Ep 493: Patti Miller on her latest memoir ‘True Friends’.

Patti Miller on her latest memoir True Friends. AWC graduates in The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald. Great read-it-later apps – and more.

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Links mentioned in this episode

• The etiquette of returning Tupperware: ‘It always comes back with something in it’
• ‘I left my $200k a year job to become a cleaner’: Why people quit office work
• Pocket
• Instapaper
• Evernote
• OneNote
• WIN Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Patti Miller

Patti Miller was raised on Wiradjuri land in central western NSW and now lives in Sydney. She is the author of Writing Your Life (Allen & Unwin, 1994, 2001); The Last One Who Remembers (Allen & Unwin, 1997); Child (Allen & Unwin, 1998); Whatever the Gods Do (Random House, 2003); The Memoir Book (Allen & Unwin, 2007); the award-winning The Mind of a Thief (UQP, 2012); Ransacking Paris (UQP, 2015); Writing True Stories (Routledge, 2017); and The Joy of High Places (NewSouth, 2019). She has also taught memoir and creative non-fiction for many years around Australia and in Fiji, Bali, Paris and London.

Patti teaches Life Writing at Australian Writers’ Centre.

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