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SJ Norman on ‘Permafrost’: First Book Club from 2021-11-29T22:00:13
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For November that debut is Permafrost by SJ Norman, out now from UQP.
Pub Talk: Leah Jing McIntosh from Liminal from 2021-11-09T20:00:49
Welcome to the second episode of our new interview series, Pub Talk, where we chat to some of Australia’s most experienced and influential publishers, editors and agents. During these conversations...
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Gary Nunn on ‘The Psychic Tests’: First Book Club from 2021-10-26T22:00:22
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For October that debut is The Psychic Tests by Gary Nunn, out now from Pante...
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Allee Richards on ‘Small Joys of Real Life’: First Book Club from 2021-09-28T23:00:28
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For September that debut is Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards, out n...
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Pub Talk: Brigid Mullane from Ultimo Press from 2021-09-14T23:00:28
Welcome to the first episode of our new interview series, Pub Talk, where we chat to some of Australia’s most experienced and influential publishers, editors and agents. During these conversations ...
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New Australian Fiction 2021 from 2021-08-31T23:00:37
We're thrilled to bring you this special podcast episode celebrating the publication of our third print anthology, New Australian Fiction 2021. New Australian Fiction 2021 collects a number of bril...
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Clem Bastow on ‘Late Bloomer’: First Book Club from 2021-08-17T20:00:32
'When you don’t understand something that important about yourself, [diagnosis is] almost a kind of cheat code to go back and understand things that you’ve been through.'
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Amani Haydar on The Mother Wound: KYD First Book Club from 2021-07-22T23:00:06
Editor’s Note: This conversation includes discussion of family violence.
'We’ve got an ongoing conversation happening about violence against women in Australia, and I felt that it was impo...
First Book Club: Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’ from 2021-06-24T23:00:10
For our June First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Lisa Emanuel to discuss her debut novel ‘The Covered Wife’, out now from Pantera Press.
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Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’: First Book Club from 2021-06-24T23:00:10
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel, out now from Panter...
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First Book Club: Lech Blaine on ‘Car Crash’ from 2021-05-13T20:00:56
For our May First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Lech Blaine to discuss his debut memoir ‘Car Crash’, out now from Black Inc.
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KYD First Book Club: Lech Blaine on ‘Car Crash’ from 2021-05-13T20:00:56
For our May First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Lech Blaine to discuss his debut memoir ‘Car Crash’, out now from Black Inc.
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Lech Blaine on ‘Car Crash’: First Book Club from 2021-05-13T20:00:56
'I wanted to dig into the complexity of an event like that, and allow people to see not just the humanity of the people involved, but also the negative aspects of how these events play out.'
First Book Club: A Room Called Earth (with Madeleine Ryan) from 2021-04-29T23:36:48
For our April First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Madeleine Ryan to discuss her debut novel 'A Room Called Earth', out now from Scribe Publications.
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KYD First Book Club: A Room Called Earth (with Madeleine Ryan) from 2021-04-29T23:36:48
For our April First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Madeleine Ryan to discuss her debut novel 'A Room Called Earth', out now from Scribe Publications.
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Madeleine Ryan on ‘A Room Called Earth’: First Book Club from 2021-04-29T23:36:48
'Conversations can be really dull compared to our inner lives, and I find that fascinating. The book was, for me, a real exploration of that difference.'
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KYD First Book Club: Dropbear (with Evelyn Araluen) from 2021-03-30T21:00:59
For our March First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Evelyn Araluen to discuss her debut 'Dropbear', out now from UQP.
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First Book Club: Dropbear (with Evelyn Araluen) from 2021-03-30T21:00:59
For our March First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Evelyn Araluen to discuss her debut 'Dropbear', out now from UQP.
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Evelyn Araluen on ‘Dropbear’: First Book Club from 2021-03-30T21:00:59
"Particularly after the hellish year we've just had, poetry makes the burden of existence a lot nicer."
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the...
‘The Shape of Sound’ and ‘Why Are You Like This’ from 2021-03-17T19:00:35
KYD’s Hayley May Bracken, Alan Vaarwerk and Suzy Garcia discuss Fiona Murphy's new memoir The Shape of Sound (available 30 March from Text Publishing) and its exploration of how her deaf experience...
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KYD First Book Club: Eating With My Mouth Open (with Sam van Zweden) from 2021-02-23T22:00:30
For our February First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Sam van Zweden to discuss her debut 'Eating With My Mouth Open', out now from NewSouth Books.
