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Book(ish) with George Dimarelos — 106 episodes · page 1 of 2
Tom Ballard & The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: spoiling Christmas, writing longhand, and the point of political comedy
James Weir & I Was Told There'd Be Cake: tabloidification, the new theatre review, and retro 2009 chic
Craig Silvey & To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee's draft, wrestling the muse, and the filming trenches
Jillian Glover & Happy City: what people really want, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and people who hate parks
Gregory Ladner & Flowers for Mrs Harris: Melbourne fashion, antiques over travel, and a polite amount of revenge
Travis Larcombe & As Beautiful As Any Other: author friends, sharing stories, and emotional support beers
Eva Rodriguez Rodriguez & Range: double surnames, range benefits, and NASA crowdsourcing
Full Circle & Dr. Niraj Lal: flying emus, systemic technology, and fighting hopelessness
Tamsien West & My Brilliant Friend: a mystery author, widening your reading, and how to journal
Jake Griggs & The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: the magic of the Air Fryer, quitting while ahead, and efficient bacon & egg on toast
Dr Sophie Calabretto & The Midwich Cuckoos: fluid mechanics, repetitive politeness, and is it math or maths?
Paola Totaro & Perfume: losing your smell, Michael Hutchens in Paris, and journalist couple goals
Chris Flynn & I Am Legend: mammoth resurrection, childhood Troubles, and how to horrify a writers audience
Jarryd Goundrey & Sapiens: predicting the future, military tech advancements, and more Shane Warne mentions than you'd expect
Madeleine Buchner & Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: too many books at once, finding your tribe, and how Harry Potter is like Grease
The Secret History: Jewish private school, elite uni fetish, and girlfriends teach you to read with Eli Landes
The Running Man: a billionaire friend, writing hammered, and how to be good at comedy with Jez Watts
Shogun: memory training, imposter syndrome and focussing on details with Anastasia Woolmer
Lost Connections: hitting bottom, hearing yourself, and lifestyle design with Blake Worrall Thompson
Music, Language, and the Brain: measuring music and language, learning via tune, and universal beats with Anna Fiveash
White Queen Psychology: why philosophy, eugenics, and stirring the pot with Rob Wilson
A Wizard of Earthsea: lawyering, gigging, and wizards with Andrew Portelli
The Untethered Soul: professional instagramming, a well timed 2020, and learning to accept mentors with Lauren Bath
The Americans: choosing culture, technological social change, and why New Yorkers need to relax with Dr Sam Han
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature: COP26, climate change anxiety, and learning via potty humour with Laura Wells
The Way of Kings: brains on drugs, hard magic, and colourful engineering with Dr Kiara Bruggeman
Project Hail Mary - defining insects, swarm intelligence, and irrational slime moulds with Dr Tanya Latty
Man's Search for Meaning: word limits, growth, and the right book at the right time with Tara Lal
Carpentaria: woeful prize money, magical realism as reality, and what is Australian literature with Prof Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
The War of Art: giving recommendations, fighting Resistance, and going solo in the eye of a pandemic
Around the World in Eighty Days: banking vs academia, debt wizardry, and Melbournes most renowned export with Lee Smales
The Talented Mr. Ripley: the best sunsets, rorting the rich, and Tim Winton speeches with Alistair Baldwin
Labyrinths: games vs tech, building escapes and delicious world history with Nick McDonnell
The Lovely Bones: bad adaptations, the Essendon conspiracy, and finding beauty in the paint on your walls with Kit Richards
The Arrival: forced optimism, mild migration, and remembering the weird with Mete Erdogan
Disgrace: sad books when you're sad, stripping yourself away, and intellectual fight club with Rose Bishop
Caste: modern documentaries, caste vs class, and the best Curry Western with Dr Vikrant Kishore
The Rum Diary: the shifting sands of media, conservative satire, and finding joy in constant deadlines with Dylan Behan
The God of Small Things: trees as people, the crowns land, and a class perspective with Dr Samantha Hepburn
Tomorrow When The War Began: lessons from tiling, Australian film, and being a coward with Matt Kazacos
The Savage Detectives: fake histories, famous namesakes and the terror of reading with Oliver Coleman
Fabric of the Cosmos: 19 years in comedy, theoretical physics, and an orgy that changed scientific history with Johnny Kats
Batman and the Court of Owls: motivational superheroes, acting as the fallback job and the love of escapism
It's Always Something: ADHD, sick dogs, and kindred spirits with Kelly Fastuca
Irradiated Cities: poetry wars, unjustifying Hiroshima, and public intellectuals with Cassandra Atherton
Slaughterhouse-Five: #radiolyfe, slogging through books, and hot tub twitch streaming with Hayden Bleechmore
The Ghost Writer: studying at Oxford, committing to the bit and appreciating meta with Andrew Dean
Into the Wild: big vocabularies, nature "therapy" and circular debates with Jackson Baly
