In this episode of Backstory, Melissa Cranenburgh talks to publisher Phillipa McGuinness about her recently released book The Year Everything Changed: 2001, a deeply personal but simultaneously political narrative about a year when McGuiness' world was transformed by both intimate, private events as well as national and global happenings. Melissa is then joined by Christos Tsiolkas to talk about his surprising and provocative essay on Australian novelist, Patrick White, a new edition to Black Inc's series, Writers on Writers.