Podcast Fiction & Nonfiction

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (57+ words) Artsy Closed doors. The tangible light of a repetitive daily routine. Outside, it’s still dark. Outside, a journey. As the doors open, the journey begins; the darkness will be illuminated step by step. The journey into the unknown begins. There…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (75+ words) SMH.com.au September 10, 2026 — 8:00pm A groundbreaking collaboration drawing on Yolngu oral history has become the first co-authored book to win the $80,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction. A Piece of Red Cloth, written by novelist Leonie Norrington and Yolngu cultural…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (234+ words) Artsy He stands with his arm folded across his chest - not in defense, but in quiet ownership. The straw hat shades his face from a sun that has watched generations come before him. The green field stretches wide behind him,…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (592+ words) Pat Conroy’s eyes were opened to the majesty of the Lowcountry riding in Gene Norris’s Buick. That was one of many ways his Beaufort High School English teacher introduced the young writer Conroy to a world that he never knew…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (169+ words) Massachusetts authors and publishers took home top honors across several categories Wednesday as The Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2026 Massachusetts Book Awards, including Cambridge author Jill Lepore and Boston novelist Stuart Nadler. In the fiction…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (56+ words) The Mercury Vote now: Help us crown your South Aussie Book Week star The Book Week parades have been walked and now it’s time to decide who deserve best costume award. Meet your 50 finalists and vote now. All your news…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1074+ words) The bestselling author explores why – when old societal institutions crumble – some men choose to lash out, retreat into fantasy, or build fractured kingdoms of their own. Political extremists, UFO buffs, conspiracy theorists – Jon Ronson has spent decades exploring the world…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (53+ words) Ronson's new book, The Castle, examines why so many men - from a deluded millionaire to YouTubers and comedy writer Graham Linehan - have become disinhibited. August 21, 2026 — 5:00am...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (614+ words) It’s the hypothetical question that’s hardest to answer: Faced with the prospect of your own mortality, how would you react? There are very clearly no right or wrong ways, but the stories of those who’ve been there might offer clues....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (501+ words) Sarah J. Maas has finally revealed the titles and covers for the next two ACOTAR books Thankfully, Maas has given devotees of her ‘Maasverse’ – as it’s affectionately called – plenty to keep busy, including the release of a third Cresent City novel…...