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Cassie McCullough

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The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And as if it wasn't enough, the Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stewart, author of Shuggie Bain.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Kate, what can you tell us?

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

That will be a knockout.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

That is something to look forward to this evening if you're listening on Friday.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And you can find it online if you're listening on Monday night.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

That will be great.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

But look, I'm just looking at the program and there is one high wire act which I think is going to be fascinating because Andy Ford, Andrew Ford from the music show, is taking on not one but two of the world's great writers of the time and that is David Mitchell as well as Andrew O'Hagan and they're talking about music and literature.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

David Mitchell, of course, known for everything, the bone clocks, what are the ones of his...

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And then Andrew O'Hagan, that book that I know you loved, Kate, The Mayflies.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Oh, Mayflies.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Yeah, and it was partly based on Andrew O'Hagan's experience of life in the 80s, going to see some of the bands of the age as a young Scottish man.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

I was really excited about this one.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

I'm dying for that one.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Yes, I once made the mistake when I was interviewing Andrew Ford himself about a book that he had written.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And I quoted that thing that Frank Zappa had said that writing about music was like dancing about architecture.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And Andrew just said, oh, that's apocryphal.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

He never said that.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

And that's precisely why we invited Andrew Ford to have that conversation with those two writers.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Oh, what a brain.

The Bookshelf
How to read like an Australian writer

Okay, well, that's some seriously good stuff.