One of the biggest names at this year's Sydney Writers Festival is Lionel Shriver. In an almost 30-year writing career she's turned her sometimes cruel and always exacting eye to high school massacres, marital infidelity and her new novel, So Much For That dives into the meltdown that is the US Health Care system. Shriver joined Elmo Keep to talk about her 'lean and mean' years as a relatively unknown author, her years working as a journalist, and the future of journalism in general.