Pip Adam
Book Critic - Pip Adam
This week Pip reviews books with a technology theme. She talks about The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin and a series of articles written by the Wall… Audio
Book Critic: Pip Adam
Today Pip talks about Life's Edge: The search for what it means to be alive by Carl Zimmer and Goodnight, Melancholy' by Xia Jia from Broken Stars: Sixteen Stories from the New Frontiers of Chinese… Audio
Book Critic - Pip Adam
Today Pip reviews, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom, Things I Learnt at Art School by Megan Dunn and ANTISTATIC an exhibition by Anna… Audio
Book Critic - Pip Adam
Today reviewer Pip Adam looks at some books she says are short and weird! She reviews A Greater Music by Bae Suah, The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat and The Cenus Taker by China Miéville. Audio
Book Critic - Pip Adam
Today Pip Adam follows on from her last review looking at Art Writing and Publishing. She talks about the writing of Arihia Latham in a new book that publishes graffiti and poetry to celebrate… Audio
How Pip Adam's first job as a hairdresser helps her structure a novel
Pip Adam discusses her novel Nothing to See - one of the most talked-about books of 2020 - with Carl Shuker in this highlight of the 2020 Word Christchurch Spring Festival. Audio
Book Critic: Pip Adam
Today Pip looks at how writing intersects with art. She talks about Dwelling in the Margins,edited by Katie Kerr Gloria, 'Hooked Up to Monadic Device' from the 15 April 2021 Pantograph Punch written… Audio
Pip Adam on How to Write a love scene
Author and regular book reviewer, Pip Adam, is in for this week's How to Write feature, talking about how to write a love scene! Audio
Book Critic: Pip Adam
Today Pip reviews Secret Art Powers by Jo Randerson, Red by Chase Berggrun and Motherhood by Sheila Heti. Audio
Bookmarks: Pip Adam
For Bookmarks today, we're talking to someone who writes books for a living and often joins us on Afternoons as our book critic. Pip Adam joins us in the Wellington studio to share some of her… Audio
Book Critic Pip Adam
Pip talks about the upcoming Kapiti Writers Retreat and tells us why retreats like this are so good for writers. Audio
Pip Adam on libraries and books
Novelist and writer Pip Adam looks at the place of libraries in our lives and the way they've been expanding their services. Audio
Pip Adam - the importance of writing
Pip Adam's been working on a brand new initiative which uses the medium of writing to expand your gallery and museum experience. The Curators of Wellington was originally set for Cupda Dupa before… Audio
Pip Adam on haunted books
Creative writing teacher, novelist and book critic Pip Adam discusses the attraction of scary books. Today she reviews Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson; Sisters by Daisy Johnson and Black Sand Beach: Are… Audio
Pip Adam - books on the complexity of love
Pip Adam reviews three books that demonstrate how complicated love and compassion can be, particularly within families. Audio
Pip Adam talks books
Writer and critic Pip Adam has been thinking about sound and, in particular, how it intersects with place. Audio
Book review - Nothing to See by Pip Adam
Louise O'Brien reviews Nothing to See by Pip Adam, published by Victoria University Press. Audio
Claire Mabey's good reads
Book critic and director of Verb Wellington Claire Mabey reviews Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Nothing to See by Pip Adam and a free online poetry journal Saltwater Love Zine. Audio