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But, Kate, of course, this time last week we were on stage with our guests for the Bookshelf Live from the Sydney Writers' Festival.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
We had Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, Tayari Jones, who wrote An American Marriage, and Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
Something quite shocking happened with Junot Diaz.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
It was at another session.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
You happened to be there in the audience with...
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What happened?
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How did it unfold?
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Yeah, well, a sad event for everyone involved and a lot's been said, a lot more will be said and I guess we'll follow that.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
The Hub on Books with Claire Nicholls touched on that this week as well.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
But Kate, that aside, the festival was a great success, hundreds of events.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
What was the highlight for you?
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It's like the biggest cryptic crossword of all time to have pulled that off.
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What about you though, Cassie?
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Well, people outside Sydney may not know that I also do a daily show on ABC Radio Sydney.
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On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
And so I interviewed a number of the guests in the course of that program during the week.
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Jeff Goodell, who wrote a book called The Water Will Come, Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World, which was terrifying, but he was fantastic.
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Also, Angela Saini, who's written a book called Inferior, The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It, basically pointing out some very obvious mistakes that science has made over the last couple of hundred years.
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But I think the one that I loved the most, one that I'd like to recommend to bookshelf listeners is...
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is one called Janesville, an American story.
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Now, this is by Amy Goldstein, who is a Washington Post reporter.