In this episode, Mel talk to poet Kate Middleton about how television affects her teenage and grown-up self through her new poetry Television - a poetry collection that is part criticism, part autobiography.
Writer and academic Emma Darragh also joined the podcast to discuss about her new novel Thanks for Having Me - a novel about a family consist of three generation of woman as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood.
About this program
Championing stylish wordsmiths and sterling conversation, Literati Glitterati is a weekly book show that loves a good story, well told.
LITERATI GLITTERATI SALON: A MONTHLY BOOK CLUB
Join Mel and a rotating roster of bookish conversationalists as they unpack Literati Glitterati’s book of the month.
Expect a spiriting assortment of cult classics, forgotten wonders, timeless treasures, zesty new releases and pulp fictions wrestled straight from the zeitgeist by Mel herself.
Each book will be announced a month out from the special, so that you can read along at home. On the last Wednesday of every month, tune into Literati Glitterati from midday till 1pm with your thoughts and feelings ready: we’ll be taking questions through the text line.
Literati Glitterati Salon: a monthly book club for folks who like a good story, well told.
OCTOBER'S BOOK: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.
Mel will be joined on Wednesday 30 October by writers Madison Griffiths and Laura McPhee-Browne, and director of Melbourns Writers Festival Veronica Sullivan, to observe the master of modern manners, our fave millennial Marxist Sally Rooney.
