S5E4 QWS Troy Hunter and Dennis Altman – activist, academic and author

QWS S5E4 Dennis Altman and Troy Hunter

TEXT 🎙️ New QWS Podcast Episode! 🌈✨

In QWS S5E4, Troy chats with the legendary activist, academic and author Dennis Altman. Dennis is a political scientist, social commentator, essayist and novelist. who has written many other books, covering topics as broad as AIDS, US politics, queer refugees and asylum seekers, constitutional monarchies, as well as writing memoir and, even a crime novel, Death at the Sauna. and, importantly, Dennis’ new collection of essays Righting My World.

Dennis talks to Troy about his life, politics, racism, America, AIDS, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin – covering everything from queer and Jewish prejudice, to Agatha Christie and gay saunas!

Books Dennis recommends:
– Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
– The Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
– Marlo by Jay Carmichael
– Losing Face by George Haddad:
– Host City by David Owen Kell
– Modern Marriage by Filip Vukasin

You can find Dennis on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dennis.altman.50/ and at Monash University Press at https://publishing.monash.edu/authors/dennis-altman/
Hosted by Troy Hunter who you can find on Insta @troyhunterwriter and at http://www.troyhuntwriter.com
Troy is the author of Gus and the Missing Boy and Gus and the Burning Stones
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