This Week: Melbourne Writers Festival: The New Yorker trilogy, Chloe Hooper & Pico Iyer

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Follow us on Twitter Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host Tomorrow 11am on ABC1 SHORTCUTS presents a trilogy of great discussions from this year's Melbourne Writers Festival. Each session features impressive writers from The New Yorker. See The Art Game with art critic Peter Schjeldahl, Tony Ellwood, and Michael Cathcart; On Obsession with David Grann and James Button; and lastly Dancing About Architecture with Sasha Frere-Jones in conversation with Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens). Wednesday 11am on ABC1 - Should parents have the option to 'build a baby' with a wish list of 'best attributes'? The proposition for this Sydney IQ2 Debate - There's nothing wrong with designer babies. Is this a boon to humankind or unnatural interference? Saturday 10.30pm on ABCNEWS24 novelist Chloe Hooper talks with Stephen Romei literary editor at The Australian. Hooper is in conversation with Romei at this year's Melbourne Writers Festival talking about her latest work - The Engagement, best described as an erotic thriller. It's a big departure from her earlier books but Hooper does 'gothic erotic' very well.  Sunday 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - The Guardian describes best selling travel writer Pico Iyer's process such that "he has not so much travelled as wrenched himself from place to place; he has found kindred disquieted souls in disquieting locations". But this conversation is built around his latest work produced earlier this year titled The Man Within My Head. This is a compelling conversation with Michael McGirr at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Watch more with Chloe Hooper, see Robert Forster in conversation with Paul Kelly, and watch an earlier debate on designer babies in our Editor's Picks below... This Week on TV Science and Technology IQ2 Debate: There's Nothing Wrong with Designer Babies Should parents have the option to ‘build a baby’ from a wish list of ‘best attributes’? In this IQ2 debate, the proposition is 'There’s nothing wrong with designer babies’. more » Wednesday 23 October 2012, 11am on ABC1 Arts Dancing About Architecture Robert Forster - musician, music critic for The Monthly and co-founder of the iconic indie rock group, The Go Betweens -is in conversation here with Sasha Frere-Jones, the pop critic with The New Yorker, at Melbourne Writers Festival. more » Tuesday 23 October 2012, 11am on ABC1 Books and Authors Chloe Hooper in Conversation Chloe Hooper in conversation with Stephen Romei at the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival on her latest work 'The Engagement'. more » Saturday 27 October 2012, 10.30pm on ABC News24 Books and Authors Pico Iyer in Conversation Travel writer Pico Iyer in conversation with Michael McGirr at the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival. more » Sunday 28 October 2012, 11.30pm on ABC News24 Editor's Picks Science and Technology Unnatural Selection: Artificial Life and Designer Babies Big Ideas host Waleed Aly moderates an expert panel of ethicists and scientists as they discuss artificial life, designer babies and what they mean for future generations. more » Arts Paul Kelly: Making Gravy It's an Oz music fan's dream...Australia's best-loved rock 'n' roll bard, Paul Kelly, shares tales from his long and prolific music career with fellow singer/song writer Robert Forster. more » Books and Authors Chloe Hooper: Death on Palm Island In November 2004 on Palm Island an Aboriginal man, Cameron Doomadgee, was arrested for swearing at a police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in custody. The release of the pathologists’ report, which found that Doomadgee had four broken ribs and d more » Big Ideas TV| Big Ideas Radio| Contact Us You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2012 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters