Chronically Online
Description
Pip Finkemeyer (One Story) and Katherine Brabon (Cure) discuss how their new books tackle unbridled big tech, social media distortion, and lives lived chronically online. With Cher Tan.
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Pip Finkemeyer
Pip Finkemeyer is a novelist living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut Sad Girl Novel was published in 2023. You can find her writing in Harper’s Bazaar, Kill Your Darlings, Big Issue, Eleven Stories: The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, Mojo Best of Fiction Anthology, and more. She has a Masters in Publishing and Editing from RMIT. Pip has worked for tech companies in Australia and internationally, including a language learning app and in the not-for-profit space. She has a special interest in inclusive and accessible design. In this work as a UX writer, designer and researcher, she spent her days learning about the thoughts and feelings of people using the internet, and has tried to capture some of those thoughts and feelings in One Story. Headshot: Tessa C. Stevens
Katherine Brabon
Katherine Brabon is the award-winning author of the novels The Memory Artist, The Shut Ins and Body Friend. Her work has received the Vogel’s Literary Award, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. Her third novel, Body Friend, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal and the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne. Headshot: Tim Herbert
Cher Tan
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, was published by NewSouth in May 2024. She is an editor at Liminal and Debris magazines, and the managing editor of Overland.
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