This week, Mel is joined in the studio by Cher Tan.
Cher Tan is an essayist, critic and editor living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. She has lived in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised.
Cher's debut collection of essays, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, contains 11 pieces of relatable, tangible and thoughtful writing. Mel and Cher talk about the dissonance between self and perceived self, artists who inspired the essay collection, and sh*tty, sh*tty jobs! Plus, Cher gives a reading of the introduction from the collection, subtitled Clocking In.
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging launches at the Brunswick Artists Bar on Thursday May 16.
Literati Glitterati Book Club Launch! - details here: https://www.rrr.org.au/events/literati-glitterati-book-club-launch
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.
