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The Secret To Getting Inspired: Millie Bobby Brown & Chris Pratt Go Behind The Scenes 21:04

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Step into the mysterious and visually stunning world of The Electric State as host Francesca Amiker takes you behind the scenes with the creative masterminds who brought Simon Stålenhag’s dystopian vision to life. In this premiere episode, directors Joe and Anthony Russo, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and producers Angela Russo-Otstot and Chris Castaldi reveal how they transformed a haunting graphic novel into an epic cinematic experience. Watch The Electric State coming to Netflix on March 14th. Check out more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

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The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams 54:00

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Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film. He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.…

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A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State 54:07

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Families, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years and is set against the expansive beauty of Montana; mysterious encounters and marital strife between an actor and an art critic in New York in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann. BOOKS Eric Puchner, Dream State, Sceptre Katie Kitamura, Audition, Fern Press Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, Bloomsbury GUESTS Mark Mordue, music writer, journalist, poet – whose books include Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave. He’s also director of the Addi Road Writers Festival – a community festival in Sydney’s Marrickville – coming up on Saturday 17 May Gretchen Shirm, novelist and literary critic – whose books include Having Cried Wolf, The Crying Room and her latest (published this month), Out of the Woods OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJohn Irving, The World According to GarpSvetlana Alexievich, worksT.S. Eliot, GerontionLucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My NameHan Kang, We Do Not PartJames Bradley, LandfallClinton Heylin, Behind the Shades RevisitedPatrick Holland, OblivionBret Easton Ellis, Less than Zero CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, John Jacobs + Dylan Prins Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown…

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Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala 1:13:09

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Cassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose). BOOKS Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves, writer, academic, teacher of creative writing. Her collection of short stories, The Permanent Resident, was published in India and South Asia as, Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney Annie Coulthard has worked in radio and publishing – and is a dedicated reader OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report Franz Kafka, works Michelle de Krester, Questions of Travel; Theory and Practice Christopher Isherwood, works Melanie Cheng, The Burrow Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre Elizabeth Jane Howard, We Are For the Dark Sanya Rushdi, Hospital Jessie Tu, The Honeyeater Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13; The Sun Walks Down Eileen Chong, We Speak of Flowers CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Simon Branthwaite Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown…

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Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train steaming towards disaster . . . 54:06

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Kate and Cassie read three new works of fiction, with the help of two guest reviewers: a novel of ideas, death, love and music, in Australian writer Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life; a real train derailment from the 1890s hurtles together rail workers, coffee sellers, anarcho-feminism, art and typewriters in Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue's The Paris Express (read with historical novelist Natasha Lester); and rocknroll choices, career crises and friendship in Australian YA author Claire Zorn's first adult novel, Better Days (read with doco maker and academic, Anna Broinowski). BOOKS Andrea Goldsmith, The Buried Life, Transit Lounge Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express, Picador Claire Zorn, Better Days, Atlantic Books GUESTS Natasha Lester, historical novelist whose books include A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald, The Paris Seamstress and The French Photographer. Her latest novel — her ninth — is The Mademoiselle Alliance, and it was published last week Anna Broinowski is a documentary maker, memoirist and academic at Sydney College of the Arts. Her books include Datsun Angel: A true-story adventure inside the savage heart of 1980s Australia and Please Explain: The rise and fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson. She also works on the films of North Korea and the impact of deep fakes Other books mentioned in the discussion: Sarah Wynne-Williams, Careless People Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep Cameron Stewart, Why do Horses Run Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest CREDITS • Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh • Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett • Sound engineers: Emrys Cronin, Simon Branthwaite • Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown…

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Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts 54:36

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Kate and Cassie discuss bestselling American writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s sharp and observant collection of short stories Show Don’t Tell; You Am I frontman Tim Rogers reads First Name Second Name, an excellent debut from Queensland novelist Steve MinOn, and the ABC’s own Zan Rowe (of Triple J, Double J and Take 5 fame) shares her thoughts on Scottish singer-songwriter (from Belle and Sebastian) Stuart Murdoch’s Nobody’s Empire, a case of life inspiring art. BOOKS Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don’t Tell, Doubleday Stuart Murdoch, Nobody’s Empire: A Novel, Faber Steve MinOn, First Name Second Name, UQP GUESTS Tim Rogers, lead singer with You Am I and The Hard-Ons, about to launch into a You Am I tour celebrating 30 years of the Hi Fi Way album . Author of Detours Zan Rowe, Double J’s Music Correspondent and host of Friday Mornings; presenter of Take 5 OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies Robbie Arnott, Dusk Hannah Kent, works Lech Blaine, Australian Gospel Helen Garner, The Season; Monkey Grip Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days; Horse Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking Jennifer Homans, Mr. B Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Emrys Cronin Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown…

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This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence 54:05

