Best Tablo Publishing Podcasts (2024)

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Steve Toltz on writing fear, Here Goes Nothing, and nailing why we do what we do 50:00

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Steve Toltz is the author of A Fraction of the Whole, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award and Quicksand, which won the Russell Prize for Humour. Booklist called A Fraction of the Whole ‘a deliriously philosophical novel . . . with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning …

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Claire Messud on A Dream Life, self-deception and the pursuit of truth 1:05:08

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Claire Messud is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestselling books The Emperor’s Children, The Woman Upstairs and The Burning Girl, as well as a book of essays, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. She has received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy …

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Hannah Kent on the freedom and delight in writing Devotion, not being shackled to history and her writing life 57:30

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Australian novelist Hannah Kent’s first novel Burial Rites, about the last woman executed in Iceland, was a bestseller internationally and translated into 30 languages. It won a mountain of awards including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award and is being adapted for film. Her second novel Th…

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Charlotte Wood on taking out the lies, The Luminous Solution and following the heat 1:07:28

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Charlotte Wood is one of Australia’s finest, most original writers. She is the author of six novels; a collection of interviews called The Writers’ Room; Love & Hunger; and The Luminous Solution, about creativity and resilience. Charlotte’s most recent novel The Weekend is funny, tender and often uncomfortable, and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Boo…

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Sinéad Gleeson on the power of your own story 1:09:39

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Sinéad Gleeson is a writer and editor, based in Dublin. Her book of personal essays Constellations: Reflections from Life, won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It explores an array of subjects from Sinéad’s experience with illness, to friendship, grief, falling in love, mot…

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Anna Gerber on playful storytelling, channeling Sylvia Beach and bringing creatives together 1:05:21

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Anna Gerber is an award-winning Creative Director, working with storytelling, design and technology. For over 20 years, she’s worked with global teams and companies like Google, Penguin, Mercedes and WeTransfer. Anna co-founded Visual Editions, a publishing house with refreshingly innovative book design and ideas. It won many awards and each book t…

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Katie Kitamura on her new novel Intimacies, building dread and unconventional endings 1:00:25

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Katie Kitamura’s writing is taut, morally complex, beguiling, and gets under your skin. Garth Greenwell described her as ‘among the most brilliant and profound writers at work today’ and as Evie Wyld said she’s ‘one of the best living writers I’ve read, and she gives the dead ones a run for their money'. Katie has written for publications like the …

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Doireann Ní Ghríofa on A Ghost in the Throat and the mystery of writing and life 1:09:25

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Doireann Ní Ghríofa has published in both Irish and English and has written six acclaimed collections of poetry. Her most recent, To Star the Dark was described by The Irish Independent as ‘playful, serious, joyful, and moving’. Her book of prose called A Ghost in the Throat received Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and had phenomenal revi…

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Louise Adler on the extraordinary story of her parents, a life in publishing and what she learnt along the way 56:54

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Louise Adler is one of the most significant figures in Australian publishing. Born in Melbourne, Louise was educated locally and studied in Israel at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, then in Britain at the University of Reading, and in America at Columbia University. She taught literature at Columbia for ten years and also taught at t…

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Andrew Solomon on a lifetime writing about humanity, surviving the Pacific Ocean and the power of listening 1:05:32

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Andrew Solomon’s work has had a major impact across the world. His books have made concrete changes for the better, fostering empathy and understanding in everyone who reads them. Andrew writes on politics, culture and psychology and is an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He’s a Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psy…

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Evie Wyld on the landscapes of her life, not tying things up neatly, trusting the subconscious, and our remaining monsters. 57:32

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Since Evie Wyld was first published, her writing has been celebrated for its fine observations, and way of pinning down emotional nuance. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award and Evie was listed as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Her second novel, All the Birds…

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Jhumpa Lahiri on paring back, building bridges and her new book Whereabouts 1:00:44

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Since Interpreter of Maladies was published in 1999, Jhumpa Lahiri has written three works of fiction in English, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and the Booker shortlisted, The Lowland. She has also written a work of nonfiction, In Other Words, which was the first book she wrote in Italian, translated into English by Ann Goldstein. In addition J…

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Nikki Gemmell on writing with audacity, her new poetic thriller and surviving financially as a writer 1:00:13

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Nikki Gemmell is one of Australia’s great writers. Since Les Murray printed Nikki’s first short story in Quadrant Magazine, she’s written thirteen novels. One of them, was the erotic blockbuster The Bride Stripped Bare which was published anonymously back in 2003. It was described as a ‘raw and unflinching’ look at sexuality – and it’s that raw and…

