This week on Cool Story with Bri & Bridie we're talking about: Bridie's brush with fame; Bridie and Bri discuss whether The Group by Mary McCarthy is the 'origin story' of Sex and The City, plus Bridie raves about an extraordinary memoir by Octavia Bright (host of the Literary Friction Podcast) entitled This Ragged Grace; a discussion about the discovery of Hadrian's Event Calendar from AD128 leads to a conversation around digital access, burning diaries, and data privacy; the devastating effects of both illegal and legal logging in Australia; and finally, the (potential) author's boycott of the Edinburgh book festival because of dirty funding money. Watch on YouTube here Show notes: https://www.newsweek.com/emperor-hadrian-secret-journeys-discovered-white-marble-slab-1809307 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Damnation-Spring/Ash-Davidson/9781982144418  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/12/the-government-wants-to-bulldoze-my-inheritance-800-year-old-sacred-trees https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/vandalism-sacred-birthing-tree-buangor-police-investigate/102726014 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/16/protest-tree-estimated-hundreds-of-years-old-cut-down-tasmania https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/authors-boycott-edinburgh-book-festival-sponsors-fossil-fuel-links  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/15/book-festivals-deserve-sponsors-not-boycotts   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.