Steve Toltz
speaker
222 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
Steve Toltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're tapping into a sense of humanity that surely an algorithm cannot understand.
It's fine.
You know, our narrator, Russell, in this novel, he gets a gig for a while as a school guidance counsellor, which is pretty funny.
He's talking to all these kids who are
pretty zombified from all the time on their phones, saying to them, oh, don't aspire to that.
You're not going to have any future.
You know, there's no jobs for you kids.
I mean, what would you be telling a young Steve Toltz now?
Would you be saying, yep, stick with the novel writing or maybe go for something else?
Is writing fun for you, Steve?
Steve Toltz, your book is A Rising of the Lights.
It's published by Penguin Books.
It's been great to chat again today.
On ABC Radio National, this is the book show.
And Ian Kemmish is here now.
He's a former Australian diplomat and now a novelist.
And he's lent into his diplomatic background, particularly his memories of war in Yugoslavia in the 90s, for his first work of fiction.
It's called Two Islands.
Hi, Ian.
So as a diplomat, Ian, where have you worked?
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