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Charles Yu on writers' rooms and Westworld, his National Book Award-winning novel Interior Chinatown and a love of short stories 57:01

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Charles Yu writes playful and inventive novels and short stories, often with a kind of sly irreverence. There’s warmth and wisdom at their heart, he’s very funny. Charles has written two collection of stories, Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You and the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and his latest Interior C…

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Andy Griffiths on the wild ride from punk band to rockstar children's author 1:21:02

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Andy Griffiths is one of the most loved authors in Australia. Andy and his partner in crime illustrator Terry Denton have collaborated on more than 33 bestselling books including the Treehouse series, all of which have sold over 10 million copies – which must make them some of bestselling Australian authors of all time. They’ve been published in ov…

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Melissa Harrison on nature writing, taking risks, advice for new writers and learning birdsongs 57:00

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Melissa Harrison is an award-winning novelist, nature writer and podcaster. Melissa’s podcast The Stubborn Light of Things has the same title as her book that was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. In the book it feels like she’s taking us by her side as she walks through the greens of London and the English countryside, sharing warm a…

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Janine di Giovanni on reporting war, love, responsibility and her calling to write 50:45

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Janine di Giovanni is an author of various award-winning books and one of the world’s great foreign correspondents. She has had a thirty year career in war zones, reporting on conflicts from the first Palestinian intifadato the siege of Sarajevo, the Rwandan genocide and many other wars across the world. She was a long-time Senior Foreign Correspon…

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Jenny Hewson on her role as a literary agent, looking for a distinctive voice and how rejection is often part of the process 50:06

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Jenny Hewson is a literary agent based in London. She worked for 13 years as an agent at one of England’s best agencies, Rogers Coleridge and White or RCW as it’s known, representing authors across fiction and non-fiction. A year ago she joined the prestigious Lutyens & Rubinstein agency, bringing her list of authors with her, including Sarah Perry…

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Lang Leav on poetry as emotion, September Love and finding her tribe. 41:36

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Lang Leav is a poet and novelist whose work has a rare and powerful way of connecting with readers. Lang was born in a refugee camp, grew up in Sydney’s Cabramatta and now lives in New Zealand. She has received various accolades including a Churchill fellowship and a Goodreads Readers’ Choice Award. Her first book, 'Love & Misadventure' was self-pu…

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James Rebanks on his life’s work, the surprising path to bestselling writer, an urgency to rethink modern farming and how we can change the world. 56:51

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James is an old-fashioned farmer based in England’s The Lake District where his family have lived and worked for over 600 years. He’s the author of the bestselling memoir The Shephard’s Life which won the Lake District book of the year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes and translated into sixteen languages. It speaks of his li…

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Penny Hueston on the art of translation, her life in publishing and making a book sing. 51:44

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Penny Hueston is the co-owner with Michael Heyward of Text Publishing, one of Australia’s great independent houses. Text publishes some of the world’s most loved writers including Helen Garner, Graeme Simsion, Elena Ferrante and J.M. Coetzee. They’ve done a lot for Australian writing in general, championing books internationally and their Text Clas…

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Jane Harper on becoming a bestselling novelist, how to get readers hooked and the stories behind her novels and new book The Survivors. 52:47

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Jane Harper is one of the rare authors whose books are so successful that they’ve carved out a whole new genre – it’s called Outback or Rural Noir, and it has taken the world by storm. Jane is the author of international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man and the new book that’s recently come out called The Survivors which sold an e…

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Emily St John Mandel on the writing life, imagining a flu pandemic in Station Eleven vs the reality, The Glass Hotel and finding moral grey areas 56:27

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Emily St John Mandel grew up in Canada and now lives in New York. She has written various prize-winning books including The Singer’s Gun that won the 2014 Prix Mystère de la Critique in France and Station Eleven, which one reviewer likened to ‘Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion’. It’s a story that moves between the night a particular strain…

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Alison Bell on writing and acting for TV, the joys of collaborating, her Netflix hit ‘The Letdown’ and what’s coming next 52:37

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Alison Bell is the co-creator, co-writer, producer and star of the award-winning ABC and Netflix series 'The Letdown'. It explores the early years of motherhood in a way that’s honest and moving as well as very funny - there’s the mothers’ group, the sleep training, the non-existent sex life and much more. Like the best writing, there’s something u…

