Somehow Improbably it's twenty twenty five and usual business is about to resume. I'm Michael Williams and read this is coming back for another year of the books we love and the stories behind them. If you're just joining us for the first time, that's pretty much the entire brief we get writers on I get to sit and chat to them, and we understand more about their process, their books, and the world in which they live. In twenty twenty four, we had a cavalcade of spectacular guests. I had a
revelatory conversation with All Fours author Miranda July. We talked about how she begins writing a book.
Usually I'm just down on my knees looking up this guy, being like, whenever you're ready, I'll take the lightning bolt of my next movie or book.
Malcolm Knox admitted the power of the pen not just on the page, but to completely reinvent a personality.
I don't see myself as courageous or active until I sit at the keyboard where you know, are fair to see if my own self takes over.
We heard from literary powerhouses like Roxane Gay.
Every time you read a book back, you start to see texting. In my novel and untem State, Mirae, the protagonist, she exhales cigarettes smokes so much, and I'm clearly using it as this device to show that she's sad or she's pensive. And when I read through the novel, I was like, my God, she exhales too much.
To the writers who scooped up all the awards in twenty twenty four, like the extraordinary, alexis right.
I decided very early in my literary career obviously going to be trapped in anyone's books, you know about how I should write and what I should write.
All in all, a year of excellent fun, brilliantly intelligent guests, and plenty to laugh about.
I mean, in this there's a level that I feel underappreciate, soldly.
Poor, and ride poor, underappreciated, and.
You've no idea how I suffer.
It's going to be a tough one to beat, but we could not be more ready to dive in and bring you another year of conversations from some of the best writers from Australia and around the world. From Schwartz Media. This is Read This. New episodes are going to drop from January sixteenth and every Thursday. After that, listen wherever you get your podcasts.