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In this week’s podcast we talk about the death of the Australian Literary Review, Ronnie Scott on music festivals in The Believer and we catch up on the recent This Is Not Art Festival.

Links to pieces discussed:

The original announcement on the Crikey website that the ALR would shut up shop.

Ronnie Scott’s essay ‘No Dickheads Please’ appeared in The Believer magazine and is available to sample and purchase here.

The This Is Not Art festival takes place over the October long weekend, you can read about it here.

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip.

Sam recommends Delia Falconer’s essay Everything is Illuminated: My Love Affair with CSI in the American literary magazine A Public Space.

Fiona recommends sleep.

The Rereaders is produced by Jessica Minshall.