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Radio Interview – ABC – ‘Out of this World’

I really enjoyed this interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) with host Kim Huynh. Kim is a man of many talents. He lectures in international relations at the Australian National University; has written about the refugee experience – both fiction and non-fiction (Kim came to Australia from Vietnam, at a very young age, as a refugee), and often writes about Vietnamese politics and society.

I was fortunate to have Kim as one of the academic advisors on my creative writing PhD – ...

The Ten Best Books I Read in 2022

Read about forty books* this year, which isn’t bad. I try to read every day – the second most important part of the job of being a writer is reading widely – but unfortunately I am also human. As a human, I’ve been bio-hacked by the addictive algorithms of social media, and the Internet more broadly, like everyone, so these distractions absorb chunks of time spent in better ways. Such as reading, or writing, or talking to real humans (rather than polarised caricatures), or playing with my sons, ...