Best Tobias Carroll Podcasts (2024)

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Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis in conversation 31:47

3d ago31:47

31:47

In today’s episode, a conversation with Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis, authors of Girt By Sea: Re-Imagining Australia’s Security. Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oceans and regions that surround it to the distant horizons of E…

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Episode 230: Ai Jiang 1:53:55

5d ago1:53:55

1:53:55

Savor a seafood pancake with the award-winning writer Ai Jiang as we discuss why being nominated for multiple awards may actually have made her Imposter Syndrome worse, what the Odyssey workshop taught her which helped her finish her first novel (and whether that book might be too ambitious a debut), the novels which made her want to be a writer, w…

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Judith Bishop in conversation 26:03

14d ago26:03

26:03

In this episode, a recording taken from the launch of Judith Bishop’s Circadia. These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.…

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AIR 068 / Lafawndah 44:25

10d ago44:25

44:25

Episode 68 welcomes singer, songwriter, and producer Yasmine Dubois, who has recently welcome a moniker change from @Lafawndah to Kukii. The moniker evolution is just one example of Yasmine’s connection to the flux and flow of creativity, an artist whose musical vision is constantly in motion. Despite her 2019 album Ancestor Boy being a critical sm…

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Episode 229: Sally Wiener Grotta 1:47:52

12d ago1:47:52

1:47:52

Gab over garlic bread with Sally Wiener Grotta as we discuss when we first met (and can't quite figure out whether it was a third or a quarter of a century ago), how her first storytelling impulse began because she'd fall asleep while being read stories as a child, the importance of the question "what if?," why she often finds horror difficult to r…

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"Irish Wish" (with Mairead Case) 39:13

12d ago39:13

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For episode 11 of Framed & Bound, Mairead Case (Tiny, See You in the Morning) joins host Tobias Carroll to discuss Irish Wish, a movie in which an editor played by Lindsay Lohan creates a parallel universe where she’s engaged to the rakish author whose book she made a bestseller. The essay Mairead mentioned at episode's end can be found here. Discu…

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Stuart Kells in conversation 31:49

21d ago31:49

31:49

In this episode, a conversation with Stuart Kells, author of the new book, Alice(TM). This book is the extraordinary story of Alice Corporation, a company created to reimagine financial markets, that brings together an unlikely cast of characters: renowned author Kate Jennings, international banking insider Ian Shepherd, Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling,…

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Episode 228: Elwin Cotman 1:14:56

23d ago1:14:56

1:14:56

Bite into a burrito with writer Elwin Cotman as we discuss why forcing science fictional elements into non-science fictional stories can weaken them, the interdimensional cross-genre story cycle he hopes to write someday about a wrestling family, the way the novella is his natural length, why he loves Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age stories, how to…

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Anna Downes in conversation 35:46

27d ago35:46

35:46

In this episode, a conversation with Anna Downes, author of the crime novels The Safe Place, The Shadow House, and now, Red River Road. In this new book, set on the Coral Coast of Western Australia, solo traveller Katy is on a mission to find her free-spirited sister, Phoebe, who disappeared along the same route a year ago. But as she drives her ca…

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Manisha Anjali in conversation 24:19

1M ago24:19

24:19

In this episode, a conversation with Manisha Anjali, a writer, artist, and teacher, and author of 'Naag Mountain'. This book is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia. Anjali brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of…

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Ouyang Yu in conversation 25:03

1M ago25:03

25:03

In this episode, a conversation with Ouyang Yu, author, translator, academic, and renowned poet. Ouyang Yu’s first collection of stories in English, The White Cockatoo Flowers, is both assured and tender and at times surprisingly funny. It includes stories set in China and Australia that revel in the truth and candour of lived experience and the jo…

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Episode 227: Alex Jennings 1:34:14

1M ago1:34:14

1:34:14

Dig into duck with Alex Jennings as we discuss his dream which commanded him to move to New Orleans (plus his brother's dream which supported that decision), how writing his debut novel transformed him into the kind of person he needed to be in order to write his debut novel, how Octavia Butler invited him into the field, which artist he wishes wou…

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Winnie Dunn in conversation 27:14

2M ago27:14

27:14

In this episode, a conversation with Winnie Dunn – a Tongan-Australian writer, editor, the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement, and now author of the novel Dirt Poor Islanders. Dunn’s book is a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navigated when growing up between two cultures and the importance of unders…

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AIR 067 / Speedy J 55:00

2M ago55:00

55:00

Episode 67 invites a producer, DJ, and live performer who is probably my most requested guest…. I’m happy to welcome @JochemPaap, also known as Speedy J.With a string of successful releases on Warp and Plus 8 throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Speedy J’s name became synonymous with a special kind of driving, peak-time techno that helped define the…

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Episode 226: Tobias Carroll 1:20:51