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This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence with Nobel Prize-winning English-Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft; while guest reviewers Tim Ayliffe reads Laurent Binet’s Perspectives; and Siang Lu reads David Szalay’s Flesh. BOOKS Abdulrazak Gurnah, Theft, Bloomsbury Laurent Binet, Perspectives (translated from the French by Sam Taylor), Harvill Secker David Szalay, Flesh, Jonathan Cape GUESTS Tim Ayliffe, journalist and crime writer – whose John Bailey series include the books The Enemy Within, Killer Traitor Spy, and The Wrong Man Siang Lu, writes for film and TV and is also the author of the books Ghost Cities and The Whitewash OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDMichael Connelly, works Leon Uris, worksJohn Le Carre, worksStephen King, worksAndrew O'Hagan, Caledonian Road; MayfliesNick Cave and Swan O'Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage Sara Foster, When She Was GoneCamille Booker, The Woman in the WavesNatasha Rai, An Onslaught of LightSteve MinOn, First Name Second Name…

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On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro 54:06

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This edition of the Bookshelf was recorded on stage at Adelaide Writers' Week on Sunday 2 March – with Irish writer Niall Williams (Time of the Child), English writer Charlotte Mendelson (Wife) and all the way from the Adelaide Hills, Australian writer Brian Castro (Chinese Postman). How and when do they do their best reading, what have books meant to them, what are their influences and touchstones? With a surprising swerve or to into the bath and to the funeral of a beloved author. BOOKS MENTIONED Laurence Sterne, works James Joyce, works, Ulysses Samuel Beckett, works P. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in Ireland Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bleak House W.G.Sebald, Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz Thomas Bernhard, works Helen Garner, Diaries; The Children's Bach; Monkey Grip Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls; Memoir Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil Salvatore Satta, The Day of Judgment Samantha Harvey, Orbital Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Astronauts Louise Glück, works Anne Carson, works Jelena Dinic, works Alistair MacLeod, Ireland and Other Stories John McGahern, Amongst Women Percival Everett, James Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store Patrick Lane, There is a Season Alba de Céspedes, works Elena Ferrante, works…

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Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage 54:06

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Four women’s lives intertwined between Africa and the USA in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count. Plus, secrets and trauma in the South of France in Australian novelist Diana Reid’s new one, Signs of Damage; and into the Swedish wilderness to observe a group of seven unlikely people in indie musician turned novelist Annika Norlin’s Colony. BOOKS Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count, Fourth Estate Diana Reid, Signs of Damage, Ultimo Press Annika Norlin, Colony, (translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson), Scribe GUESTS Peter Polites, Western Sydney writer whose books include the novels Down the Hume and The Pillars, and the memoir-fiction hybrid, God Forgets About the Poor Stephanie Smee is a translator who works from French into English and whose translations include Hannelore Cayre’s The Godmother, Helene Gaudy’s A World with No Shore and Marie-Helene La Fon’s The Son’s Story OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun; AmericanaDiana Reid, Love and Virtue; Seeing Other PeopleFiona McGregor, Chemical Palace; IrisJames Parker, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Ann Marie Debettencor, Simon Branthwaite Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown…

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Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery 54:03

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Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a charismatic mystery; 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s We Do Not Part explores massacres on Jeju Island during (and after) the Korean War, stories actively repressed by both the South Korean and American governments; and Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore takes us to a fictional island between Tasmania and Antarctica, inhabited only by a man and his three children. BOOKS Colum McCann, Twist, Bloomsbury Han Kang, We Do Not Part (translated from Korean by e. yaewon & Page Aniyah Morris), Hamish Hamilton Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore, Penguin Random House GUESTS Beejay Silcox, critic, essayist and regular onstage interviewer of writers. Until last week – Director of the Canberra Writers Festival Bernadette Brennan, literary scholar and judge, whose books include literary biographies of Australian Helen Garner and Gillian Mears OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Susannah Clarke, Piranesi Sarah Manguso, Liars Alba de Céspedes, No Turning Back CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, John Jacobs Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown…

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Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests? 53:46

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An examination of family dynamics through three novels...Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons reflects on unspoken stories and familial divides; The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr, set in 1970s Ireland, tells the story of a family that takes in a child washed ashore, and Robert Lukins’ Somebody Down There Likes Me depicts an uber-rich family who gather together as their wealth and corruption begin to unravel. BOOKS Adam Haslett, Mothers and Sons, Hamish Hamilton Robert Lukins, Somebody Down There Likes Me, Allen & Unwin Garrett Carr, The Boy from the Sea, Picador GUESTS Claire Mabey, founder of NZ’s Verb Wellington literary organisation and writers’ festival; books editor at The Spinoff ; writer whose middle-grade children’s book The Raven's Eye Runaways was published last year. And, here's a link to the NZ book awards Claire mentions: https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/ ) Jonty Claypole, CEO Red Room Poetry ; co-host of podcast The Secret Life of Books ; author, Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDPercival Everett, JamesCharles Dickens, David CopperfieldBarbara Kingsolver, Demon CopperheadSamantha Harvey, OrbitalRobert Lukins, The Everlasting Sunday; LovelandF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyHerman Melville, Moby DickShakespeare, HamletEvelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedAudrey Magee, The ColonyPaul Murray, The Bee StingPaul Lynch, Prophet SongColm Toibin, worksNiall Williams, Time of the ChildFiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks DownJames Baldwin, Giovanni's RoomJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceMarilynne Robinson, GileadSusannah Clarke, PiranesiDamien Wilkins, DeliriousHarriet Baker, Rural Hours CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: John Jacobs, Ann Marie Debettencor Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown…

