Cirrus@Austlit

Jennifer Byrne is joined by Geraldine Brooks, Les Carlyon, Gen. Peter Cosgrove, and Rowley Richards for an ANZAC special to discuss writing about war.

Jennifer Byrne interviews Peter Carey, Paul Auster and Ian McEwan, as part of the Adelaide Writers' Week in 2008.

Host Jennifer Byrne discusses erotica and romance fiction with Australian authors Luke Davies, Sophie Gee, Anne Gracie and Christos Tsiolkas.

Jennifer Byrne discusses animals in literature with Australian writers Jackie French, Sonya Hartnett, Peter Goldworthy and Raimond Gaita.

Host Jennifer Byrne discusses dystopian and utopian fiction with Australian authors Emily Maguire, Max Barry, John Marsden and Richard Neville.

Jennifer Byrne discusses vampires, werewolves and man-made monsters with guest panellists Tara Moss, Leigh Blackmore, Catherine Jinks and Will Elliott.

In this episode of Jennifer Byrne Presents, Jennifer Byrne and guests 'embark on a fascinating exploration of one of the most popular writing genres - literary hoaxes. Hoaxes are almost as old as literature itself and they take many forms - frauds, plagiarism, pranks and impostures. Some hoaxes are perpetrated for money, some as practical jokes while others serve a political argument. Authorial intention, historical and social context and ethical implications must be considered. Central to most hoaxes is the concept of identity - the author's race and gender and what readers are led to believe from this apparent identity.

'In Jennifer Byrne Presents, we explore some of the most famous literary hoaxes and scandals from Ern Malley to Norma Khouri and Helen Demidenko, from the point of view of those who created them, and those who unmasked them...

'Joining Jennifer is Malcolm Knox, who broke the Norma Khouri hoax story, Walkley award-winning journalist and author Jack Marx, Michael Heyward, author of The Ern Malley Affair (1993) an account of the literary hoax perpetrated by poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, and finally, John Bayley, who posed as Leon Carmen's literary agent and together they created the fictional Indigenous author Wanda Koolmatrie. Her novel My Own Sweet Time, won the 1996 Nita May Dobbie Award for a first novel by a female writer.'

Source: ABC1 website, http://www.abc.net.au/tv/
Sighted: 10 March 2009

'Looking at the tricky business of transforming our beloved books into cinema. Some books went through the film industry mincer and came out mere shadows of their former glory, and some great films have come from literary sources.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Jennifer Byrne is joined by the heavy artillery of the publishing world to discuss what it takes to be a bestselling author. Jennifer is joined by the man behind the enigmatic Jack Reacher Lee Child, author of Ice Station and The Five Greatest Warriors Matthew Reilly, author of 17 bestselling novels including The Silent Country, Di Morrissey as well as Australia's biggest selling author Bryce Courtenay.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Jennifer Byrne presents this special on the Fantasy, joining her are Jennifer Rowe, Fiona McIntosh, Lev Grossman and Matthew Reilly.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Jennifer Byrne presents this special interview with Pulizer Prize winning Australian author Geraldine Brooks.

Jennifer Byrne Presents Memoir. Joining Jennifer are Jane Clifton, Kate Holden, Peter Fitzsimons and Benjamin Law.

'This really is an extraordinary moment in the career of writer Christos Tsiolkas. There’s the 8-part television adaptation of his bestselling novel The Slap coming soon to ABC. There’s the feature film of his previous book, Dead Europe, being produced by the team behind the Oscar-winning The King’s Speech and, to top it off, Christos has just finished the first draft of a new novel – which for readers is the best news of all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Jennifer Byrne interviews Di Morrissey.