In this week's episode, we interview Jordan Prosser, a writer, filmmaker and performer based in Naarm. In 2022, he won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for Eleuterio Cabrera’s Beautiful Game, accessible on the Meanjin website, which is how we came to read and discuss it on Strange Currencies just a few months ago. His debut novel, Big Time, was released in July of last year, and is described as “a rollicking ride told by a master storyteller” in The Age. In Connor's view, the plot of the book could be summarised as Lester Bangs being handed a small vial of psychoactive drugs and parachuted into the setting of Brave New World or Slaughterhouse Five!