Speaker 1: Somehow Improbably it's twenty twenty five and usual business is
Speaker 1: about to resume. I'm Michael Williams and read this is
Speaker 1: coming back for another year of the books we love
Speaker 1: and the stories behind them. If you're just joining us
Speaker 1: for the first time, that's pretty much the entire brief
Speaker 1: we get writers on I get to sit and chat
Speaker 1: to them, and we understand more about their process, their books,
Speaker 1: and the world in which they live. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: we had a cavalcade of spectacular guests. I had a
Speaker 1: revelatory conversation with All Fours author Miranda July. We talked
Speaker 1: about how she begins writing a book.
Speaker 2: Usually I'm just down on my knees looking up this guy,
Speaker 2: being like, whenever you're ready, I'll take the lightning bolt
Speaker 2: of my next movie or book.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Knox admitted the power of the pen not just
Speaker 1: on the page, but to completely reinvent a personality.
Speaker 3: I don't see myself as courageous or active until I
Speaker 3: sit at the keyboard where you know, are fair to
Speaker 3: see if my own self takes over.
Speaker 1: We heard from literary powerhouses like Roxane Gay.
Speaker 4: Every time you read a book back, you start to
Speaker 4: see texting. In my novel and untem State, Mirae, the protagonist,
Speaker 4: she exhales cigarettes smokes so much, and I'm clearly using
Speaker 4: it as this device to show that she's sad or
Speaker 4: she's pensive. And when I read through the novel, I
Speaker 4: was like, my God, she exhales too much.
Speaker 1: To the writers who scooped up all the awards in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, like the extraordinary, alexis right.
Speaker 5: I decided very early in my literary career obviously going
Speaker 5: to be trapped in anyone's books, you know about how
Speaker 5: I should write and what I should write.
Speaker 1: All in all, a year of excellent fun, brilliantly intelligent guests,
Speaker 1: and plenty to laugh about.
Speaker 3: I mean, in this there's a level that I feel underappreciate, soldly.
Speaker 1: Poor, and ride poor, underappreciated, and.
Speaker 5: You've no idea how I suffer.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough one to beat, but
Speaker 1: we could not be more ready to dive in and
Speaker 1: bring you another year of conversations from some of the
Speaker 1: best writers from Australia and around the world. From Schwartz Media.
Speaker 1: This is Read This. New episodes are going to drop
Speaker 1: from January sixteenth and every Thursday. After that, listen wherever
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