On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin with a brief celebration of Ian winning the William Atheling Jr. Award for his reviews in Locus that meanders into a discussion about the importance of criticism and the dangers of AI. Huzzah for Ian and criticism! Boo hiss for AI!
The books up for discussion this month are The Broken Shore by Peter Temple [7:25] and Slow Horses by Mick Herron [33:30].
Mentioned in dispatches and highly recommended are the following television series:
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:04:25 for final remarks.
Next month, the two books on the slab will be:
Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!
Episode 105: The Glutton | Days of Innocence and Wonder
A short and somewhat sad message to our listeners
Episode 104: The Haunting of Hill House | A Haunting on the Hill
Episode 103: After the Forest | I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home
Episode 101: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams | The Saint of Bright Doors
Episode 100: The Book of Accidents | Conquest
Episode 99: The Trees Grew Because I Bled There | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Episode 98: The Terraformers | Sing, Nightingale
Episode 97: LOTE | Animal Life
Episode 96: Every Version of You | The Women Could Fly
Episode 95: January Fifteenth | Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Episode 94: Helpmeet | Our Wives Under the Sea
Episode 93: Such a Pretty Smile | Checkout 19
Episode 92: Dance Move | Ariadne, I Love You
Episode 91: Manhunt | And Then I Woke Up
Episode 90: Devotion | The School for Good Mothers
Episode 89: I Would Haunt You if I Could | Shit Cassandra Saw
Episode 88: The Wych Elm | My Phantoms
Episode 87: When We Cease to Understand the World | A Ghost in the Throat
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