Cool People Reading
Cool People Reading
Podcast Description
Steph from @stephanieshouseofbooks on Instagram talks to cool and creative people about what they're reading, what they recommend, and how they fit reading into their busy lives - all with a side of book-adjacent gossip.
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Focuses on literary discussions, reading lifestyle tips, and book-related personal anecdotes with episodes exploring how busy professionals integrate reading into their lives and the influence of specific book genres on their perspectives.
Your favourite footballers, chefs and influencers — but make it bookish. Steph from @stephanieshouseofbooks gets behind the mic to talk reading, recommendations, and the chaos of fitting books into busy lives with some of Australia’s most creative and cool people. Smart talk, hot recommendations and hilarious stories.
Acclaimed restaurant owner, chef and author Ben Shewry, best known for his innovative approach to modern Australian cuisine and commitment to sustainability at his Melbourne restaurant Attica, joins Steph to talk about his love of books.
How on earth does Ben find time to read? And what’s his perfect snack to accompany a book?
What did he do when he came face-to-face with Anthony Bourdain’s former assistant, after he bagged Kitchen Confidential in his own memoir?
And will Ben ever dare to skateboard with his long time friend Tony Hawk?
Plus which rock and roll front man’s memoir could Ben not get past page one of?
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Today’s reading list:
- Uses for Obsession by Ben Shewry
- Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Darkest White by Eric Blehm
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
- A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Adern
- A Lick of Fireweed by Erik Jensen
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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