In this episode I talk to Sarah Jane Barnett about Anne Kennedy's The Time of the Giants. Last episode we celebrated the launch of Sarah Jane's new book Work This episode includes sounds released under Creative Commons licenses from Freesound.org Thanks to Freesound users: kwahmah_02 and The Baron Better off Read is available on iTunes where you can subscribe … Continue reading Episode 27: Sarah Jane Barnett and Pip Adam talk about The Time of the Giants by Anne Kennedy

On Thursday at VicBooks Sarah Jane Barnett and Hue and Cry celebrated the launch of Sarah's new collection of poetry Work I'm talking with Sarah in the next episode about Anne Kennedy's The Time of the Giants  In the meantime please enjoy this episode with some of the highlights from the launch. Here's some photos taken by … Continue reading Episode 26: The Launch of WORK by Sarah Jane Barnett

A fundraising celebration of radical and independent publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond was held on Saturday September 26, 2015 at Moon Bar in Newtown, Wellington. AK Press is a worker-run, collectively managed anarchist publishing and distribution company, in operation since 1990. On March 21st of this year, a fire in a building behind AK’s … Continue reading Episode 25: Rebel Moon: An AK Benefit

This week I spoke to Tim Corballis about his new book R.H.I. published by Victoria University press. Here is a video loop Tim put together which played at the celebration of the launch of the book.   You can also listen to an interview with Tim on Plains FM here  Better off Read is available … Continue reading Episode 24: Tim Corballis and Pip Adam talk about Tim’s new book R.H.I.

Pukeahu: An Exploration Anthology is a place-based anthology of waiata, poems, essays, and fiction about Pukeahu / Mt Cook, a small hill in Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand that rises between two streams. You can read Pukeahu at http://pukeahuanthology.org Better off Read is available on iTunes where you can subscribe by clicking here Better off Read is also available on PodBean … Continue reading Episode 23: Pukeahu: An Exploratory Anthology

In this episode I speak to Joe Buchanan amazing reader, writer and scientist about Stanislaw Lem's Solaris. You can read Joe's thesis here You can see the research specimens he collected for his thesis here Better off Read is available on iTunes where you can subscribe by clicking here Better off Read is also available on … Continue reading Episode 22: Joe Buchanan and Pip Adam talk about Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

This episode we are celebrating the publication of Lynn Jenner's new book Lost and Gone Away launched by Auckland University press this week. You can read more about Lynn at her website PINKLIGHT Better off Read is available on iTunes where you can subscribe by clicking here Better off Read is also available on PodBean … Continue reading Episode 21: Celebrating the Launch of Lynn Jenner’s Lost and Gone Away

I spoke with writer Natasha Dennerstein about Geoff Cochrane's The Bengal Engine's Mango Afterglow a book we are both very fond of. Natasha is in San Francisco where she writes and studies. Here is a video of her reading last year. And here is a video of the Word Party/Nova Jazz at Top of the Mark … Continue reading Episode 20: Natasha Dennerstein and Pip Adam talk about The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow by Geoff Cochrane

Carl Shuker's novel The Method Actors was published in 2005. In this episode we celebrate this it's 10th anniversary. You can watch Motown Junk by the Manic Street Preachers here. Better off Read is available on iTunes where you can subscribe by clicking here Better off Read is also available on PodBean where you can subscribe by clicking here … Continue reading Episode 19: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Method Actors by Carl Shuker

On Thursday June 4, VicBooks hosted the launch of Overland Issue 219, you can see some photos here Overland is a suite of online and paper publications with the mission to 'foster new, original and progressive work exploring the relationship between politics and culture, especially literature, and to bring that work to as many people as possible.' … Continue reading Episode 18: Overland Aotearoa Launch