House of X/Powers of X: the undying audio drama, forming your team, and a whole lot of geekery with Joel Zammit
Dracula: a monster geek, bad wax museum and Bizarre Love Triangle with Matt O'Neill
Desert Royal: subtly showing your wealth, women in the Middle East, and when sharing isn't sharing with Dr Marian Makkar
The Mindbody Prescription: trombone jazz, everyone's sissy subconscious and crying away the pain with Simon Carter
American Psycho: hedge fund trading, judging bougie culture and emotion in the workplace
A Little Life: food technology, loneliness and hypnotherapy with Georgie Thursby
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: good and bad jewish jokes, the sci fi spectrum, and dads expressing love with David Rose
Mindset: working with statistics, migrating for personal growth and picking a career with Dr Harsha Shetty
Y: The Last Man: extremist empathy, nomadic performer life, and a new petition on daylight savings with Jon Bennett
The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind: leaving the party while you're still having fun, building a hot sauce empire and post-music festival magic with Renae Bunster
The Midnight Library: road comic life, sliding doors and being crushed by London with Anthony Jeannot
The happiest refugee: funny Germans, trying new things and intergenerational trauma with Maren Whitaker
The Razor's Edge: not writing, philosophy in your 20's and class migration with Luke Leonard
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: an awkward McConaughey interview, comedy vs drama and being a Frasier fan with Thomas Mitchell
The Things They Carried: spec scripts, patriotism and story telling with Jordan Breeding
Lolita: writing on location, moral ambiguity and being 50/50 on love existing with Pip Drysdale
1984: the limits of love, staycations and why psychics have six month wait times with Simon Taylor
The Beginning of Infinity: a nihilistic Hitchhikers Guide, pent up comedy energy, and opening your emotional valve with John Dore
Catch-22: reasons to do comedy, communist monopoly and all sorts of flagellation with Mikey Robins
The Alchemist: drinking wine on your couch for a job, Eckhart Tolle's views on applause, and far more chicken references than you'd expect with Yvie Jones
Gone Girl: cancelling footballers, the cool girl trope, and revenge fantasies with Elouise Eftos
The Picture of Dorian Gray: politics at the dinner table, luscious writing and never seeing a sunrise with Pat McCaffrie
Honeybee: interviewing authors, writing outside your life and hearing songs on repeat with Gavin Miller
Mugabe: growing up Zimbabwe, lawyer turned rapper and understanding history with Simba Mak
Exit West: immigrant cuisine, vegan kids and too many recommendations with Andrew Levins
Coconut Children: Hijabs in the members stand, the immigrant parent gap and being the youngest sibling with Rana Hussein
Holding the Man: overthinking, time traveling through books and falling in love with Benjamin Norris
Talking to Strangers: crazy youth, non-traditional weddings and feeling misunderstood with Josh Withers
Assassin's Apprentice: growing up Mormon, living in reverse and the need for escapism with Ali Plath
Watchers: Hamish and Andy, 1980’s Adelaide and mean cat sellers with Ben Wasley
Fossil Capital: angels in Paris, honouring your forefathers and the return of Marxism with Liz Conor
Americanah: culture shock, rewiring your brain and connecting women to healthcare with Dr Cortina McCurry
Wiseguy: growing up country, getting away with murder and asian restaurants with Michael Billings
Flowers in the Attic: incest, cancel culture and working for Rove with Alex Jae
Jaws: growing up Torres Strait, learning to open up and the worlds best dad-in-law with Elliot Lovejoy
The Perks of being a Wallflower: quarantine radio, dyslexia and optimism with Sarah Maree
A Manual for Cleaning Women: quarantine skateboarding and the philosophy of terrorism with David Quirk
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest: authoritarianism, sophomore albums and the benefits of big sisters with Lewis Garnham
The Glass Menagerie: language, creativity and knowing how you feel with Joseph Green
Atomised: authorial intent, sex and incels with Angus Gordon
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler: deconstructing genres, too many Star Wars references and when uni disappoints with Tom Reed
Stephen King's It: hispanic trans Superman, working in a bookstore and horror vs comedy with Anna Piper Scott
Of Mice and Men: book cheating and regret with Dave Warneke
The 13 Clocks: befriending Neil Gaiman, discussing free speech and a defence of Twilight with Alice Fraser
The Sellout: Black Lives Matter, leaving religion and when to speed-read with Aurelia St Clair
On the Shortness of Life: philosophy, politics and an insight into medicine with Dr. Rahul Khanna
Then We Came to the End; Western Sydney pubs, office work and writing for fun with Peter Jones
The Snow Leopard: climbing Everest and the burden of a healthy childhood with Sean Carney
A Confederacy of Dunces: a very modern love story, New York comedy and child reprogramming centres with Katharyn Henson
White Noise: consumerism, consciousness and death with Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall
Zorba the Greek: passion, art and being Greek with Alexei Toliopoulos
1984: dating, taking different things from a book and modern doublethink with Aidan Taco Jones