Episode 32: Helen Garner discusses Volume 2 of her diaries, “One Day I’ll Remember This”, which make fascinating reading

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Helen Garner, author of classic Australian novels such as Monkey Grip as well as penetrating non-fiction such as Joe Cinque’s Consolation, discusses volume 2 of her diaries, One Day I’ll Remember This. In it she explores such eternal questions as how to strike a balance between love and freedom, and how a woman writer carves out enough time and space away from her domestic obligations to feed her creativity. Here she also discusses why self-criticism is essential to good writing and how important it is always to “Go the bloody hard way”.

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