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The Kill Your Darlings Podcast episodes

July 29, 2019 KYD First Book Club: A Constant Hum (with Alice Bishop)
For our July First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Alice Bishop to discuss her debut collection ‘A Constant Hum’, recorded live at Readings State Library Victoria on 18 July.
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41 min
July 08, 2019 KYD First Book Club: ‘Little Stones’ (with Elizabeth Kuiper)
For our June First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Elizabeth Kuiper to discuss her debut novel 'Little Stones’, recorded live at Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library on 25 June.
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31 min
June 18, 2019 KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Stop Being Reasonable’
Ellen Cregan sits down with Eleanor Gordon-Smith to discuss her debut book 'Stop Being Reasonable’, recorded live at Readings Carlton on 23 May.
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55 min
June 03, 2019 Don’t Be A Stranger (with Melanie Cheng)
Melanie Cheng joins Alice Cottrell, Alan Vaarwerk and Ellen Cregan in the studio to discuss her new novel Room For A Stranger and her recent work as a guest-curator at the Sydney Writers Festival.
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43 min
May 07, 2019 Speculative Fiction Showcase Sampler
Hear readings from our first ever Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Showcase, read by Jane Rawson, J.R. Hennessy, J.A. Haigh, Angela Meyer and Claire Corbett.
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22 min
April 10, 2019 KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Witches: What Women Do Together’
For our March First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Sam George-Allen to discuss her debut book 'Witches: What Women Do Together’, recorded live at Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library on 27 March.
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40 min
March 28, 2019 Stella Shortlists and Sparking Joy
Summer seems like a distant memory, but we here at Kill Your Darlings are just getting around to updating you on our summer reading goals. More importantly, we chat about the Stella Prize shortlist, and the ways we eternal book acquirers have dealt with the Marie Kondo 30-items-on-your-bookshelf debate. Storm in a teacup? Probably – but pop some tea in yours and settle in to listen to more book-related chat from Alice Cottrell, Alan Vaarwerk and Meaghan Dew.
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Further reading:
Find out more about the Stella Shortlist.
Angela Smith wrote for KYD in 2017 about decluttering books.
Elizabeth Duck-Chong tried applying the KonMari philosophy to her digital life.
Sophie Cunningham in 2018 on the past and future of the Stella Prize.
Thanks to Melbourne Library Service – Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre for studio space.
Theme music: Broke For Free, ‘Something Elated’.
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28 min
March 14, 2019 KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Call Me Evie’
The Kill Your Darlings Podcast is back for 2019 and so are our First Book Club events. We know you can’t always get to our events in person, but if you’ve read our February book club pick, or you’re planning to, you’ll enjoy First Book Club Coordinator Ellen Cregan’s chat with J.P. Pomare.
His debut title, Call Me Evie (Hachette), is a taut psychological suspense novel centred on a teenage girl held captive in a remote town in New Zealand. Meanwhile, now’s a great time to pick up a copy of our March book, Sam George-Allen’s Witches: What Women Do Together, ahead of our March event at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library on 27 March.
Our new theme song is Broke for Free’s ‘Something Elated’.
Further reading:
Read Ellen Cregan’s review of Call Me Evie in our February Books Roundup.
Read J.P. Pomare’s reflection on the nuances and difficulties of writing the town of Maketu.
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37 min
December 18, 2018 KYD Podcast: Summer Reads & Recommendations
The last Kill Your Darlings Podcast of 2018 is all about summer reading, so sit back and listen to our top picks to take with you on your break. We have books we discovered in 2018, books we wished we’d gotten around to reading and books we think you’d enjoy while sitting by a pool or on the beach (unless you’re Alan). We also take a look at Black Inc’s Best Summer Stories, edited by Aviva Tuffield, and some of our KYD Members share their summer reads. Enjoy your summer, whatever you read, and we’ll see you in 2019!
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Our reads and recs (of this summer and others):
Best Summer Stories – Aviva Tuffield
Meaghan Dew:
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Wayfarers Series – Becky Chambers
Beautiful Revolutionary – Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The Spotted Dog – Kerry Greenwood
Welcome to Orphancorp – Marlee Jane Ward
Alan Vaarwerk:
The Voidwitch Saga – Corey J. White
Less – Andrew Sean Greer
Goosebumps – R.L. Stine
Ellen Cregan:
The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean – Mira Robertson
The Neapolitan Series – Elena Ferrante
The Witch Elm – Tana French
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow – Jessica Townsend
Alice Cottrell:
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
Me and Mr Booker – Cory Taylor
History – Elsa Morante
The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
Monkey Grip – Helen Garner
Our KYD Members will be reading:
The World Was Whole – Fiona Wright
Milkman – Anna Burns
Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
Colouring the Rainbow – Dino Hodge
Dogwalker – Arthur Bradford
Borderlands/La Frontera – Gloria E. Anzaldúa
My Antonia – Will Cather
Thanks to Melbourne Library Service – Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre for studio space.
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32 min
December 06, 2018 KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Trace’
Journalist Rachael Brown’s book Trace: Who Killed Maria James? is our last First Book Club book for the year, and it’s a fascinating way to end 2018. Trace is Rachael Brown’s first book, but it’s not just her story. First and foremost it’s the story of Maria James, murdered in her Thornbury bookshop in 1980, and the closure her two sons, Adam and Mark, are still hoping for. Over 16 months Brown developed the ABC Trace podcast in an attempt to prompt people’s memories, bring forward new information and give Adam and Mark a better understanding of just what happened to their mother. This book tracks that journey, and Brown discussed it with our First Book Club Coordinator, Ellen Cregan, recorded live at Hill of Content Bookstore on 21 November 2018.
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? is out now with Scribe Publications, and you can listen to the Trace podcast on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.
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55 min