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The Case for Critics
Presented in partnership with Sydney Review of Books and Radio National’s The Bookshelf
Sun
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Sun 27 Oct 12:00 PM
Arc Cinema | NFSA
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Derided, disparaged and cursed to the heavens, book critics are depicted as literature’s grand villains – as frustrated creators and gleeful wreckers. But what do critics really do? And why are they necessary for a healthy literary ecosystem? James Jiang, Beejay Silcox and Christos Tsiolkas - a trio of Aussie critics - make the case for criticism. In conversation with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh (recorded for Radio National’s The Bookshelf).