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Slow Reader
by Jasper Peach
Jasper Peach is a writer, editor and reader who takes a while to finish books. In this podcast they'll chat with writers, readers and other literary folks about how the words come together, the stories find the page and the perspectives that are shared.
Episodes
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Slow Reader episode 14: Melanie Saward
Melanie Saward has a new book out! Love Unleashed is a romantic comedy with modern representation of First Nations people. In the 2010’s humour would often revolve around queerphobia, fatphobia and othering in general. Mel’s done a PhD about romantic comedy writing and I could have listened to…
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Slow Reader Episode 13: Eleanor Elliott Thomas
Eleanor Elliott Thomas published her debut novel The Opposite of Success in 2023. We had a chat during the summer school holidays about crowbarring writing into a legal career, the Faber Academy course that helped shape this work and Thomas' expertise, fat characters who are not the sidekick,...
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Slow Reader Episode 12: Emily Hart and Ailsa Wild
Joining me for a belated upload for this episode are two marvellous folks. Ailsa Wild and Emily Hart. Em is up first, giving us the skinny, the 411 on what goes on in publishing. Emily was award the 2022 Rising Star award at the ABIA awards. At the time of recording (October 2022) Emily was…
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Slow Reader episode 11: Catherine Deveny
We're back! Joining me for episode 11 is Catherine Deveny. Writer, comedian, public speaker, writing coach, Brunswick loving cafe fiend. We speak about her memoir True North, and this conversation happened fricken ages ago but I got stuck with the editing because it's hard and I didn't want to....
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Slow Reader episode 10: Eloise Grills
Joining me for episode 10 is Eloise Grills, author of the astonishing and brilliant illustrated memoir big beautiful female theory (all lower case on purpose). We talk about writing the body, the self, awards, shaking off that self conscious buzzing to get in the zone, and a bunch more. If you're...
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Slow Reader episode 9: Olivia A Muscat
Joining me for episode 9 is Olivia A Muscat, a writer and reader who loves audiobooks. We talk about the absolute bullshit that is ableist gatekeeping, the changes over time in technology for blind and vision impaired readers and the love we share for teenage fiction. You can keep up with…
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Slow Reader episode 8: Sarah Krasnostein
Sarah Krasnostein does a deep dive like nobody else - author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer, she joins me to chat about finding her subjects, the nature of a full life as a creative parent, and that perhaps the secret might be doing the transcripts straight away, instead of leaving them…
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Slow Reader episode 7: Rachael Wenona Guy
The Hungry Air is a collection of poetry that explore a life, a body, a family and the pain of disconnection and severing of ties. I speak with Rachael Wenona Guy about this exquisite collection.
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Slow Reader episode 6: Andy Jackson
What does the future of health look like? How do you write poetry about a disabled body, about your disabled body? Andy Jackson's book Human Looking is an exquisite collection of poems exploring personal and historical accounts of the body. The institutionalising of difference, the fellowship we...
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Slow Reader episode 5: Tilly Lawless
Nothing But My Body is such a beautiful read, and after many years of beholding the wondrous words and actions of Tilly Lawless through her tender and honest Instagram presence it was fantastic to purchase her book. We caught up in the sky as pixels and soundwaves late in 2021 to discuss her...
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Slow Reader episode 4: Jazz Money
What a shining star of a human Jazz Money is. A great pleasure to chat with her about her book of poetry "how to make a basket". We talk about lower case letters, fonts, formatting, and creative practices. Felt pleased as punch to have two excellent readings in this chat as well! Enjoy and make...
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Slow Reader episode 3: Jacinta Parsons
RN host, all round lovely person and author Jacinta Parsons and I chat twice in the space of forty minutes (well, really over six months) about her excellent book Unseen, as well as her chapter in the collection of essays by disabled parents We've Got This (edited by Eliza Hull) which will be out...
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Slow Reader episode 2: Jenny Valentish
Launchtime9000! Jenny Valentish is launching her absolute cracker of a book Everything Harder Than Everyone Else at the Port Melbourne Bowls Club on Tuesday 30th of November, 2021. Get along if you can. Thanks to Monique Boggia for the tunes, you're the best. Next time - Jacinta Parsons and her...
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Slow Reader episode 1: Dr. Kaya Wilson
Welcome to the first full episode of Slow Reader. I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Kaya Wilson not once, but twice. His memoir As Beautiful As Any Other (Picador) was the book that got me back in the saddle of reading after a long hiatus. My sincere thanks to Main FM and Sherene Clow, host of...
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Hi I'm Jasper Peach, and I'm a slow reader. I'll be sharing interviews with writers, readers and other literary folks when I can. I love audiobooks, because I can process auditory information much more easily than the visual. If the author has read their own work, even better. Recorded on unceded...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jasper Peach is a writer, editor and reader who takes a while to finish books. In this podcast they'll chat with writers, readers and other literary folks about how the words come together, the stories find the page and the perspectives that are shared.
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How many episodes does Slow Reader have?
Slow Reader currently has 15 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Slow Reader about?
Jasper Peach is a writer, editor and reader who takes a while to finish books. In this podcast they'll chat with writers, readers and other literary folks about how the words come together, the stories find the page and the perspectives that are shared.
How often does Slow Reader release new episodes?
Slow Reader has 15 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Slow Reader is created and hosted by Jasper Peach.
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