The 3 Best Auckland Writers Festival Podcast Episodes
1) FROM A DISTANCE: ANNA FIFIELD (2021)
Former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief and 2018 winner of Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award for outstanding reporting on Asia issues, Anna Fifield, returned home in 2020 to becom...Show More
2) Street of Eternal Happiness: Rob Schmitz (2017)
NPR Shanghai correspondent Rob Schmitz has created an unforgettable portrait of modern China through the eyes of an array of real-life people living along a single street in Shanghai in his book Stree...Show More
3) Jobs, Robots And Us: Kinley Salmon (2019)
From driverless cars to digital assistants, it seems the world of work is on the cusp of a technological revolution that is generating hopes and fears alike. But are the robots really knocking at the ...Show More
4) CALLIE HART INTERVIEW
CALLIE HART INTERVIEW by Auckland Writers Festival
5) THE MORALITY OF AI: TOBY WALSH (2023)
There are approximately three million robots working in factories around the world, and another 30 million in people’s homes. Soon robots will outnumber humans. But what happens if an autonomous AI ha...Show More
6) WORDS LOST AND FOUND: PIP WILLIAMS (2023)
Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words tells the story of motherless Esme who spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lex...Show More
7) THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA: SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA (2023)
The judges for the winning 2022 Booker Prize praised Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida for the ‘ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques...Show More
8) THE BOOK OF ROADS AND KINGDOMS: RICHARD FIDLER (2023)
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms brings to life a dazzling culture of science, literature, philosophy and adventure arising out of the flourishing metropolis of Baghdad during Islam’s Golden Age. Austra...Show More
9) SOMETHING THAT MAY SHOCK AND DISCREDIT YOU: DANIEL LAVERY (2023)
Delightfully inventive and witty, Daniel Lavery (as Mallory Ortberg) was the cofounder of The Toast, the pop-culture platform with literary depth that described its target audience as ‘librarians’. Th...Show More
10) INDELIBLE CITY: LOUISA LIM (2023)
In the opening paragraphs of Stella Prize shortlisted Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, author Louisa Lim is torn between journalistic neutrality and her love of Hong Kong as sh...Show More