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First Book Club: Sam van Zweden on ‘Eating With My Mouth Open’ from 2021-02-23T22:00:30
For our February First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Sam van Zweden to discuss her debut 'Eating With My Mouth Open', out now from NewSouth Books.
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Sam van Zweden on ‘Eating With My Mouth Open’: First Book Club from 2021-02-23T22:00:30
"I started to interrogate my own relationship with food and realise that it wasn't so simple."
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‘The Imitator’ by Rebecca Starford from 2021-02-01T21:00:15
In this special episode we're talking to KYD publishing director Rebecca Starford about her new historical fiction novel, The Imitator, out now from Allen & Unwin. The Imitator is a page-turnin...
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Earthlings and Voxdocs from 2020-12-01T19:00:33
The KYD team get together once again to discuss acclaimed Japanese author Sayaka Murata's experimental, compelling and disturbing new novel Earthlings, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori and publi...
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KYD First Book Club: Lucky’s (with Andrew Pippos) from 2020-11-24T19:00:15
For our November First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Andrew Pippos to discuss his debut novel 'Lucky's', out now from Picador Australia.
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First Book Club: Lucky’s (with Andrew Pippos) from 2020-11-24T19:00:15
"I wanted to write about how someone changes over the course of a life, and how a culture changes."
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kil...
KYD First Book Club: Hysteria (with Katerina Bryant) from 2020-10-21T19:00:12
For our October First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Katerina Bryant to discuss her debut memoir ‘Hysteria’, out now from NewSouth Publishing.
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First Book Club: Hysteria (with Katerina Bryant) from 2020-10-21T19:00:12
"My illness is not a metaphor. Any amount of self-reflection in the world will not make it go away."
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KYD First Book Club: The F Team (with Rawah Arja) from 2020-09-28T23:00:29
For our September First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Rawah Arja to discuss her debut YA novel ‘The F Team’, out now from Giramondo Publications.
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First Book Club: The F Team (with Rawah Arja) from 2020-09-28T23:00:29
"I love to tell the story of my rejection and put it out there in the world because I know that so many emerging writers are facing the same dilemmas that I was."
Each month we celebrate a...
Having and Being Had & Hungry Ghosts from 2020-09-23T23:00:19
This month the KYD team are discussing Eula Biss’s latest genre defying work ‘Having and Being Had’, a series of linked essays in which Biss explores her lived experience of capitalism, along with ...
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New Australian Fiction 2020 from 2020-08-31T22:00:18
We're thrilled to bring you this special podcast episode celebrating the publication of our second print anthology, New Australian Fiction 2020. New Australian Fiction 2020 collects a number of bri...
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KYD First Book Club: The Fogging (with Luke Horton) from 2020-08-26T23:00:02
For our August First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Luke Horton to discuss his debut novel ‘The Fogging’, out now from Scribe Publications.
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First Book Club: The Fogging (with Luke Horton) from 2020-08-26T23:00:02
"We’re living in increasingly anxious times…I think it’s bubbling away in the backdrop of every contemporary novel in some way."
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fict...
The Vanishing Half and Stateless from 2020-08-04T20:00:45
In this episode, the KYD team get together (remotely) to discuss Brit Bennett's expansive, multi-generational saga The Vanishing Half (Dialogue Books), and the six-part ABC drama Stateless, which e...
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KYD First Book Club: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (with Jessie Tu) from 2020-07-21T20:00:54
For our July First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Jessie Tu to discuss her debut novel ‘A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing’, out now from Allen & Unwin.
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First Book Club: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (with Jessie Tu) from 2020-07-21T20:00:54
"I honestly think that the root of racism is a lack of empathy. If you grew up only watching movies where the central character is a white dude you’re only ever going to learn how to empathise with...
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KYD First Book Club: ‘Fathoms’ (with Rebecca Giggs) from 2020-06-17T20:00:49
For our June First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Rebecca Giggs to discuss her debut book ‘Fathoms: The World in the Whale’, out now from Scribe.
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First Book Club: ‘Fathoms’ (with Rebecca Giggs) from 2020-06-17T20:00:49
'I suddenly realised that all these environmental problems—consumer culture, plastic pollution, animal welfare—they all came together inside the whale.'
Each month we celebrate an Australi...
The Octopus & I and Normal People from 2020-06-04T20:00:20
In this month's podcast, the KYD team get together remotely once again to discuss human–animal relationships and Erin Hortle's stunning Tasman-soaked debut novel The Octopus & I (Allen & Un...
