Irma and Craig talk about the differences in typing and handwriting work.
Then they both speak to Nigel Featherstone about how he always feels like an outsider, why it shits him that writing isn’t considered real work, how Tony Abbott was the unlikely inspiration for his novel Bodies of Men, the strange benefits of interviewing his characters, why he is an obsessive re-drafter, the experience of a writing nervous breakdown and the moment his agent thought he literally died on the phone to her.
About Nigel
Nigel Featherstone is a Goulburn-based writer. His work includes novels, novellas, short stories, essays, memoirs, plays and even a libretto! His awards include being longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, short-listed for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year award, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards and a 2020 Canberra Critics Circle Award. His novels include the highly-praised Bodies of Men, and his latest novel is My Heart is Wild Little Thing.