Compulsive Reader talks
By Magdalena Ball
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Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.
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Mandy Sayer on No Dancing in the Lift
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Anne Casey on Seang (Hungering)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Zach Taylor on ROCKSTAR: Echoes
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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David Adès on A Blink of Time's Eye
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Michael Farrell on The Victoria Principle
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Judith Nangala Crispín on The Dingo’s Noctuary
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Kavita Ivy Nandan on Through the Trapdoor
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Angela Costi on The Heart of the Advocate
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Bob Rich on The Hole in Your Life
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Katia Ariel on Ferryman
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt on Cold Truth
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May 22, 2025 |
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Paris Rosemont on Barefoot Poetess
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May 01, 2025 |
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Terri-ann White on Finding Theodore and Brina
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Exploring the Poetic Journey of Phillis Levin: An Anthology of Rain
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Andrea Goldsmith on The Buried Life
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Damen O'Brien on Walking the Boundary
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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PS Cottier and NG Hartland on The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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John Kinsella on Beam of Light
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Girls on Key 10th Anniversary Zoom
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Sarah Temporal on Tight Bindings
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Patti Miller on the newly revised version of Writing True Stories
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Julia Levitina on The girl From Moscow
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Omar Musa on The Fullness
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May 13, 2024 |
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Kent MacCarter on Fat Chance
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Robbie Coburn on Ghost Poetry
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Marina Kamenev on Kin
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Eugen Bacon on Serengotti
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Valerie Werder on Thieves
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Beatriz Copello on No Salami Fairy Bread
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Samuel Lucas Allen on CUT
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Esther Ottaway on She Doesn't Seem Autistic
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Richard James Allen on Text Messages from the Universe
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Alisa Bryce on Grounded
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Alan Fyfe on T
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May 31, 2023 |
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt on Dark Mode
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Oisín Breen on Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín & Other Poems
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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A conversation with Meera Atkinson
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Kateryna Kazimirova on Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Hazel Smith on Ecliptical
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Sara Kidd on The Vegan Cake Bible
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Bastian Fox Phelan on How to Be Between
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Beth Spencer on The Age of Fibs
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Michelle Cahill on Daisy & Woolf
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Talking poetry with Yilinhi/Lorna Munro
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Nick Courtright on The Proofs, the Figures: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems.
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Jessica Au on Cold Enough For Snow
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Charles Freyberg on The Crumbling Mansion
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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KA Rees on Come the Bones
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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James Bradley | Author of Clade - on climate fiction
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Beth Spencer in conversation with Kit Kelen
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Lillian Avedian on Journey to Tatev
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Adam Aitken on One Hundred Letters Home
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Michael J Leach on Chronicity
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May 23, 2021 |
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Emily Maguire on Love Objects
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Alison Treat interviews Leslie K Barry about Newark Minutemen
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Chris Mansell on Foxline
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Zacchary Bird on Vegan Junk Food
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Paul Rabinowitz on The Clay Urn
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Angus Gaunt on Black Rabbit
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Denise O'Hagan on The Beating Heart
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Lee Kofman on Imperfect
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Nicola Redhouse on Unlike the Heart
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May 21, 2020 |
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Maria Tumarkin on Axiomatic
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May 08, 2020 |
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Sophie Hardcastle on Below Deck
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Gillian Swain book launch My skin its own sky
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Virtual launch of Morgan Bell's Idiomatic, for the people
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Jim Reese on Bone Chalk
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Roslyn McFarland on All the Lives We've Lived
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Jessica Mehta talks with novelist and poet Nina Murray
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Jenny Blackford on The Girl in the Mirror
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Interview with Sarah Myles
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Peter Valentine on World heritage Sites of Australia
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Eliana Gray on Eager to Break
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Interview with Richard James Allen
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Bram Presser on The Book of Dirt
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May 06, 2019 |
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Anne Casey on Where the Lost Things Go
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Ali Whitelock on And My Heart Crumples Like a Coke Can
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Steve Armstrong on Broken Ground
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Jill Jones on Brink
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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Kathryn Fry on Green Point Bearings
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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Holly Ringland on The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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May 18, 2018 |
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Tracy Sorensen on The Lucky Galah
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Jennifer Maiden launches her poetry book Appalachian Fall
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Interview with Jessica Townsend
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Gerry Orz talks about Lucky or Not Here I Come
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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Patti Miller on Writing True Stories
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Interview with Melinda Smith
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Jennifer Maiden on Play With Knives
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Feb 12, 2017 |
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Dr Joanna McMillan talks about Get Lean, Stay Lean
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Jan 08, 2017 |
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Interview with Michele Seminara
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Interview with Michelle Cahill on Letter to Pessoa
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Tim Elliott on Farewell to the Father
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Joel Deane on Year of the Wasp
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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Hazel Smith on Word Migrants
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Jane Caro talks about Plain-Speaking Jane
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Vivian Gornick reads from and talks about The Odd Woman and the City
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May 23, 2016 |
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Dimitrios Ikonomou reads from and chats about The Diary of Norman K
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May 18, 2016 |
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Rebecca Starford on Bad Behaviour
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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Mark Flanagan on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Infinite Winter
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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Christine Evans on Cloudless
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Martin Langford on his new book Ground
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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Jean Kent talks about The Hour of Silvered Mullet
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Sep 13, 2015 |
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Carolyn Martinez talks about Finding Love
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Aug 17, 2015 |
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Ali Cobby Eckermann on her book Inside my Mother
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Lucy Dougan on The Guardians
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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Beth Spencer on Vagabondage
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Jun 15, 2015 |
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Graham Stull on The Hydra
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Jun 08, 2015 |
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Ben Okri on The Age of Magic
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May 23, 2015 |
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Joan Schweighardt on The Accidental Art Thief
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May 17, 2015 |
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Philip Salom on Alterworld
