Episode 32: Helen Garner discusses Volume 2 of her diaries, <em>One Day I’ll Remember This</em>, which make fascinating reading

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Helen Garner, author of classic Australian novels such as Monkey Grip as well as penetrating non-fiction such as Joe Cinque’s Consolation, discusses volume 2 of her diaries, One Day I’ll Remember This. In it she explores such eternal questions as how to strike a balance between love and freedom, and how a woman writer carves out enough time and space away from her domestic obligations to feed her creativity. Here she also discusses why self-criticism is essential to good writing and how important it is always to ‘Go the bloody hard way’.

 
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Episode 31: Hilary Mantel discusses <em>Mantel Pieces</em>, a collection of her reviews for the London Review of Books on everyone from from Madonna to Marie Antoinette