Cassie and Claire Nichols team up on stage at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival to grill some huge literary stars on their reading lives: Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, U.S. bestseller Celeste Ng, and Australia’s Christos Tsoilkas.
GUESTS
- Paul Lynch, internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels including the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song
- Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
- Christos Tsiolkas, author of eight novels, including the international bestseller The Slap. His latest is The In-Between
BOOKS AND WRITERS MENTIONED
- Colm Tóibín, works
- Gustave Flaubert, works
- Graham Greene, works
- Marcel Proust, works
- Virginia Woolf, works
- E.M. Forster, works
- Flannery O'Connor, works
- Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
- Patrick White, works
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed; Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Vladimir Nabokov, works
- Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
- John Steinbeck, The Breakfast
- Saul Bellow, Herzog
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- William Faulkner, works
- Charles Dickens, works
- William Shakespeare, works
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
- Stendahl, The Red and the Black
- Hannah Kent, Devotion
- Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor
- Christos also mentioned the film criticism of Pauline Kael)
CREDITS
- Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Claire Nichols
- Producer, Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Beth Stewart + David Le May
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown