Feature writer Trent Dalton: "They will size you up, and open that friggin door, and that's a beautiful trust exercise."

Summary: Media Diarist Stephen Brook interviews The Weekend Australian Magazine staff writer Trent Dalton, discussing the intense emotional attachment he forms with the people he's interviewing. Dalton's new book Boy Swallows Universe is a novel influenced by his childhood in Brisbane growing up on the wrong side of the tracks which led to his observational feature writing.