#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Chris Flynn’s extraordinary book Mammoth scrutinises humanity’s role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope. Discover why Chris chose a long-extinct animal to narrate this ambitious (mostly true) story about how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be offered for sale in 2017.
#Artists
Chris Flynn
Chris Flynn is the author of Mammoth (UQP 2020), The Glass Kingdom and A Tiger in Eden, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Age, The Australian, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, Smith Journal, The Big Issue, Monster Children, McSweeney’s and many other publications. He has conducted interviews for The Paris Review and is a regular presenter at literary festivals across Australia. Chris lives on Phillip Island, next to a penguin sanctuary.
Tegan Taylor
Tegan Taylor is co-host of the ABC’s multi-award-winning Coronacast and a health and science journalist in the ABC Science Unit, where she reports on topics from health fads to moonquakes and, yes, coronavirus. She’s a regular on ABC Radio National’s Health Report, and has been known to pop up on RN Life Matters, Triple J and in the Best of Australian Science Writing. In 2020, Coronacast won a Walkley award and the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Tegan was previously a producer on the ABC's national digital newsdesk, a journalism lecturer at The University of Queensland and, long ago, a newspaper reporter.