The Fictional Biographer

Life Sentences Podcast by Caroline Baum

Dec 18, 202528:22Arts

Dominic Amerena is a rising young Australian writer who has chosen a biographer as the central figure in his novel I Want Everything. His ambitious, unnamed narrator recognises an older woman at the city baths one day as...

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