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Read This is a show about the books we love and the stories behind them, hosted by Michael Williams. Every Thursday, you’ll hear insightful conversations with the smartest, funniest readers and writers we know and in-depth interviews with the best Australian and international authors talking about their lives and their work. You’ll never be left wondering what to read next.

Episode Date
You Should Be Reading Catherine Chidgey
Jun 25, 2025
Kevin Barry Is a Gunslinger
Jun 18, 2025
Dominic Amerena Finds Happiness in the Act of Writing
Jun 11, 2025
John Rebus Will Outlive Ian Rankin
Jun 04, 2025
Hoot and Holler for Kaliane Bradley
May 28, 2025
Torrey Peters’ Never-Ending Transition
May 21, 2025
Kevin Wilson Is Wonderfully Weird
May 14, 2025
What’s On Jessica Stanley’s Bookshelves?
May 07, 2025
Josephine Rowe Isn’t Interested In Efficiency
Apr 30, 2025
James Bradley Thinks Kindness is a Superpower
Apr 23, 2025
Chris Flynn’s New Book Arrived in a Dream
Apr 16, 2025
The Imaginary Village of Niall Williams
Apr 09, 2025
Nothing Happens In Ayşegül Savaş’s Book and That’s Great
Apr 02, 2025
The Long Ireland of Colm Tóibín
Mar 26, 2025
Zanzibar Is Still Home for Abdulrazak Gurnah
Mar 19, 2025
Robert Dessaix Is a Fox (Not a Hedgehog)
Mar 12, 2025
How Sonia Orchard Reclaimed Her Story
Mar 05, 2025
Andrea Goldsmith Finds the Poetry In Death
Feb 26, 2025
Sean Wilson Pulls Back the Curtain on Dementia
Feb 19, 2025
Alex Miller Finally Lets His Friend Die
Feb 12, 2025
The Real Rachel Khong
Feb 05, 2025
This Is Not Michelle de Kretser
Jan 29, 2025
The Tangled Branches of Lech Blaine’s Family Tree
Jan 22, 2025
Noni Hazlehurst Is Being Herself
Jan 15, 2025
Read This Returns January 16!
Jan 08, 2025
We Went Back to Fitzroy Pool
Dec 18, 2024
An Evening With Alan Hollinghurst
Dec 11, 2024
The Only Difference Between Kanye and John Safran
Dec 04, 2024
Clare Wright Is Shutting Up and Listening
Nov 27, 2024
Thank God for Rick Morton
Nov 20, 2024
Rachel Kushner Is Not Auditioning for Her Own Dream
Nov 13, 2024
Santilla Chingaipe Is Rewriting History
Nov 06, 2024
Tim Winton’s Got the Juice
Oct 30, 2024
Nardi Simpson Is Breaking Her Own Rules
Oct 23, 2024
Robbie Arnott’s Restless Mind
Oct 16, 2024
Uses for Ben Shewry
Oct 09, 2024
Melanie Cheng, Superstitious Doctor
Oct 02, 2024
Rumaan Alam on Class, Desire, and Dread
Sep 25, 2024
Richard Osman Investigates
Sep 18, 2024
Malcolm Knox Finds Comedy in Toxic Friendships
Sep 11, 2024
Caoilinn Hughes Is Barely Patient Enough to Write
Sep 04, 2024
Literary Giant Rodney Hall Wishes He Was Taller
Aug 28, 2024
It’s Not Roxane Gay’s Job to Make People Happy
Aug 21, 2024
The Multiple Belongings of Elif Shafak
Aug 14, 2024
Eric Beecher Is a Media Mongrel
Aug 07, 2024
Alexis Wright Is the 2024 Miles Franklin Winner
Aug 02, 2024
Evie Wyld Is Having More Fun Than You Think
Jul 31, 2024
Michael Robotham and His Cabana of Cruelty
Jul 24, 2024
Dylin Hardcastle Has Found Their Own Voice
Jul 17, 2024
We Visited Gerald Murnane at the Goroke Golf Course
Jul 10, 2024
Michael Ondaatje Is Learning Everything Again
Jul 03, 2024
Paul Murray and the Beautiful Opera of Life
Jun 26, 2024
Don’t Call Paul Lynch’s Book a Political Novel
Jun 19, 2024
Leslie Jamison’s Search History
Jun 12, 2024
What Is Wrong with Viet Thanh Nguyen?
Jun 05, 2024
All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro
May 29, 2024
Miranda July Wrote the Book She Couldn’t Find
May 22, 2024
Andrew O’Hagan’s Big Dickensian Energy
May 15, 2024
It’s Winnie Dunn’s Turn in the Spotlight
May 08, 2024
Resisting Catharsis with Sloane Crosley
May 01, 2024
See You Next Week!
Apr 24, 2024
Morris Gleitzman’s World of Possibilities
Apr 17, 2024
Vulgarity, Death, and Patrick deWitt
Apr 10, 2024
Louise Milligan Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve
Apr 03, 2024
Friends, Mary Beard Fans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
Mar 27, 2024
Jonathan Lethem Is Ripping It up and Starting Again
Mar 20, 2024
Anne Enright Is Not Really Writing About Families, Actually
Mar 13, 2024
Nam Le Is Back
Mar 06, 2024
Gail Jones Was Saved by Reading
Feb 28, 2024
Why Kate Jennings Is There in Everything Erik Jensen Writes
Feb 21, 2024
No Dogs Die in Briohny Doyle's New Novel
Feb 14, 2024
How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist
Feb 07, 2024
Read This is back Feb 8!
Jan 31, 2024
We Went to Fitzroy Pool
Dec 13, 2023
Max Porter’s Freight Is Proportioned to His Groove
Dec 06, 2023
Why Michelle de Kretser Wants You to Read Shirley Hazzard
Nov 29, 2023
Gabrielle Zevin Wants to Talk About Failure
Nov 22, 2023
The Cause and Effect of Richard Flanagan
Nov 15, 2023
Rebecca Makkai Is on the Case
Nov 08, 2023
Charlotte Wood Thinks Restraint Is Underrated
Nov 01, 2023
It’s Trent Frickin’ Dalton
Oct 25, 2023
Robyn Davidson and the Impossible Book
Oct 18, 2023
David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie
Oct 11, 2023
Melissa Lucashenko is our Poet Laureate of Ratbags
Oct 04, 2023
The Three Words That Made George Saunders a Writer
Sep 27, 2023
Daniel Browning Has Something to Say
Sep 20, 2023
Eleanor Catton Has Her Doubts about Certainty
Sep 13, 2023
Kate Grenville Makes History
Sep 06, 2023
Sarah Krasnostein Was Wrong About Peter Carey
Aug 30, 2023
Daniel Lavery Has Some Advice for You
Aug 23, 2023
Leigh Sales Is a Professional Stickybeak
Aug 16, 2023
The Restlessness of Christos Tsiolkas
Aug 09, 2023
Colson Whitehead Loves a Doomed Heist
Aug 02, 2023
Shankari Chandran Nearly Gave up Writing
Jul 26, 2023
Tony Birch Doesn’t Believe in Luck
Jul 19, 2023
Anna Funder is Her Own Wife
Jul 12, 2023
We Went to Helen Garner’s House
Jul 05, 2023
Introducing Read This
Jun 21, 2023