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KYD First Book Club: ‘Please Don’t Hug Me’ (with Kay Kerr) from 2020-05-21T20:00:42
'I would love young autistic girls to find this book, first and foremost…there’s not a lot of books out there where they would see themselves reflected back.'
Each month we celebrate an Au...
KYD First Book Club: ‘The Adversary’ (with Ronnie Scott) from 2020-04-21T20:00:30
'We’ve all had that feeling where the ground has shifted when you weren’t quite paying attention.'
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Silicon Valley Book Club from 2020-04-14T20:00:05
This episode of the KYD Podcast is coming straight to you from our respective bunkers—though we can’t promise we look as stylish as Ira Glass while doing it.
In the episode we use tech to discu...
KYD First Book Club: Shirl (with Wayne Marshall) from 2020-03-26T19:00:16
“I see no reason why short stories have to be small. I think they can be large. I think they can be big experiences.”
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KYD First Book Club: Cherry Beach (with Laura McPhee-Browne) from 2020-02-20T19:00:40
Content Warning: This recording contains discussion relating to mental illness and suicide.
‘Most of us have had a chaotic relationship or two…the experience of loving someone is rarely n...
New Australian Fiction at the Australian Short Story Festival from 2019-12-15T19:00:21
In October we were thrilled to join the Australian Short Story Festival for a special event celebrating our first print anthology. New Australian Fiction 2019 collects a number of brilliant short s...
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KYD First Book Club: Being Black ‘N Chicken & Chips (with Matt Okine) from 2019-11-26T19:00:38
“There are certain ingredients in every dish that you eat that you don’t necessarily love, but other people do, and that creates the whole flavour of the meal.”
Each month we celebr...
KYD First Book Club: ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ (with Ruby Hamad) from 2019-10-22T21:47:44
Each month we celebrate an Australian debut in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For October we’re thrilled to focus on Ruby Hamad’s book, White Tears/Brown Scars, out now with MUP.
White...
Handmaids & Influencers from 2019-10-15T20:57:26
From Handmaids to influencers, KYD's Meaghan Dew, Alan Vaarwerk, Ellen Cregan and Alice Cottrell unpack Margaret Atwood’s (newly joint Booker Prize-winning) 'The Testaments', and the inventive new ...
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KYD First Book Club: ‘The House of Youssef’ (with Yumna Kassab) from 2019-10-02T20:00:46
For our September First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Yumna Kassab to discuss reading, editing and the process of writing her debut short fiction collection ‘The House of Youssef’.
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KYD First Book Club: ‘It Sounded Better In My Head’ (with Nina Kenwood) from 2019-09-09T20:00:27
For our August First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Nina Kenwood to discuss her debut YA noval ‘It Sounded Better In My Head’, recorded live at Readings St Kilda on 22 August.
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MIFF 2019: Adaptations and ‘Animals’ (with Sophie Hyde) from 2019-08-07T20:00:18
To celebrate the Melbourne International Film Festival, the KYD team shares their favourite book to film adaptations, and we chat to director Sophie Hyde about her film 'Animals'.
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KYD First Book Club: A Constant Hum (with Alice Bishop) from 2019-07-29T20:00:51
For our July First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Alice Bishop to discuss her debut collection ‘A Constant Hum’, recorded live at Readings State Library Victoria on 18 July.
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KYD First Book Club: ‘Little Stones’ (with Elizabeth Kuiper) from 2019-07-08T22:00:58
For our June First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Elizabeth Kuiper to discuss her debut novel 'Little Stones’, recorded live at Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library on 25 June.
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KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Stop Being Reasonable’ from 2019-06-18T22:00:24
Ellen Cregan sits down with Eleanor Gordon-Smith to discuss her debut book 'Stop Being Reasonable’, recorded live at Readings Carlton on 23 May.
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Don’t Be A Stranger (with Melanie Cheng) from 2019-06-03T16:59:20
Melanie Cheng joins Alice Cottrell, Alan Vaarwerk and Ellen Cregan in the studio to discuss her new novel Room For A Stranger and her recent work as a guest-curator at the Sydney Writers Festival.<...
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Speculative Fiction Showcase Sampler from 2019-05-07T22:00:15
Hear readings from our first ever Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Showcase, read by Jane Rawson, J.R. Hennessy, J.A. Haigh, Angela Meyer and Claire Corbett.
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