2009 SILF Podcasts Up: Check out the latest round of mp3s from your favorite SILF speakers
Better late than never, so if you missed out on the SILF action, take a listen to the mp3s of the sessions on the SILF blog (week 3 to be added soon!).
Week 1
- Ridley Pearson talks about developing young writers
- Robin Hanbury-Tenison on The Seventy Great Journeys in History
- Larissa Lai on Mythic Returns and Asian Futures
- Stories, Simplicity and The Book Thief with Markus Zusak
- Migration in Fiction with Marina Lewycka
- Mermaids & Poets with poet Laura Pugno
- Postcards from Tomorrow Square with James Fallows
- The Lure of China with Frances Wood
- Nicole Mones and The Last Chinese Chef
- Mohammed Hanif and a Case of Exploding Mangoes
- Marina Lewycka on Becoming A Published Writer at 57
Week 2
- The Inaugural Great FT Debate: China vs Obama’s America
- David Marr Talks about Biography and the Afterlife
- Graham Earnshaw talks about the perils of publishing
- Eli Amir on "Yasmin: An Arab-Israeli Love Story
- Laurence Lipsher talks about The Tax Analects of Li Fei Lao
- Patrick Cotter and his Perplexed Skin
- Neel Chowdhury on Blood and Money: Love and Loathing in an Indian Business Family
- Jane Godwin on The Write Stuff
- Henry Reynolds on Why Weren’t We Told? The Public Role of History
Week 3
- Liu Hong on What English Means to Me
- Cyril Cannon Talks about The Life and Times of Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor
- Stefan Schomann's Last Refuge in Shanghai: Of Love and War and Troubled Times
- Miriam Clifford & Cathy Giangrande Talk about China's Must-See Museums
- Michael Aldrich and The Search for a Vanishing Beijing
- Manying Ip on Mixed Identities – Being Chinese in the Diaspora
- Bamboo Hirst Goes Between Two Cultures
- Stephen MacKinnon on Intrigue and Romance in the 1930s – Agnes Smedley’s Shanghai
- Wang Gang on English: A Novel
- Julia Leigh in conversation with Ivor Indyk Writing the Unspeakable
- William Zorzi goes Inside “The Wire”: A Scriptwriter’s Perspective
- Simon Schama’s The American History: A Future
- Pan Jian Feng, Ou Ning and Lynn Pan on The Look of the Book: Chinese Graphic Design and Typography
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The James Fallow podcast doesn't download and there is no page for the Frances Wood podcast. Could you fix this soon please?