A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State

Families, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years and is set against the expansive beauty of Montana; mysterious encounters and marital strife between an actor and an art critic in New York in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann. BOOKS Eric Puchner, Dream State, Sceptre Katie Kitamura, Audition, Fern Press Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, Bloomsbury GUESTS Mark Mordue, music writer, journalist, poet – whose books include Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave. He’s also director of the Addi Road Writers Festival – a community festival in Sydney’s Marrickville – coming up on Saturday 17 May Gretchen Shirm, novelist and literary critic – whose books include Having Cried Wolf, The Crying Room and her latest (published this month), Out of the Woods OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED John Irving, The World According to Garp Svetlana Alexievich, works T.S. Eliot, Gerontion Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name Han Kang, We Do Not Part James Bradley, Landfall Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited Patrick Holland, Oblivion Bret Easton Ellis, Less than Zero CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans + Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, John Jacobs + Dylan Prins Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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