While she says she 'shouldn't play favourites', the Sydney Writers Festival's artistic director, Michaela McGuire, reveals her pick of this year's authors
When Michaela McGuire devised the theme for this year's Sydney Writers' Festival, she knew it was a perfect fit., the artistic director for the festival says this year's theme, ''Lie to Me'', felt fitting leading up to a federal election.
"I was thinking about the idea of the truth,'' she said. ''I needed a fast and loose concept. Once it sort of popped into my brain, I couldn't really unthink it." The festival takes 12 months to prepare, with 400 authors featured over seven days. And, while she says she "shouldn't play favourites", there is one author's session that Ms McGuire recommends everyone see.Lanny
by Max Porter," she said. "If you have the next few months to read just one book, I would make it this one."Author Chloe Hooper would be a big pleaser for both the true crime fanatics as well as the non-fiction lovers, Ms McGuire said. Hooper's book,follows the hunt for the man responsible for starting the Black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009.
"I think it's the only book I've ever had to physically put down and have a break from," she said. "It's a really difficult read, but it's done with an incredible amount of generosity and sensitivity and it's not grubby or exploitative in any way."
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