Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts

The Bookshelf

Mar 27, 2025•55 min

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Episode description

Kate and Cassie discuss bestselling American writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s sharp and observant collection of short stories Show Don’t Tell; You Am I frontman Tim Rogers reads First Name Second Name, an excellent debut from Queensland novelist Steve MinOn, and the ABC’s own Zan Rowe (of Triple J, Double J and Take 5 fame) shares her thoughts on Scottish singer-songwriter (from Belle and Sebastian) Stuart Murdoch’s Nobody’s Empire, a case of life inspiring art.

BOOKS

Curtis Sittenfeld, Show Don’t Tell, Doubleday

Stuart Murdoch, Nobody’s Empire: A Novel, Faber

Steve MinOn, First Name Second Name, UQP

GUESTS

Tim Rogers, lead singer with You Am I and The Hard-Ons, about to launch into a You Am I tour celebrating 30 years of the Hi Fi Way album. Author of Detours

Zan Rowe, Double J’s Music Correspondent and host of Friday Mornings; presenter of Take 5

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

Robbie Arnott, Dusk

Hannah Kent, works

Lech Blaine, Australian Gospel

Helen Garner, The Season; Monkey Grip

Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days; Horse

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Jennifer Homans, Mr. B

Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

CREDITS

Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer: Craig Tilmouth, Emrys Cronin
Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown

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