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Playlist by Evening Edition (Belt) (Archive)We’re on, when you’re off. Lee Chwi Lynn, Kelvin Yee and Tasha Fusil restore sanity to your day even as you’re stuck in traffic trying to get home. And who isn’t? Tune in as they take on hot-potato is…Follow the podcast:
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By the Book: Charlie Parker and Beyond - In Conversation with John Connolly
We speak with John Connolly, who's perhaps best known for his crime fiction novels featuring anti-hero Charlie Parker, about the value of growing with a character over time, writing in the crime genre, the importance of a sense of place, and the appeal of darker, complex themes. And then we dive in…
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By the Book: Book Club November 2019 - Celestial Bodies
This month’s book club takes a journey to a place that isn’t often visited in global fiction - Oman from the late 1800s to present day. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi is the first novel from a Gulf country to win the Man International Booker Prize, and Alharthi is the first female Omani author …
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By the Book: Leaving the Reading Comfort Zone
Most of us have our comfort zones when it comes to reading - those genres that we gravitate towards or pretty much stick to because of their familiar pleasures. But how easy is it to venture outside of these? A Bit of Culture’s Kam Raslan joins us to discuss how these comfort zones get created and …
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By the Book: Georgetown Literary Festival 2019 - Forewords Afterwords
We speak with the co-directors of the Georgetown Literary Festival to find out what they have in store for us this year, and the joy and philosophy behind curating a festival.
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By the Book: Boo! Frightening Monsters.
With Halloween right around the corner, we speak with Tunku Halim, Malaysia's own prince of darkness, to tease out the appeal of the horror genre and discuss what makes a scary book scary. We also share some of our favourite chilling reads!
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By the Book: Bernice Chauly’s Incantations, Incarcerations
In her latest collection of poetry titled “Incantations, Incarcerations”, Malaysian poet Bernice Chauly explores ageing, menopause, motherhood - juxtaposed against a world that is changing around us. We speak with her about writing raw and honest poetry from a female perspective, and why we need mo…
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By the Book: Book Club October 2019 - Convenience Store Woman
This month, our book club loudly greets listeners with an 'Irasshaimase!', as we discuss Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata's award-winning novel about a woman in her 30s who desires nothing more than to be a convenience store worker while living in a society that doesn't see any value in that …
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By the Book: How Do You Create Little Readers?
For most readers, the love of books is something that is instilled in childhood. Yet, how exactly do you get a child to love reading? We’re joined by fellow reader and parent Tee Shiao Eek, as we discuss how we each got introduced to books, some possible ways to create little readers, and what some…
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By the Book: Personal Politics and Problematic Authors
In light of Kamila Shamsie having a literary prize revoked for her personal support of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, we use it as a launching pad to discuss whether authors' political beliefs affect our enjoyment of their work, and for that matter, whether it should. And then we move o…
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By the Book: Book Club Sept 2019 - The Sandman, vols 1-3
As self-avowed fans of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics, we knew there was no way we could discuss the entire series in one show. So we kick things off with the first of several book club discussions on this complex series, which is centred on the idea of dreams and stories. Joining us on this journey …
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