Ep 56: Nose snorting with the Thespians

Recorded backstage at the Sydney Writers Festival. Sales and Crabb dissect the history of Donald Trump's hair and how it feels to 'witter' away at one of your favourite authors. There is a sweet anecdote about Roger Moore, plus discussion about John McCain and how nostalgia has become a refuge. 

• The 100 greatest descriptions of Donald Trump’s hair ever written - by Monica Hesse (Washington Post; 2016 Jun 2)

• My writing day - by Anne Enright (The Guardian; 2016 Apr 23)

• Sydney Writers Festival 2017 Opening Night: Brit Bennett, Anne Enright and George Saunders - 22-28 May 2017

• Man shares heartwarming childhood memory of Roger Moore : Marc Haynes account of meeting Roger Moore (via UK Telegraph; 2017 May 23)

• Putin a bigger threat than ISIS says John McCain - interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30 2017 May 29)

• Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir - by John McCain, Mark Salter

• What Donald Trump was up to while John McCain was a prisoner of war - by Michael E. Miller and Fred Barbash (Washington Post; 2015 Jul 20)

• Veep : Season 6 (2017)

• Master of None - Season 2 - Netflix (Starring: Aziz Ansari, H. Jon Benjamin, Eric Wareheim)

• Kumail Nanjiani’s Culture Clash Comedy - by Andrew Marantz (New Yorker; 2017 May 8)

• Silicon Valley - HBO Comedy

• I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People - by Brit Bennett (Jezebel 2014 Dec 17)

• The Mothers: A Novel - by Brit Bennett

• Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of John F. Kennedy, shares a video message that commemorates the 100th birthday of her father - via CNN (2017 May 27)

• Why She Broke: The woman, her children and the lake: Akon Goude’s tragic story – by Helen Garner (*currently subscriber access only) (The Monthly, 2017 June)