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From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
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Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
The Temperature: An Interview with Katerina Gibson
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author Katerina Gibson about her new novel The Temperature.
Katerina Gibson (1994) is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award, and was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in HEAT, Granta, Overland, The Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and New Australian Fiction, among other places. Her story ‘Fertile Soil’ was the Pacific region winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was later translated into Italian.
Katerina was named SMH 2023 Best Young Australian Novelist. Her debut novel The Temperature is forthcoming with Scribner in September 2024.
Katerina is represented by Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown:
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Always Will Be: An Interview with Mykaela Saunders
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Join us today for a live recording of Dr Mykaela Saunders' Always Will Be Book Launch. Mykaela discussed her prize-winning book with Michelle, and the event was held at the Writers and Readers Lounge, Macquarie University, Wallumatta, Dharug Country.
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Daisy and Woolf: An Interview with Michelle Cahill
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author, poet and theorist, Michelle Cahill. Daisy and Woolf was published to much critical acclaim in 2022 by Hachette. It's now on the cusp of publication in India. An anticolonial reframing of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Michelle Cahill puts 'the dark, adorable' Eurasian side-character Daisy front and centre in this stunning novel.
For mroe information on Michelle Cahill, please visit her website: https://michellecahill.com/
Monday May 13, 2024
The Story Thief: An Interview with Kyra Geddes
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Join Michelle as she talks with author Kyra Geddes about writing and publishing The Story Thief, a novel about a young woman growing up in Sydney during the 1920s, and her connection to the iconic Henry Lawson short story, 'The Drover's Wife'.
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Friendship as Contest: Interview with Dr Neil Durrant on Nietzsche and Friendship
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
This week, Stephanie, Michelle and Jimmy are joined by Faculty Executive Director, Dr Neil Durrant to discuss his new book, Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics, which explores the importance of contest in friendships.
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
MQ PACE: Michelle Council interviews Clémence Michallon about The Quiet Tenant
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
As part of this year's MQ PACE project, Michelle Council interviews journalist and best-selling author, Clémence Michallon, about her novel, The Quiet Tenant.
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Interview with Dr Adrian Renzo and Dr Liz Guiffre on the Princess of Pop - Kylie Minogue
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
This week, Stephanie is joined by Dr Adrian Renzo of Macquarie University and Dr Liz Guiffre of UTS to discuss their new book Kylie, on Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album, which was recently released by Bloomsbury's 33 and 1/3 series.
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Cast Mates: Interview with Sam Twyford-Moore
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
In this episode of From the Lighthouse, Michelle talks with Sam Twyford-Moore about his latest book, Cast Mates that delves into Australian cinema and the actors who made it at home and in Hollywood.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
As part of this year's MQ PACE project on Indigenous Australian Fiction, Kate Milne discusses Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss (pronounced "Hice") and Nardi Simpson's Song of the Crocodile.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
MQ PACE Indigenous Australian Fiction: Jasmine Oke on Enclave
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
As part of this year's MQ PACE project on Indigenous Australian Fiction, Jasmine Oke discusses Claire G. Coleman's Enclave with Indigenous artist and Macquarie University alumnus, Dylan Barnes.