BANNED BOOK CLUB WITH BENJAMIN LAW
Get between the covers of a book deemed too dangerous to publish with literary aficionado Benjamin Law and writer and critic James Bradley. Come prepared to dive into Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. Unpack the book’s preconceptions and dish out your hottest takes over lunch with a small group of fellow book lovers.
Your ticket includes a two-course set menu lunch and accompanying beverages at Attenzione! Food & Wine.
Presented in partnership with The Book Showdown.
Location:
Attenzione! Food & Wine
180 Redfern St
Redfern, Sydney 2016
James Bradley
James Bradley is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade, Ghost Species and Landfall, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, which won the 2025 NSW Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction, a Gold Medal in the 2025 Nautilus Awards, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster. He is the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2013), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). An AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, he is co-executive producer and co-writer of the Netflix comedy-drama Wellmania (2023), playwright of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Torch the Place (2020) and Dying: A Memoir (2025), and creator of the award-winning SBS series The Family Law (2016–2019). As a broadcaster, he has hosted ABC TV documentary Waltzing the Dragon and co-hosted ABC Radio’s Stop Everything.
Image credit: Esther Linder
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