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Alaska, folktales, mothers and daughters 54:06

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Alaska, folktales and mothers and daughters in Eowyn Ivey's Black Woods Blue Sky. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Anne Tyler is back with Three Days in June, another novel about mothers and daughters; and Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, a critique of social media and contemporary life. BOOKS Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky, Tinder Press Anne Tyler, Three Days in June, Chatto & Windus Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection (translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes), Text GUESTS Alice Pung, novelist, memoirist and editor. Her books include Unpolished Gem, Laurinda and One Hundred Days Dylin Hardcastle, novelist, artist and screenwriter, currently completing their PhD. Their novels include Below Deck and A Language of Limbs OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDEowyn Ivey, The Snow ChildJohn Marsden, worksAnne Tyler, worksJazz Money, Mark the DawnDavid Owen Kelly, Host CityKirsty Jagger, RoseghettoWeike Wang, Joan is Okay CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, John Jacobs, Tegan Nicholls Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown…

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A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America 57:06

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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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Sweden, France, New Zealand: books from around the world 54:06

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Cassie and Kate read Marie-Hélène Lafon’s The Son’s Story, a family story that spans the twentieth-century, full of melancholy beauty and secrets. Crime writer Hayley Scrivenor reads Geoff Parkes’ When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, a story of small towns, envy and threat in New Zealand; and documentary maker Johan Gabrielsson reads Swedish bestseller The Group, by Sigge Eklund, in which art, sun, wealth and beautiful people meet and mingle in Madrid. BOOKS Marie-Hélène Lafon, The Son’s Story (translated from the French by Stephanie Smee), MLP Geoff Parkes, When the Deep Dark Bush Swallows You Whole, Penguin Random House Sigge Eklund, The Group (translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles), Ithaka Press GUESTS Hayley Scrivenor, crime writer whose books are Dirt Town and – her latest – Girl Falling Johan Gabrielsson, documentary maker: longtime Australian resident, he was born in Sweden OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Mary McCarthy, The Group Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Cold Truth Sara Foster, When She Was Gone Samantha Byres, Dead Ends James Bridle, Ways of Being Slavoj Zizek, Too Late To Awaken CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Roi Huberman, Harvey O'Sullivan Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown…

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A medical crisis brings one man close to love, art, and beauty 54:06

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Kate and Cassie are back for 2025! In this episode, a discussion of Panic by Catherine Jinks, about a young woman looking for a fresh start after posting a drunken rant that went horrifically viral. Novelist George Haddad, and Professor Sue Turnbull, who specialises in crime drama and fiction, are also along, to take a look at new novels by Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran and American author Garth Greenwell. BOOKS Catherine Jinks, Panic, Text Garth Greenwell, Small Rain, Picador Shankari Chandran, Unfinished Business, Ultimo Press GUESTS George Haddad, novelist, artist and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney. His novel Losing Face was published in 2022 Sue Turnbull, Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong, who specialises in crime drama and fiction. She is also chief crime fiction reviewer for The Age and SMH OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDKaliane Bradley, The Ministry of TimeAlice Winn, In MemoriamRichard J. Evans, Hitler's PeopleGeorge Eliot, MiddlemarchCaroline Darian, I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning our family trauma of Chemical Submission into a collective fightCurtis Sittenfeld, Show Don't Tell; Romantic Comedy; EligibleGarth Greenwell, CleannessShankari Chandran, Chai Time at Cinnamon GardensKatherine Brabon, Body FriendBen Watt, Patient Alexandros Papadiamantis, The MurderessMichelle de Kretser, Theory and PracticeRonni Salt, Gunnawah Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Cold Truth; Dark ModeKatherena Vermette, The Stranger family trilogy CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Tegan Nicholls, Harvey O'Sullivan Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown…

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Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation! 54:06

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Reading Percival Everett's James, Dylin Hardcastle's Language of Limbs and James McBride's The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store Cassie and literary interviewer Michaela Kalowski discussed Percival Everett's James in a conversation first broadcast on 15 March 2024 Kate and Jonathan Green reviewed Dylin Hardcastle's Language of Limbs on 19 July 2024 And James McBride spoke to Kate about The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store for Radio National's 2024 Big Weekend of Books…