Best selling Australian author of “rural noir”, Garry Disher hopes to be seen as novelist first and crime writer second.

American Academic Saar Shahar discusses what sets literary journalism apart from the pack.

Paul Gough shares the books that first made him fall for sci-fi . 

Three great minds in this week’s episode, determined to rise above the throng and give us something worth reading.

Guests:

Garry Disher, author of “Days End”, the fourth book in his fabulous Hirsch series.

Saar Shahar, author of “Among the Anti-vaxxers” recently published in the “North American Review” and American academic with the University of Southern California.

Paul Gough, ABC radio producer, sci-fi devotee and music aficionado www.pimpod.com

Other books that get a mention:

Saar mentions Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, “The Right Stuff” and “Bonfire of the Vanities”. Also, “One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey. And, literary journalists Joan Didion and Hunter S Thompson.

(“The American Review” was the first literary magazine to be published in the USA, in Boston in 1815.)

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Paul mentions “Ringworld” by Larry Niven, “Turtle Diary” & “Riddley Walker’ by Russel Hoban and “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars” by Christopher Paolini.

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