Read This

Read This is a show about the books we love and the stories behind them, hosted by Michael Williams. Every Thursday, you’ll hear insightful conversations with the smartest, funniest readers and writers we know and in-depth interviews with the best Australian and international authors talking about their lives and their work. You’ll never be left wondering what to read next.

Books
Society & Culture
51
Max Porter’s Freight Is Proportioned to His Groove
28 min
52
Why Michelle de Kretser Wants You to Read Shirl...
29 min
53
Gabrielle Zevin Wants to Talk About Failure
25 min
54
The Cause and Effect of Richard Flanagan
29 min
55
Rebecca Makkai Is on the Case
26 min
56
Charlotte Wood Thinks Restraint Is Underrated
25 min
57
It’s Trent Frickin’ Dalton
27 min
58
Robyn Davidson and the Impossible Book
25 min
59
David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie
26 min
60
Melissa Lucashenko is our Poet Laureate of Ratbags
26 min
61
The Three Words That Made George Saunders a Writer
27 min
62
Daniel Browning Has Something to Say
22 min
63
Eleanor Catton Has Her Doubts about Certainty
22 min
64
Kate Grenville Makes History
22 min
65
Sarah Krasnostein Was Wrong About Peter Carey
24 min
66
Daniel Lavery Has Some Advice for You
32 min
67
Leigh Sales Is a Professional Stickybeak
27 min
68
The Restlessness of Christos Tsiolkas
22 min
69
Colson Whitehead Loves a Doomed Heist
23 min
70
Shankari Chandran Nearly Gave up Writing
25 min
71
Tony Birch Doesn’t Believe in Luck
24 min
72
Anna Funder is Her Own Wife
26 min
73
We Went to Helen Garner’s House
27 min
74
Introducing Read This
2 min