A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
· 57 min
Episode A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America in Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit; rusted robots, prosthetic limbs, AI and noisy families in Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author; and coercive control and walking on eggshells in Irish writer Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting; and a brief foray into the world of ‘romantasy’ and the international bestseller Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.
BOOKS
Morgan Talty, Fire Exit, Scribe
Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm [Book three in the Fourth Wing/Empyrean series], Piatkus
Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author, Gollancz
Roisín O’Donnell, Nesting, Scribner
GUESTS
Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sydney; and co-host of the podcast Film Versus Film
Sarah Gilbert, journalist, Executive Producer, Impact Studios, University of Technology, Sydney. Her latest book is Unconventional Women: The Story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia. She is currently writing a biblio-memoir set in Buenos Aires, and has a podcast coming with Sydney Review of Books called Fully Lit
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Nikki May, Wahala
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Cazalet Chronicles
Elsa Morante, Lies and Sorcery
Elene Ferrante, works
CREDITS
• Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh • Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett • Sound engineer, John Jacobs and Harvey O'Sullivan • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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