In this epsiode, Katherine talks to the best-selling, multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer Sarah Krasnostein. Sarah’s work has appeared in a variety of publications in Australia, the UK and America including The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Tablet Magazine, Longreads, Meanjin and Oxford Handbooks Online as well as various academic journals. She has a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria.
They discuss:
- How she builds relationships with the people she writers about and the ethics/awkwardness involved
- What is the hardest to write
- Ghosts and research for The Believer
- Most awkward fan moment
The books Sarah recommends are The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser. (See our interview with Bram here)
The First Time podcast 