{"id":314,"date":"2025-01-20T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:44:52","slug":"tome-tome-again-podcast-portable-curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/tome-tome-again-podcast-portable-curiosities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tome &amp; Tome Again Podcast: Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In episode 2 we get deep into Julie Koh&#8217;s brilliant collection of satirical short stories, <em>Portable Curiosities<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in 2016, <em>Portable Curiosities<\/em> is described as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A corporate lawyer feels increasingly disconnected from his job in a soulless 1200-storey skyscraper. And a one-dimensional yellow man steps out from a cinema screen in the hope of leading a three-dimensional life, but everyone around him is fixated only on the color of his skin. Welcome to\u00a0<em>Portable Curiosities<\/em>. In these dark and often fantastical stories, Julie Koh combines absurd humour with searing critiques on modern society, proving herself to be one of Australia\u2019s most original and daring young writers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the episode here:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Portable Curiosities\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=v9zn4-1655978-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 2 we get deep into Julie Koh&#8217;s brilliant collection of satirical short stories, Portable Curiosities! Published in 2016, Portable Curiosities is described as: &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,308],"tags":[313,54,325,310,318,322,323,311,309,321,324,67,312],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tome-tome-again-podcast","tag-apple-podcasts","tag-australian-author","tag-book-discussion","tag-books","tag-jess-gately","tag-julie-koh","tag-magic-realism","tag-podbean","tag-podcast","tag-portable-curiosities","tag-satire","tag-short-stories","tag-spotify","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}