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In this week’s podcast we discuss the new Australian movie Red Dog, Tom Cho’s new short story in the latest Lifted Brow and the controversy surrounding Ahn Do’s award-winning ghostwritten memoirs.

Links to pieces discussed:

Garry Maddox’s Iron Men, the Sydney Morning Herald article on Red Dog and the mining industry funding Australian films.

Tom Cho’s story ‘What are the attributes of God?’ as it appeared in the latest Lifted Brow, available for purchase here.

The cute Otters holding hands, as referenced in Tom’s story.

Malcolm Knox on ghostwriting in response to the Ahn Do controversy.

Though we did not read or discuss Ahn Do’s The Happiest Refugee – instead talking more generally about ghostwriting – we would highly recommend this Meanjin essay, Stories Without Borders by Maria Tumarkin, writing on Do’s memoirs.

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends the digital journal Electric Literature [NSFW: be warned the link takes you through to a page with an illustration of a naked man on a sofa playing video games].

Fiona recommends the Tumblr My Daguerreotype Boyfriend - where “early photography meets extreme hotness” – and sneaks in a plug for her own book Knuckled, which will be out later in the year.

Sam recommends the Whit Stillman film The Last Days of Disco and not the pie that listener James Tierney challenged him to eat.

Special challenge!

Because Rebecca did not get around to seeing Red Dog we have challenged her to see a bad film – Stephen Frear’s dreadful Tamara Drewe – as revenge. Do you have other bad films to recommend as torture if we slip up in the future? We’ll discuss any recommendations on the next episode and set out to watch one ourselves!

The Rereaders is produced by Jessica Minshall.

Intro and exit music by Post Paint.