poems 2023 and Caitlin Farrugia on Search Histories
Jess Zanoni fills in for Mel and chats to Panda Wong - a writer, poet and co-editor of Best of Australian Poems 2023 (Puncher and Wattmann), co-edited with Gig Ryan. The anthology captures the rich and diverse array of poetry across Australia from 2022-23. Also joining Jess is Caitlin Farrugia to...
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Kiara Lindsay on 'A portrait of me running as fast as the plant is growing'
Jess fills in for Mel, and speaks to local Melbourne poet, Kiara Lindsay on her new debut poetry collection, A portrait of me running as fast as the plant is growing.
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Sarah M. Saleh on Her New Novel & Poetry Collection
Sara M. Saleh is a writer, a poet, human rights lawyer, organiser, and the daughter of Palestinian, Egyptian, and Lebanese migrants. She joins Mel to talk about two new books she's released this year: Songs for the Dead and the Living (out now through Affirm Press), and her new poetry collection...
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Mick Cummins and What You Become anthology
Eighteen year old Aaron is creative, resourceful and addicted to heroin. Kicked out of home by his mum and living rough on the streets of South Melbourne, he dreams of getting straight and starting again – but the system lets him down at every turn. Debut author and winner of the Victorian...
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Max Easton and Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
How can we live meaningful and creative lives amid the housing crisis? Max Easton dials in to chat rugby league, punk rock and backyard tape projects in his new novel Paradise Estate, which follows the trials and tribulations of a Sydney sharehouse over the course of 2022. And Jessica Zhan Mei Yu...
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Charlotte Wood and Amanda Lohrey
Decorated Australian authors Charlotte Wood and Amanda Lohrey join Mel on the show this week, to discuss their new novels Stone Yard Devotional and The Conversion. It’s a happy accident that these two reads are kindred spirits, each defined by spartan, meditative prose, an interest in secular...
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Siân Hughes
Siân Hughes, Cheshire-based poet, novelist and author of the 2023 Booker Prize longlisted Pearl, dials into the studio to discuss this lyrical and open-hearted debut. Siân shares the history of the medieval poem it’s named for, the process of writing a love song to her village and her mother, and...
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Melissa Lucashenko & Madeleine Gray
Multi-award winning Bundjalung writer Melissa Lucashenko joins Mel in the studio to talk about her latest novel Edenglassie: an epic tale that torches Queensland’s colonial myths, and asks Australians to ponder where to from here. Melissa also treats us to a reading from the book. Madeleine Gray...
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Sarah Firth and Elise Esther Hearst
This week, we step inside the colourful, questioning and ecstatically wild mind of debut author and Melbourne-based cartoonist Sarah Firth, whose illustrated essay collection Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays On Uncertainty is out now through Joan Press. She swings by the studio to…
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Roz Bellamy and Clem Bastow
In the final Radiothon instalment of Literati Glitterati for 2023, Mel takes a look at memoir, mental health, and the breadth and depth of neurodiverse writing. Roz Bellamy, editor of Archer magazine, swings by the studio to tell us about their debut memoir Mood, their love of Buffy the Vampire...
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Laura Jean McKay & Ella Skilbeck-Porter
Mel Fulton speaks to award-winning author Laura Jean McKay about her new short story collection Gunflower, which is set to be available on October 3rd. Mel also speaks to acclaimed poet and artist Ella Skilbeck-Porter about her debut poetry collection These Are Different Waters.
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Anna Kate Blair and Clem Bastow
Mel Fulton talks to Anna Kate Blair about the inspiration for her debut novel of 'The Modern'. Fellow Triple R host Clem Bastow drops by to chat about their debut non-fiction book 'Late Bloomer,' which is about being digonised with Autism later in life, and encourages fellow austic listners to...
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Katherine Brabon and Nadine J. Cohen
Mel speaks to Katherine Brabon about her new novel 'Body Friend', writing with a chronic disability and how her relationship with her body changes daily. Nadine J Cohen joins the show to chat with Mel about her debut novel 'Everyone and Everything', the joys of women's bathing pools and the...
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Allee Richards & New Australian Fiction
In the studio this week is Allee Richards, Melbourne theatre darling and award winning writer. Mel and Allee discuss her second novel, A Light in the Dark, which uses a tale of musical theatre to examine growing up while dealing with complex and difficult issues. Please note, there are mentions…
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Radiothon Special with Melissa Cranenburgh and Fiona Scott-Norman
For Literati Glitterati’s 2023 Radiothon Special, Mel is joined in the studio by Triple R legends, Melissa Cranenburgh and Fiona Scott-Norman. In this weeks episode, you will get to know a little more about the voices you may have heard on the airwaves in years gone by. They discuss their…
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett & Angela O'Keeffe
Mel is joined in the studio by Laura Elizabeth Woollett to discuss her latest short story collection, West Girls. She draws upon her experience growing up on Australia’s west coast to bring us tales of sex, money and power. Plus, Angela O'Keeffe talks about her novella, The Sitter, which is the...
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Reminiscing on Dorothy Porter's legacy with Andrea Goldsmith
Mel Fulton speaks to award-winning Australian writer Joel Deane about his new novel 'Judas Boys'. Joel opens up about the cartharsis that came with writing 'Judas Boys' - a story that explores running from the truth. She also talks to writer Andrea Goldsmith about the legacy of poet, the late...
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Madison Griffiths & The Amplify Collective
This week, Mel is joined in the studio by Madison Griffiths, writer, artist and producer of critically acclaimed podcast Tender. Madison discusses her debut novel Tissue, which is a candid depiction of her own experience of abortion. In this conversation, they talk about the catharsis of writing...
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FISH IN THE MEAT-WORKS, 06/08/2023
Mel Fulton is joined by Australian writer and host of the First Time podcast, Kate Mildenhall, as the two discuss and dissect Kate's unconventionally exciting novel The Hummingbird Effect (2023), a beautiful narrative following four different women who are connected across time and place by an...
About this show
Championing stylish wordsmiths and sterling conversation, Literati Glitterati is a weekly book show that loves a good story, well told. The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion
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RRR - Triple R