Special episode: A reading audit - How good a reader are you?

In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with a special episode featuring Jan Fran, Leah Purcell and Jessie Tu.

• Introduction: Why a special episode?
• Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid talk accountability and reading audits.
• Chapter 2: Jan Fran reflects on her experience of the 2005 Cronulla Riots in Western Sydney, introduces her forthcoming book, and recommends Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.
• Chapter 3: Leah Purcell shares her thoughts on her family’s heritage of oral storytelling and recommends a number of books, including Is That You, Ruthie? and Bittersweet Journey by Ruth Hegarty, Don’t Take Your Love To Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Many Lifetimes: A Memoir by Audrey Evans.
• Chapter 4: Jessie Tu considers her motivations for writing her 2020 debut novel A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing and recommends the nourishment of essays by feminists Olivia Laing, Deborah Levy, Rebecca Solnit and Jia Tolentino, as well as the work Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Man-joo.
• Recommendations: For fiction lovers, Astrid recommends Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Jamila recommends The White Girl by Tony Birch. For those looking for non-fiction, Jamila recommends Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge and Astrid recommends We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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