Listen to Inaugural Book of the Month: The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter55:5329 May 2024

Literati Glitterati launches its monthly book club with a special live edition in the Triple R Performance Space. We unpack the inaugural book of the month: Dorothy Porter’s iconic lesbian crime thriller, The Monkey’s Mask. Celebrating thirty years since its 1994 release, this modern Australian classic is gritty, sensual and pioneering in form, told in short verses that hit like your favourite song lyrics. Mel is joined by special guests RVG’s Romy Vager, Worms Book Club’s Hayley Percy, and Dorothy’s surviving partner, award-winning novelist Andrea Goldsmith. The Literati Glitterati Salon is a new monthly book club for folks who like a good story, well told.

& get reading All Fours by Miranda July to be part of next months Book Club.

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.

Intermezzo

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.

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