Geordie Williamson

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The Bookshelf · Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson · 23 Mar 2018 podcast

On board the Monterey are 500 brides from Australia and New Zealand with 250 babies heading for a chewing gum future.

Yes.

Have you just received it?

I just travel in a great cloud of literary ignorance.

And it's funny, when I started out, I really felt like I had a handle on Australian literature, past and present, European literature and translation, Anglosphere literature, particularly, you know, 20th century UK and US.

And now I just wander down the street in a daze, just realising I'd missed so many important people and I'm continually discovering new voices.

And that's the thing.

They're just...

Publication is now such a big business.

There are so many new titles flying onto the shelves that it's sometimes easy to miss even the most significant new voices.

Well, at the moment, what I'm doing is a bit of prep work for ahead of Sydney Writers Festival.

And in particular, I'm looking at two books written by Australians that they will be appearing at the festival that are both quite strange and slightly askew to the usual run of books that I review.

They're not strictly literary in inverted commas.

And the first of those is by an activist and author named Alexis Wright, who is a one-year woman from Gulf of Carpentaria, based down south most of the time these days, but keeps one foot in home country, basically.

And she said to me once years ago that her job was, when she went home, is to do the kind of the transcribing work for those people who couldn't write for themselves.

So it was a question of basic literacy.

I mean, she was writing letters to various government agencies and that sort of thing.

But there was also a larger project where she sought through her work as an author to tell the story of many First Nations people who didn't necessarily have a voice themselves.

She's very good at what she's done.

She's been hugely well regarded by Australia's literary community.

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