Lost the Plot – Episode 24 – Sydney Writers’ Festival Special

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Show Notes

Part 1 – Friday Afternoon

Sydney Writers’ Festival
Kendall Kirkwood
“The Rest of Us Just Live Here” by Patrick Ness
“Release” by Patrick Ness
“Terra Nullius” by Claire G. Coleman
Canberra
“The Trauma Cleaner” by Sarah Krasnostein, narrated by Rachael Tidd
21^st Biennale of Sydney

Events:
Eileen Myles: To Dig a Hole in Eternity
SWF Gala: Power
Sarah Krasnostein: The Trauma Cleaner
Writing for YA Books and Film
Leigh Sales: On Doubt
Annabel Crabb’s BooKwiz
Recognise
Gay for Page
Power Play: Toxic Masculinity in Storytelling
Eileen Myles: Straight Expectations
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Part 2 – Friday Night

Eileen Myles

SWF Gala: Power

Tayari Jones
BookScan
Judy Blume

Part 3 – Saturday Morning

Sarah Krasnostein: The Trauma Cleaner

“On Doubt” by Leigh Sales
Biography of Stella Miles Franklin
“Brokeback Mountain”

Part 4 – Saturday Middle of the Day

Writing for YA Books and Film

“Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews
“Chaos Walking” by Patrick Ness

Part 5 – Saturday Afternoon

BookWiz with Annabel Crabb
Tim Minchin
RocKwiz
Richard Fidler
Julia Zemiro

“Ghost Empire” by Richard Fidler
“Saga Land” by Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason

Part 6 – Saturday Night

Recognise

Stan Grant
Nakkiah Lui
Marcia Langton
What I meant to say was Racecraft, not Racehunt!
“Orlando” by Virginia Woolf
“Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J K Rowling
“The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams
“The Night Bookmobile” by Audrey Niffenegger

Gay for Page

Masha Gessen
Christos Tsiolkas (sorry for mispronouncing his name)
Eileen Myles (preferred pronouns are they, them)
Sally Rugg
Carmen Maria Machado
Yrsa Daley-Ward

Book recommendations
“The Sailor Dog” by Margaret Wise Brown
“Mister Dog: the dog who belonged to himself” by Margaret Wise Brown
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Jennie” by Paul Galico
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albee
“Kama Sutra” by  Vātsyāyana
Enid Blyton
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis
“Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans
Sarah Waters
Jeanette Winterson
“A Restricted Country” by Joan Nestle
“The Motion of Light and Water” by Samuel R. Delaney
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
Shirley Jackson

Junot Diaz Controversy

Part 7 – Sunday Afternoon

Eileen Myles

Power Play: Toxic Masculinity in Storytelling

Gabriel Tallent
Ceridwen Dovey

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

“Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms” by Anita Heiss

Part 8 – Sunday Night

Books we bought:

“An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
“Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia” Edited by Anita Heiss
Eileen Myles

Authors I saw:

Kate Forsyth
Tom Keneally

#MeToo event with Tracey Spicer and Eva Cox

Virginia Woolf’s actual quote:

Think of a book as a very dangerous and exciting game, which it takes two to play at.