The Readings Podcast

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Booking Overview

A weekly books-and-culture interview podcast featuring author conversations, literary event recordings, bookseller discussions, and publishing-industry perspectives. PR agencies could credibly pitch authors promoting books, literary scholars, publishing professionals, and subject-matter experts with a strong connection to books or reading; booking difficulty is likely medium, with relevance to books and literary culture more important than broad celebrity status.

Metrics

Episodes: 388

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: Australia

Instagram: 79.0k followers

Contact Information

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Published authors, academics and subject experts with relevant books, booksellers and buyers with specialist knowledge, and publishing or literary professionals.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or other substantial literary work, Expertise in literature, books, reading, or publishing, Professional experience in bookselling, children's books, comics, or literary culture

Recent Guest Discussions

Jack Corbett - Australia’s History, Foreign Policy, And Relationships With Pacific Island Countries.

Joanne Wallis - Australia’s History, Foreign Policy, And Relationships With Pacific Island Countries.

Chris Ames - Short Fiction, Modern Life, Technology, Parenthood, Loss, Memory, And The Tension Between Digital And Real-world Experience.

Kim Gruschow - Children’s Graphic Novels, Comics, And The Development Of The Graphic-novel Form In Australia.

Bernard Caleo - Comics, Graphic Novels, Children’s Reading, And The Place Of These Forms Within Books And Publishing.

Recent Topics

Books, Literature, Publishing, Authors, Reading

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Readings Podcast
:

Simon Reynolds in Conversation

August 11, 2026

In today's episode, a conversation with Simon Reynolds, acclaimed music writer and journalist, and author of a new book, Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994. Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the mid-Eighties into the early Nineties. Capturing the musical e...

Jordan Prosser in Conversation

August 07, 2026

In this episode, a conversation recorded at the Melbourne launch of Jordan Prosser’s new work of fiction/sci-fi, Blue Giant, an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism – and a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness. Abby always believed she was destined for great things. But her dream career as an industry-disrupting fashion designer went up in smoke, and her aspirations to become a world-renowned yogi and/or save the endangered tigers proved equally frui...

Avigayl Sharp in Conversation

August 04, 2026

In this episode, a conversation with Avigayl Sharp, author of a blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders. In Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town. In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of t...

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