S6 Ep237: Kate & Katherine Catch Up Plus ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE by Elise Esther Hearst

Kate and Katherine catch up on why they are in their sweats, ice baths, tour shenanigans, morning pages and their general chatter. 

Our Featured Book in this episode is One Day We're All Going to Die by playwright and debut novelist Elise Esther Hearst. This segment is brought to you by HQ/Harper Collins. 

Elise Esther Hearst is a Melbourne-based author and playwright. Elise trained in London at the Royal Court Theatre and her plays include Bright World, co-written with Andrea James (Theatreworks), The Mesh (Red Stitch) and The Sea Project (Griffin Theatre) which was shortlisted for the Griffin Award.

In 2019–20, Elise was a resident writer at Melbourne Theatre Company and is currently working on a commission for Melbourne Theatre Company. In 2020 Elise’s non-fiction story, ‘Naming Rights’ was published in the 2020 edition of Antithesis Journal and she was a guest at the 2021 Jewish Book Week.

Elise’s debut novel, One Day We Are All Going To Die, is a fast-paced, sexy and darkly humorous story about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family and cultural expectations with her own desires.

Kate and Katherine mention: 

• Kate chatted with Hannah Kent for an event at at Matilda Books in the Adelaide Hills and mentions her interview for the podcast
• An incredible Canberra Writers Festival event with Isy Oderberg (Hard to Bear), Dr Neela Janakiramanan (The Registrar) and Gabrielle Jackson (Pain and Prejudice)
• Kate chatted to Astrid Edwards about The Hummingbird Effect - you can listen now on The Garret Podcast
• Paul Dalgarno's A Country of Eternal Light
• Mirandi Riwoe's new novel Sunbirds
• talking about books with spoilers
• Katherine's enjoying doing morning pages (re-inspired by Natasha Lester's excellent newsletter Bijoux)
• Kate's loving her new up-sized note book with no lines (also an excellent pen)

Reading

• One Song by AJ Betts
• Beatrix & Fred by Emily Spurr
• Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore (recommended by Jason at Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide)
• The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Listening

• Read This - new podcast from The Monthly with Michael Williams. Katherine loved eps with Helen Garner and Anne Funder & Kate loved the chat with Christos Tsiolkas

Watching

• Kate and the fam are finally watching Ted Lasso and LOVING IT
• Katherine's loving Collin from Accounts
• On fun meet-cutes Kate re-recommends Sharon Horgan's Catastrophe and Bad Sisters

Coming up

• Mark Smith is hosting Kate at Heads and Tales Bookshop on Sept 7 at Barwon Heads
• Kate will be at Port Fairy Literary Weekend Sept 8-10 and at Write Around the Murray Sept 15-17
• Katherine will be chatting to Nick Bhasin for Eltham Bookshop on Sept 28
• Katherine will be hosting the Melbourne launch of Clare Fletcher's Love Match at Robinsons Bookshop on Friday Oct 6