Episode 15: Can OzLit Be Fun? W/ Joseph Earp
Update: 2025-06-02
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This week Pat and Tim talk to writer and painter Joseph Earp about writing and painting. There’s also a little bit about the importance of failure and unfinished works; about influence and about the insecurities of Australian writers.
Before that, the Battler regular corps chat Gillard’s feminism, Western Liberal Leaders in their Noble Stand Against Israel and the Woodside North West Shelf Gas extension project.
Song as always is No Strain by Southend Rainbows. Produced by the wonderful Dan Dare.
Jo’s novel, Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, is available in bookstores everywhere, or right here at this link.
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