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Oncology Congress

Oncology Congress

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Oncology Congress provides US-based, practicing oncologists, nurses and pharmacists with the latest clinical data, best practices, and technology-driven innovations that directly enhance clinical practice and patient care.
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Sixth & I LIVE

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Sixth & I celebrates the unexpected convergence of arts, culture, and spirituality by hosting impactful, entertaining, and thought-provoking programs for the Washington, DC community and beyond. Sixth & I LIVE brings you exclusive access to the conversations on our stage with today’s leading authors, politicians, comedians, artists, journalists, actors, and thought leaders. Learn more at sixthandi.org.
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The ABR Podcast

The ABR Podcast

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Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts. For more information about ABR, visit our website, www.australianbookreview.com.au
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This week on The ABR Podcast, Kevin Bell addresses the crisis in housing in Australia – a crisis which he says is at risk of ‘turning into a social and economic catastrophe’. Kevin Bell is a self-described baby boomer who, in his role as a Supreme Court judge, wrote a number of influential judgments on human rights and housing. He is a former direc…
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This week on the ABR Podcast, Joel Deane considers the black and white politics of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Deane explains that Dutton considers these politics a ‘police trait’ that he developed while in the force, and one that now serves him well in politics, especially when making necessary snap judgements. But will this style endear him t…
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To mark the 25th anniversary of “The West Wing,” cast members Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol Fitzpatrick, Assistant to the Press Secretary) and Mary McCormack (Kate Harper, Deputy National Security Advisor) have written a love letter to the show, the people who made it, the fans who loved it, and the service it inspired with What’s Next: A Backstage Pas…
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This week on the ABR Podcast, Paul Kane marks the centenary of James Baldwin with an essay on this indispensable prophet. Kane tells us: ‘Baldwin insisted that the only way forward, the only way out [for America], was through a renovation of the self, and this could only be accomplished through deep communication and empathy’. Paul Kane is Professo…
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This week on the ABR Podcast we conclude our three-episode special on the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the winning story, ‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van Epps. The judges described ‘Pornwald’ as ‘a puzzle that tests the limits of realism with an often riotously deadpan sense of humour’. Jill Van Epps is a writer and filmmaker based in Br…
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Progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen—a YouTuber, host of the “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen” podcast, and MSNBC contributor—explains how American politics has turned into a dire situation, and what can be done about it, in Shameless. In a conversation moderated by Shaniqua McClendon, the Vice President of Politics for Crooked Media, …
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This week on the ABR Podcast, we continue to celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize with the second of three episodes featuring the shortlist. This week’s story is ‘M.’ by Shelley Stenhouse. The judges had this to say about ‘M.’: ‘Wittily told, this rollicking tale set in New York City is at once a character study of the garrulou…
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On the occasion of the paperback release of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow—a New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie National Best Seller—Gabrielle Zevin shares the exhilarating story of two friends who come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately…
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Beginning this week on the ABR Podcast, we celebrate the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist over three episodes. In each episode, one of the three shortlisted authors will read their story – also published in the August issue of ABR. The overall winner of the Jolley Prize will be announced at an event at Gleebooks in Sydney on Au…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Robyn Arianrhod considers the state of popular science writing in the Australian literary landscape. She argues that in-depth science writing with popular appeal and literary value is increasingly hard to find in Australia. And where exemplary works of this kind are published, they are rarely recognised with reviews or l…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature an essay from the ABR archive: ‘Links in the Chain: Legacies of British slavery in Australia’ by Georgina Arnott. In this essay, Arnott considers how the field of Australian history will be reshaped by emerging links between British slavery in the Caribbean and early settlers to the Australian colonies. Georgi…
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In White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, Rev. Barber addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans. This program was held on June 12, 2024 in partnership with…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Timothy J. Lynch considers whether the United States is on the path to a second civil war, as forecast by Nick Bryant in The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself. In his book, Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, argues that hate and paranoia form a central core of the American experience. Timot…
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On this week’s ABR Podcast, Nick Hordern tells the story of Mitty Lee-Brown, the Australian artist who went into self-imposed exile in 1968 to Ceylon, which in 1972 became Sri Lanka. Nick Hordern is a former diplomat and journalist, and the author of several books, including World War Noir: Sydney’s Unpatriotic War. Listen to ‘Mitty Lee-Brown: arti…
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Dan is the Mayor of Maple Ridge here in BC Canada. Dan has opened over 150 franchises all over the world. Dan also has his own book store in Maple Ridge. Suggested Book: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (Stephen R. Donaldson) Who Moved My Cheese? (Spencer Johnson) Suggested Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience Ted Talks…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Seumas Spark reviews Black Duck: A year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood. Spark writes: ‘Black Duck is two things: a record of a year in the life of the farm, and a collection of musings on life and Country’. Seumas Spark is an historian at Monash University. Listen to Spark’s ‘Pascoe's vision: Musings on lif…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, we feature the third-place winner in this year’s Calibre Essay Prize, Nicole Hasham’s ‘Bloodstone: The day they blew up Mount Tom Price’. In preparation for the essay, Walkley Award-winning journalist Nicole Hasham travelled to the site of Wakathuni, the Pilbara mountain also known as Tom Price that was blown up in 1974 …