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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Masterchef Julie Goodwin on 20/20 Meals
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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Jeri Kroll on Workshopping the Heart
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Oct 27, 2014 |
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Brooke Davis on Lost and Found
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Jul 29, 2014 |
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Andy Kissane on Radiance
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Jun 23, 2014 |
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Interview with Carmel MacDonald Grahame
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May 26, 2014 |
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Vanessa Berry on Ninety 9
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Feb 23, 2014 |
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Interview with Jaye Ford
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Oct 29, 2013 |
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Interview with Paul W Newman
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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Interview with Brian Castro
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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Don’t Let the Wind Catch You with Aaron Paul Lazar
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Aug 28, 2013 |
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The Bookman’s Tale with Charlie Lovett
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Jul 16, 2013 |
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Lisa Gorton on Hotel Hyperion
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Jul 04, 2013 |
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Bread of the Lost with Philomena Van Rijswijk
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Jun 06, 2013 |
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Bob Rich's Ascending Spiral
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May 06, 2013 |
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Fred Watson on Star Craving Mad
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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Interview with Kent MacCarter & Ali Lemer
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Feb 18, 2013 |
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Interview with Jennifer Maiden
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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ModPo's Amaris Cuchanski, Max McKenna & Anna Strong
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Interview with Jillian Schedneck
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Nov 06, 2012 |
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Interview with Lily Brett
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Oct 26, 2012 |
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Interview with Joanne Harris
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Oct 10, 2012 |
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Interview with Margaret Wertheim
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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Interview with Danny Iny
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Interview with Nigel Marsh
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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Interview with Anna Solding
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Jul 30, 2012 |
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Interview with Kate Fagan
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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Interview with Ian Gibbins
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May 28, 2012 |
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Interview with Stephen Scourfield
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Interview with Frank Delaney
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Interview with Amanda Curtin
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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Interview with Lesley Synge
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Dec 14, 2011 |
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Interview with Mike French
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Oct 21, 2011 |
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Interview with George Ivanoff
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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Interview with Jane Smiley
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Aug 26, 2011 |
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Interview with Mary E Martin
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Jul 19, 2011 |
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Interview with Chad Hautmann
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May 17, 2011 |
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Interview with Sue Collier
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May 02, 2011 |
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Interview with Terry Denton
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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Interview with Gail Jones
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Mar 21, 2011 |
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Interview with Carl Zimmer
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Interview with David Follett
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Feb 06, 2011 |
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Interview with Tim Flannery
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Dec 15, 2010 |
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Interview with Lyn Reeves
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Dec 13, 2010 |
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Interview with Meredith Whitford
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Interview with Craig Silvey
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Sep 28, 2010 |
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Interview with Ramona Koval
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Aug 30, 2010 |
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Interview with Bob Stahl
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Aug 11, 2010 |
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Interview with Justin D’Ath
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Jul 19, 2010 |
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Interview with Linda Ruth Brooks
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Jul 01, 2010 |
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Interview with Eric Maisel
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Jun 16, 2010 |
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Interview with Peter Bowerman
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Jun 10, 2010 |
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Interview with Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords
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Mar 04, 2010 |
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Interview with Felicity Plunkett
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Feb 16, 2010 |
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Interview with Margaret Hawkins
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Feb 01, 2010 |
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Interview with John Banville
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Interview with Matthew Riley
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Oct 25, 2009 |
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Interview with Sofie Laguna
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Interview with Andrew Thelander
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Interview with K J Fraser
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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Interview with Emily Ballou
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Aug 28, 2009 |
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Interview with Dale Beaumont
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Aug 04, 2009 |
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Interview with Danny Gillan
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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Interview with Sir Ken Robinson
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Jun 16, 2009 |
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Interview with Lorraine Mace
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May 27, 2009 |
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Interview with Gaynor McGrath
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May 21, 2009 |
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Interview with Marion Halligan
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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Interview with Paul Burman
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Apr 07, 2009 |
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Interview with Terry Denton
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Feb 16, 2009 |
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Interview with Bel Schenk
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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Interview with Geoff Nelder
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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Interview with Mark David Gerson
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Nov 06, 2008 |
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Joel Deane and Karen Knight: an hour of poetry
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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The View From Here
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Interview with Wendy James
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Aug 19, 2008 |
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Interview with Howard Waldman
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Interview with Aaron Paul Lazar
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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Interview with Will Chaffey
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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Interview with Nick Place
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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Interview with Marion Roberts
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Jun 10, 2008 |
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Interview with Julie Mars
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May 06, 2008 |
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Interview with Basil Eliades, author of 3rd i
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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Interview with Lorraine Mace, co-author of The ABC Checklist for New Writers
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Feb 11, 2008 |
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Interview with Roland Harvey
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Dec 11, 2007 |
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Interview with Emily Ballou, author of Aphelion
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Dec 04, 2007 |
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Interview with Graeme Kinross-Smith
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Nov 14, 2007 |
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Interview with Justin Lowe
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Interview with Helen Townsend, author of Above the Starry Frame
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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Ross Duncan on All Those Bright Crosses
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Aug 14, 2007 |