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Inua Ellams on poetry as freedom, theatre for the human spirit, the oral storytelling tradition in Nigeria and themes of immigration, displacement and destiny 51:44

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Inua Ellams is many things – he’s a poet, playwright, a creator of community, graphic artist and designer. He’s moved, entertained and challenged audiences around the world, on stages from Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Sydney Opera House to the Glastonbury Festival. Inua is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories, a Fellow of the Royal Society of …

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Sylvia Whitman on running Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, the famous history, how books get you through testing times and the joys of matchmaking people and books. 59:28

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Featuring: the beauty and mysticism of Paris, witnessing the fire at Notre Dame, what Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier did for France and publishing, the illustrious writers who’ve been associated with the shop, Sylvia's father George Whitman, taking in strangers and the tumbleweed tradition, the man who stayed seven years in the rare books room, …

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Daniel Morden on why ancient myths are still relevant today, 30 years as a traditional storyteller and the sleeping giants beneath Wales 43:55

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Featuring: when stories shapeshift, separation of the beloved, the Cassandra myth in #metoo, performance as a test of character and ecstatic poetry.Daniel Morden is one of the world’s most popular tellers of traditional stories. He’s been telling stories to adults and children for over thirty years, in venues great and small from palaces to prisons…

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Pip Williams on The Dictionary of Lost Words, a room of one’s own and searching for a life worth living 1:00:08

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Featuring: the history of language, living in Italy, getting published for the first time, the role of mentors, and the joy of writing 'The Dictionary of Lost Words'. Pip Williams was born in the UK, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She has written the memoir 'One Italian Summer' and 'The Dictionary of Lost Words' a novel th…

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Catherine Milne on the secret life of publishing, hunting out books that matter and going from reading the slush pile to head of fiction at Harper Collins. 53:37

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Featuring: novels that make her cry, how to get through acquisitions, the joyous dance of editing and publishing books that have the rare combination of being both commercial and literary.Catherine has worked in publishing for many years, including with Penguin Books, Pan Macmillan, Allen & Unwin, and since 2012, with HarperCollins, where she is He…

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Ali Cobby Eckermann on grief, finding family, solace in the desert and afternoon tea with Gloria Steinem 56:54

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Featuring: the life-changing literary award, healing through mentoring, standing inside your story, where 'Ruby Moonlight' came from, Australia’s first Aboriginal writers’ retreat and poetry readings.Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around the world. Her poetry collections in…

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Anna Funder on the magic curtain of language, her life in writing, 'Stasiland' thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell and what she’s working on now. 52:48

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Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers. Her multi-award winning novel All That I Am wasan homage to four extraordinary German anti-Hitler activists in exile in London in the 1930s. It won the Miles Franklin Prize, spent over one and a half years on the bestseller list, and is being made into a feature film. Anna’s S…

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Leanne Shapton on where it all began, jealousy and ghosts, living in New York as a writer and artist, and the weirdest book so far. 54:02

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Leanne is an extraordinary artist and writer. She is the author of 'Was She Pretty' which looks at jealousy and how we fixate on our partner’s exes; 'Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry' which tells the demise of a relationship in a way no one else woul…

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Julia Baird on savouring life, growing in the dark and finding solace in the natural world. 38:51

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Featuring the bestselling Phosphorescence, forest therapy and moonbows, Rachel Carson on wonder, the rafts that keep you afloat, love of cuttlefish and a mother’s grace.By Jemma Birrell

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Michael Christie on going from pro-skater to award-winning writer 40:05

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http://www.michaelchristie.netBy Jemma Birrell, Michael Christie

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Ceridwen Dovey on hustling to survive, exploring outer space and the compulsion of writing. 43:50

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Featuring the invisible work of mothering, the dark and light of creativity, unhooking reality, Kangaroo Island post-fires, audio firsts, experimentation and expressing your inner weird.As well as writing prize-winning fiction, Ceridwen Dovey writes thought-provoking essays and profiles which have appeared in publications like Wired and The New Yor…

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Luke Davies on going from starving poet to one of the most in-demand scriptwriters in Hollywood 43:02

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Featuring filming Catch 22 in Italy, the allure of Paris, how Lion was career-changing, a dinner with Philip Seymour Hoffman, how not to be pigeonholed and working with Woody Harrelson on The Most Dangerous Man in America.Luke Davies, poet, novelist and screenwriter, adapted his semi-autobiographical novel Candy for the screen in 2006. His other no…

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