Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio NZ National 13 June 2009

Kim’s guest after the 9.00am news is Sherman Young, the acting Head of Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, where he teaches new media theory and production. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (UNSW Press, ISBN: 9780868408040), which posits among other things, that most contemporary books now are more anti-book than book.
Sherman is a guest speaker at the Digital Publishing Forum conference, The Future of the Book, to be held on 24-25 June in Auckland.
http://digitalpublishing.org.nz/future

Other book-related guests include:
Montana Fiction and First Book finalist Eleanor Catton (9.45am), author of The Rehearsal (Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-581-2), which has been since sold to publishers in the UK, the USA, and Europe.

Photographer Bruce Connew (11.10am) whose photographic essay, Cutting Off Dissent, appears in Lost and Found, the Spring 2009 issue of Granta magazine.


He has just self-published his latest photography book, I Must Behave (Vapour Momenta, the exhibition of the same name featuring 85 images taking a sideways glance at behaviour is open now at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth (to 30 August). http://www.bruceconnew.com/
http://www.vapourmomenta.com/
www.granta.com/

After 11:45am, Kate De Goldi will discuss books by award-winning American novelist Richard Peck,(pic below), who has had 35 books for young adults published since 1972, including A Long Way from Chicago (1998), A Year Down Yonder (2000), and The River Between Us (2003).