2M ago1:20:51

1:20:51

Polish off paneer biryani with Tobias Carroll as we discuss which punk rock music made him a fan, why his heart belongs to novella-length works rather than massive epics, the artistic motivation for sometimes not giving readers what they've been taught to expect, the reason Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil was meaningful to him (and why he believes i…

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"The Ninth Gate" (with Kurt Baumeister) 1:05:49

2M ago1:05:49

1:05:49

For the tenth episode of Framed & Bound, host Tobias Carroll teams up with Kurt Baumeister — author of Pax Americana and Twilight of the Gods — to discuss the 1999 film The Ninth Gate. This was co-written and directed by Roman Polanski, and adapts Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel The Club Dumas. In The Ninth Gate, an expert in rare books is sent in sea…

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Amanda Hampson in conversation 24:34

2M ago24:34

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In today’s episode, a conversation with Amanda Hampson, author of the runaway crime novel success, The Tea Ladies. Hampson has returned with a sequel, The Cryptic Clue. It’s set in Zig Zag Lane, in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping a…

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Steven Carroll in conversation 20:08

2M ago20:08

20:08

In this episode, a conversation with award-winning writer Steven Carroll, author of Death of a Foreign Gentleman, the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Set in Cambridge in 1947, the book is a playful, poignant and absorbing novel, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock, whi…

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Episode 225: Lesley Conner 1:36:38

2M ago1:36:38

1:36:38

Chow down on cryptid pizza with writer/editor Lesley Conner as we discuss why horror is where she feels the most comfortable as a writer, how her role at Apex magazine grew from Social Media Manager to Chief Editor, her "Price is Right" method of filling out an issue's word count, why she hardly ever reads cover letters, the trends she's seen in th…

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The Readings Kids Podcast: Tobias Madden in conversation 35:38

2M ago35:38

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A new instalment of the Readings Kids Podcast. This episode features some of the members of the Readings Teen Advisory Board engaging in conversation with Tobias Madden, author of the books Anything But Fine and Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell. Madden’s third YA novel, Wrong Answers Only, was recently published in Australia.…

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Episode 224: Dan Parent 1:57:20

3M ago1:57:20

1:57:20

Devour a Georgian dinner with Dan Parent as we discuss why we both loved the legendary Ramona Fradon, how a Charlton Comics pamphlet gave him the tools to take his art more seriously, what he learned working at the start of his career with the great Dan DeCarlo, the character fans demand he draw the most during his convention appearances, the Archi…

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Victoria Vanstone in conversation 24:19

3M ago24:19

24:19

In this episode, a conversation with Victoria Vanstone, author of the new memoir, A Thousand Wasted Sundays. The book follows her journey from casual teen drinking to black-outs, boozed-up play dates to learning to live without her reliable social crutch. But it’s not a tale of misery and trauma, it’s the relatable story of a very normal woman with…

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AIR 066 / Leon Vynehall 49:13

2M ago49:13

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This month’s episode welcomes British producer Leon @Vynehall. After a start DJing around the UK, Leon’s focus shifted to production as he released his debut EP Music for the Uninvited, and a widely acclaimed first album on Ninja Tune called Nothing in Still. Inspired by his grandparents emigration from the UK to New York, Nothing is Still also inc…

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Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo in conversation 37:17

3M ago37:17

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In this episode, a conversation with author Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo, recorded live at the launch of her memoir, My Father’s Shadow. Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a prominent antiwar activist, brilliant political organiser and covert member of the Communist Party. She adopted his beliefs from an early age, becoming a supporter of the Soviet …

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The Comics Question: Notable Books of 2023 Part Two 22:32

3M ago22:32

22:32

An instalment of The Comics Question, a series where Bernard Caleo and I discuss comics, graphic novels, and all manner of illustrated books, zines, and other associated productions. In this episode, Bernard Caleo was joined by Readings bookseller Nick Curnow to give a round-up of some of the most intriguing, beautiful, and thought-provoking comics…

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Episode 223: Arthur Suydam 1:59:09

3M ago1:59:09

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Sup on scallops with Arthur Suydam as we discuss the way a lengthy hospital stay resulted in him falling in love with comics, what Joe Orlando said to convince him to start his comics career at DC instead of Warren, the permission he was granted upon seeing the ghastly artwork of Graham Ingels, what he learned from dealing with cadavers during his …

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Marina Kamenev in conversation 29:29

3M ago29:29

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In this episode, a conversation with journalist and author Marina Kamenev, author of Kin: Family in the 21st Century. While the nuclear family still exists, many more types of kinship surround us. Kin is an investigation into what influences us to have children and the new ways that have made parenthood possible. It delves into the experiences of c…

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"Possession" (with Arianna Reiche) 51:14

3M ago51:14

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On this episode, Tobias Carroll and Arianna Reiche discuss the 2002 film adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s Possession. Arianna Reiche is the author of the acclaimed novel At the End of Every Day, available wherever books are sold. You can read her short story “Potassium” here, too! Possession is about a pair of academics researching the possible connectio…

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