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12 August 2008

Car Lovers with John Dale and Tony Davis

The road trip is a strong theme in Australian film but what about in our writing? Car Lovers: Twelve Australian Writers on Four Wheels is a collection of new writing about our relationship to cars as vehicles of memory, grief and freedom. Writers like Peter Carey and Debra Adelaide contributed their stories about cars to this collection.


Guests

John Dale
Editor of Car Lovers, Director of the UTS Centre for New Writing and is the author of five books, including Huckstepp, and Wild Life.

Tony Davis
contributor, journalist, children's writer and author of two books about bad cars: Lemon! and Extra Lemon!. He has also written a memoir F.Scott, Ernest and Me.

Publications

Title: Car Lovers: Twelve Australian Writers on Four Wheels
Author: John Dale, editor
Publisher: ABC Books
ISBN: 9780 733 323 669

Presenter

Peter Mares

Producer

Sarah L'Estrange

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