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“Write Like Hell, Get Rejected, Don’t Give Up, Write Some More”– Gareth Crocker
Gareth Crocker recently chatted to Nadine Maritz about his latest novel, his new television show about an African superhero named Jongo and his upcoming autobiography that will be released later this...
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Bartering for a Block of Cheese: How Inflation Affected People on the Ground...
Philip Haslam recently spoke to Chris Martenson about his book, When Money Destroys Nations, which was co-written with Russell Lamberti. Haslam and Lamberti interviewed roughly 75 people and the book...
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Podcast: Taiye Selasi Discusses Afropolitanism, Her Task as a Novelist and...
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi is at once a portrait of a family and an exploration of the importance of where we come from and our obligations to one another. In a sweeping narrative that takes us...
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“Don’t Listen to the Professionals”– Cartoonist Jerm Explains Why
“Don’t listen to the professionals. They were all amateurs once.” This was the advice offered by cartoonist Jeremy Nell, aka Jerm, when asked by Nolan Stevens what his ultimate advice would be to...
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“South Africans are as Obsessed with Skin Colour as Ever”: Christopher Hope...
Sue Grant-Marshall has written an article for Business Day about her recent interview with Christopher Hope, author of Jimfish. Grant-Marshall says Hope’s latest book “is as much a travelogue as it is...
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Leading up to the 2015 Franschhoek Literary Festival: Christopher Hope Shares...
The Johannesburg-born, London-based author Christopher Hope will be one of the exciting international writers attending the Franschhoek Literary Festival this coming weekend and the Open Book Festival...
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“Like Being in Love with the Wrong Person”– Christopher Hope Describes Life...
Polity’s Shannon de Ryhove recently interviewed Christopher Hope about Jimfish, his new novel, which is set in South Africa in the 1980s and features a young man who couldn’t be classified by the...
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Don’t Call Yourself Chubby – Adriaan Liebenberg Shares His Weight-loss Tips...
Adriaan Liebenberg, neurosurgeon and author of The Brain Surgeon’s Diet, recently spoke to Yolanda Maartens on the Mommy Matters show on OFM about losing weight and keeping in off for good. The Brain...
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Gareth Crocker Chats about Jongo – A Superhero Show Rooted in the Stories of...
“On our show we focus on typical Joburg stories that the main characters go through and the special effects don’t dominate the story but enhance it.” These are the words of Gareth Crocker in an...
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Karin Brynard Talks about Weeping Waters, Farm Murders and the Skin-deep...
In the latest issue of The Big Thrill Joanne Hichens interviews Karin Brynard about Weeping Waters, the translation of her debut Afrikaans novel, Plaasmoord. Starting with the concept of farm murders,...
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Podcast: Christopher Hope Talks About His Charmed and Incorrigibly Serene...
Jenny Crwys-Williams recently interviewed Christopher Hope about his new book, Jimfish, for her CapeTalk/702 radio show. Crwys-Williams asked Hope five questions about the novel and the ideas that...
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Mathews Phosa on Rediscovering His Exile Poems: “I Thought They Were Lost...
Tamara LePine-Williams recently spoke to legendary poet, freedom fighter, lawyer and politician, Mathews Phosa, on Classic FM about his newly published Chants of Freedom: Poems Written in Exile....
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Emma Sadleir: “Just Taking out Your Phone to Film can Make People Behave Better”
Emma Sadleir, co-author of Don’t Film Yourself Having Sex: and Other Legal Advice For the Age of Social Media, was recently called on by Glynis Horning for Cosmopolitan to comment on using cellphone...
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Podcast: Gareth Crocker Hopes The Last Road Trip will Urge People to Live...
The Last Road Trip by Gareth Crocker tells the story of a group of elderly folk who decide to go on one final trip around the country together. “I write these kind of emotional, hopefully uplifting...
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“The Husband in the Book is Nothing like My Husband”: Pamela Power on Ms...
Pamela Power recently spoke to Tamara LePine-Williams on Classic FM about her racy, honest and wickedly funny novel, Ms Conception. Power, who is a scriptwriter on Muvhango, says the most difficult...
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Watter lesse het die Britse jeugboekskrywer Chris Bradford in die Bosveld...
Chris Bradford is die jong Britse jeugboekskrywer wat vanjaar ‘n draai gemaak het in Suid-Afrika by die Franschhoek Literêre Fees en die Kingsmead Book Fair. Hoezit, die “pretwerf met breinkrag” vir...
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Why is it So Important for Small Businesses to Innovate? – Douglas Kruger...
Douglas Kruger was a guest on the Winslyn show on kykNET recently where he spoke about his new book, Relentlessly Relevant: 50 Ways to Innovate. “Why is it so important for small businesses to...
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“My Imagination is Like a Bed of Glowing Embers”: An Interview with Marita...
Marita van der Vyver is one of South Africa’s most prolific and diverse writers. Despite the fact that she lives in France, Van der Vyver has achieved success across genres in both English and...
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Rocky, Remote-Controlled Cars, a Writer’s Compulsion and Other Things that...
Gareth Crocker was recently interviewed by SA Indies Rock Book Festival about his writing career. Crocker, whose most recent book is The Last Road Trip, shared the story of how he became a writer. His...
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Mathews Phosa: Chants of Freedom is a Rendition of the Struggle as It...
Jenny Crwys-Williams and Redi Thlabi recently invited Mathews Phosa to The Book Show on Talk Radio 702 to talk about his first anthology of English poetry, Chants of Freedom: Poems Written in Exile. In...
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