Explore " bernadette brennan" with insightful episodes like "Summer reading: heists, horses, Harlem, Ireland, rage", "Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London: books by Colson Whitehead, Emily Perkins and Elizabeth McCracken", "The Joys of Rereading", "Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears" and "Whatâs wrong with swearing?" from podcasts like ""The Bookshelf", "The Bookshelf", "Best of the Festivals", "The Bookshelf" and "The Minefield"" and more!
Looking for books to rock you back on your heels? You've come to the right place. Kate and Cassie read Deborah Levy's August Blue, Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor, with Miles Merrill, Bernadette Brennan, Jonathan Green and Ashley Hay
Kate and Cassie read Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of this Book and Emily Perkins' Lioness with poet Miles Merrill and literary scholar Bernadette Brennan
What does rereading mean to you, and why do you do it?
At the 2022 Sydney Writers Festival Kate Evans was joined on stage by rereaders memoirist Ruth Wilson (author of the bibliomemoir, The Jane Austen Remedy), and scholar and literary judge Bernadette Brennan (whose literary biographies include Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears and A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work)
Biographer Bernadette Brennan on why we should read and know Australian writer Gillian Mears; music writer Mark Mordue on Taylor Jenkins Reidâs Malibu Rising, and mediaevalist Louise D'Arcens on a new translation of Beowulf
These days, mass culture, movies, commercial television, music, novels are awash with language that once would have been deemed beyond the pale. Does it still make sense to speak of 'obscene language'? What makes words 'obscene'? Can obscene language be used in such a way that removes the taint from what they refer to?
Author Bernadette Brennan on the first full length literary study of acclaimed Australian author, Helen Garner.
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