The writers who don’t need books

Stories have been told orally, on cave walls, and in dance or any number of other ways. You’ve never needed a book to tell a story. The world’s fourth largest writers’ festival in Sydney explored storytelling this year. It featured a number of storytellers who tell their stories in new ways. I spoke to three of them.

This is a podcast: If you can’t see the player, listen to the podcast on Soundcloud . And, f you don’t want to listen to the podcast, you can read the script of the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 podcast.

Yup, I cracked out my beret for the Sydney Writers’ Festival

Joe Rospars helped get Barack Obama elected twice using his skills as a master storyteller. They might have written books about Rospars’ work but he, himself, hasn’t written one, yet he was still a headliner at the Sydney Writers’ Festival this year.

Similarly, Eli Horowitz has written a novel — sort of — but The Silent History is available only as an iPhone app. That’s, ahem, novel enough but it also has a feature that allows readers to add their own chapters.

I was lucky enough to speak to Rospars, Horowitz and Cheryl Strayed to report for the radio station Monocle 24.

This is that radio feature.
Just a handful of the berets I spotted on the last day of the festival…

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