Jennifer Down – whose first novel, Our Magic Hour, was commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – is a masterly stylist whose sharp eye and keen intellect has been compared to that of Helen Garner and Cate Kennedy. Join her as she discusses Pulse Points, her wrenching short-story collection that, in precise and beautiful prose, explores the lives of mourners, survivors and perpetrators in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow, droll suburbs.