# The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang

An episode of [The Bookshelf](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/499762704), 15 Nov 2024, 54 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/3v/Z/ao.mp3

Derided, disparaged and cursed to the heavens, book critics are depicted as literature’s grand villains – as frustrated creators and gleeful wreckers. But what do critics really do? And why are they necessary for a healthy literary ecosystem? James Jiang, Beejay Silcox and Christos Tsiolkas join Kate and Cassie as part of a panel discussion at Canberra Writers' Festival - five Aussie critics - making the case for criticism.

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