Libby Angel's guest appearances

Libby Angel

BooksPlus - Separate stories podcast

RN Drive - Separate stories podcast

The Drawing Room

Published...Or Not

Nine To Noon

Literati Glitterati

Matthew Ryan

Laura Elizabeth

Michael Pryor

Damon Young

Joel Martin

Abigail Ulman

Angela Savage

Liane Moriarty

Mark Baker

Rachel Matthews

Markus Zusak

Geraldine Brooks

Alex Miles

Aaron Smith

Bruce Pascoe

OwlTail

From boarding houses to share houses to tough accommodation on the streets, Libby Angel has written about a young women encountering like minded artists and activist in 1990’s Melbourne. ‘Where I slept’ has short colourful descriptions of these people and places.'Cursed Bunny' by Bora Chung was shortlisted for the Booker prize. Lisa speaks with her about her short story writing secrets and and what being shortlisted meant for her.

Libby Angel and Bora Chung

Could there be anything more romanticised than the bohemian share houses of your youth, with a cast of random characters, perhaps painters, activists, addicts, the odd petty criminal, all floating around on the philanthropy of couches and begged cigarettes?Where I Slept by Libby Angel is autofiction, blending autobiography and fiction about living on the fringes of Melbourne society in the 1990's.

Could there be anything more romanticised than the bohemian share houses of your youth, with a cast of random characters, perhaps painters, activists, addicts, the odd petty criminal, all floating around on the philanthropy of couches and begged cigarettes? Where I Slept by Libby Angel is autofiction, blending autobiography and fiction about living on the fringes of Melbourne society in the 1990's.

Libby Angel is deconstructing the romanticism around being a struggling artist

Helen Elliott

How do we become who we are? In this edition of Literati Glitterati, Mel chats to the authors of two books consumed by precisely this question. The first is Where I slept, an autofictional work set in nineties Melbourne by writer and poet Libby Angel, which charts a young woman’s journey towards artistic self actualisation as she traverses the city’s sharehouses, squats and streets. Libby chats with Mel about unreliable narrators, writing visually, and the role of music in her practice. The second, Eleven Letters to You, by prominent literary critic Helen Elliot, is a memoir told in letters to the people who shaped her as a young person coming of age in the fifties and sixties: her neighbours, teachers, colleagues, mentors. Helen and Mel talk everyday kindness, Helen's gleaming memory, and her ferocious girlhood reading habit. 

How do we become who we are? In this edition of Literati Glitterati, Mel chats to the authors of two books consumed by precisely this question. The first is Where I slept, an autofictional work set in nineties Melbourne by writer and poet Libby Angel, which charts a young woman’s journey towards artistic self actualisation as she traverses the city’s sharehouses, squats and streets. Libby chats with Mel about unreliable narrators, writing visually, and the role of music in her practice. The second, Eleven Letters to You, by prominent literary critic Helen Elliot, is a memoir told in letters to the people who shaped her as a young person coming of age in the fifties and sixties: her neighbours, teachers, colleagues, mentors. Helen and Mel talk everyday kindness, Helen's gleaming memory, and her ferocious girlhood reading habit.

Libby Angel & Helen Elliott

Maree Coote

A program about highflyers.Libby Angel's 'The Trapeze Act' is about a daughter wanting to find out about herself, will the humourous and bizarre stories of her decendants help?Maree Coote has put famous artworks and art education together in an entertaining way in 'Andy Web;Artist'

Libby Angel and Maree Coote