S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein
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In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.
On a May morning in Melbourne, Sarah and Jenny sink into Succession, narrative structure and shaping a story, research stepping stones, stationery, and Sarah talks about reading her early spy diaries (hello, Harriet the Spy) at a Bad Diaries Salon in Melbourne in 2018 (theme #INFLUENCED).
Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer and the Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning. She holds a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria. A regular contributor to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper, she was awarded the 2022 Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. Her latest work, On Peter Carey, is out this year from Black Inc Books.
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In this episode:
Australian writer Yumna Kassab — read about Yumna here
Malcolm Gladwell piece ‘Six Degrees of Lois Weinberg’ — here it is in The New Yorker (1999)
Nigella’s chicken in a pot with orzo — here’s the recipe
Sarah gives a beautiful reading from her 2022 book The Believer (Text Publishing, Australia; Tin House, US)
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Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.
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