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Dr. Mark Hyman’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, Young Forever, revealed how to reverse the biological hallmarks of aging through dietary, lifestyle, and longevity strategies. In his new companion cookbook, The Young Forever Cookbook: More than 100 Delicious Recipes for Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life, Dr. Hyman shares recipes to help you …
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Peter Rose reviews Hazzard and Harrower: The letters, edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham. The correspondence between writers Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower ran from 1966 to 2008 and, in its unedited form, amounted to 400,000 words. Editors Susan Wyndham Brigitta Olubas have trimmed it down: ‘For the time…
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In The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis, the “This Week” and “Good Morning America” host recounts the crises that decided the course of history from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions. In conversation with Jonathan Martin, POLITICO’s politics bureau chief and senior political columnist. This progra…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Frank Moorhouse biographer Matthew Lamb tells of his subject’s battle to defend Australian authors and the founding of Copyright Agency in 1974. Listen to Matthew Lamb with ‘Copyright and its discontents: Frank Moorhouse’s battle to defend authors’, published in the June issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv…
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In Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World. the former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. In conversation with Kara Swisher, an award-winning journalist, the host of…
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Last month ABR announced the winner, runner-up and third-place recipient of the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. In this week’s podcast we are delighted to present the 2024 Calibre runner-up, ‘Hold Your Nerve’, by Melbourne writer Natasha Sholl. Natasha Sholl is a writer and lapsed lawyer. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The …
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The executive producer of “The Real Housewives” franchise and host and executive producer of “Watch What Happens Live” returns to Sixth & I for his fifth appearance to celebrate the paperback release of his New York Times bestselling memoir, The Daddy Diaries, talk about the latest Housewives happenings, and answer your questions about everyone’s f…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Tony Hughes d’Aeth reviews On Kim Scott: Writers on writers by Tony Birch. The book is the latest instalment in Black Inc.’s ‘Writers on Writers’ series. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia and the author of several books including the recently published …
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In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, the Nobel Laureate dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. In conversation with Timothy Noah, a staff writer for the New Republic and a contributing editor at The Washington Monthly. This program was held on Apri…
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With the publication of the May issue, ABR was delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Calibre Essay Prize. Tracey Slaughter – from Aotearoa New Zealand – has become the first overseas writer to claim the Calibre Prize with her essay ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’. We are thrilled Tracey Slaughter could join the ABR Podcast to re…
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Armando directs all the technical stuff when it comes to huge events. From helping out with small hotel events, to driving equipment around, to directing events of some of the biggest companies and people all around the world. Suggested Book: The Stand (Stephen King) Suggested Podcast: The Ricky Gervais Show…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Scott Stephens reviews a book by Anne Manne: Crimes of the Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican paedophile network of Newcastle, its protectors and the man who fought for justice. Why is narcissism a central theme for a book about child sexual abuse? Stephens writes: ‘without the capacity or willingness to be attentive to t…
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This week on the ABR Podcast we review a profile of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics by Lech Blaine is the ninety-third issue of the BlackInc Quarterly Essay. In his review of Bad Cop, political biographer Patrick Mullins begins by comparing Dutton to another cop-turned-politician in Bill Hayden. Listen to …
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Kris is a successful entrepreneur as well as photographer who took photos for Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, The National Geographic newspaper, etc. Kris is the CEO of Future proof Creatives and the Founder and Director of the Fatal Festival. Suggested Book: Jitterbug Perfume (by Tom Robbins)Matthew S.
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Dawson and his 2 friends co-founded VHLA. Their aim is to change the way that tradition mainstream media gives their financial reports. They have grown to having a successful YouTube Channel, Discord, Course, Marketing, Merch, Daily Newsletters etc. Suggested Book: Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls) Their Website: https://www.vhlamedia.com/ Th…
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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Michael Shmith reviews a memoir from poet, novelist, librettist, and Adelaide GP Peter Goldsworthy. The book’s title is The Cancer Finishing School. Shmith begins by observing that doctors aren’t supposed to become incurably ill, before immediately recognising this as the useless delusion of a patient. Michael Shmith is …
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Culled from decades of journal entries, Becky Lynch, The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl delves into the WWE star's earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame—offering a raw and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character played on TV. In conversation with Lauren Ober, a podcast creator, host, a…
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In this week’s ABR podcast we feature one of the winners of the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Gregory Day’s ‘The Neighbour’s Beans’ was joint winner of the prize that year with Carrie Tiffany’s ‘Before He Left the Family’. Gregory Day commented at the time that ‘the short story form encourages an intense display of the writer’s craft…
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Leading American Jewish thinkers on Israel—Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Peter Beinart, journalist and political commentator, and Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at the Israel Policy Forum—offer differing perspectives on how some American Jews have been reevaluating their identities as liberals and their…
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