Episode 3: Vicki Hastrich, Night Fishing & artistic cross-pollination

What does a writer do when a novel in progress seems to die under her pen? Keep pushing on? Throw it out and start a new one? Vicki Hastrich, author of the acclaimed NIGHT FISHING, did neither of those things. In her words, she ‘went fallow’ – she stopped making her own art, and instead spent time absorbing other people’s. In Episode 3 we’re looking at artistic cross-pollination – the way one art form can speak to and inspire another, completely different one. This conversation was recorded at Charlotte's home in inner Sydney, so you’ll hear some aircraft noise and bird squawks in the background (and listen out for Charlotte's bizarre spooneristic mispronunciation of the great Zane Grey's name! ).