The Bookshelf

Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts


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Kate and Cassie discuss bestselling American writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s sharp and observant collection of short stories Show Don’t Tell; You Am I frontman Tim Rogers reads First Name Second Name, an excellent debut from Queensland novelist Steve MinOn, and the ABC’s own Zan Rowe (of Triple J, Double J and Take 5 fame) shares her thoughts on Scottish singer-songwriter (from Belle and Sebastian) Stuart Murdoch’s Nobody’s Empire, a case of life inspiring art.

BOOKS 

Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don’t Tell, Doubleday 

Stuart Murdoch, Nobody’s Empire: A Novel, Faber 

Steve MinOn, First Name Second Name, UQP 

GUESTS 

Tim Rogers, lead singer with You Am I and The Hard-Ons, about to launch into a You Am I tour celebrating 30 years of the Hi Fi Way album. Author of Detours

Zan Rowe, Double J’s Music Correspondent and host of Friday Mornings; presenter of Take 5 

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

Robbie Arnott, Dusk

Hannah Kent, works

Lech Blaine, Australian Gospel

Helen Garner, The Season; Monkey Grip

Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days; Horse

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Jennifer Homans, Mr. B 

Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

CREDITS

  • Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
  • Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
  • Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Emrys Cronin
  • Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown
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