038 - Michael Donkor

New Show: PageBreak

Hello everyone, happy new year!

As mentioned in our christmas episode, Papertrail is going on hiatus for a while, but do not fear! Alex has been working on a side project we wanted to share with you here first.

PageBreak explores the process of taking your work from first draft, to finished product, and the challenges along the way.

Listen on our website / Listen on Soundcloud

The show seeks to illuminate parts of the creative process which are often overlooked, and offer support and encouragement to writers at all stages of their practice.

If you enjoy the show, please let me know @AlexBlott, or by emailing [email protected]. This pilot is to gauge whether people are interested in the concept, so if you want to hear more, even a quick 👍 on Twitter is enough!

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the show!

Alex.

Papertrail Christmas Episode - 2019

Season's greetings, everyone! Join Sophie and Alex as they discuss some of their favourite books from the year, including a round-up of what they read for the show in 2019.

Papertrail is going on hiatus for the first half of 2019, but there are plenty of episodes in the back-catalogue so gorge yourself on them and we'll see you in the future for 'season 2'.

Happy holidays!

Sophie's Choices:

• Cassandra At The Wedding - Dorothy Baker
• Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
• Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo

From the show:

• Prater Violet - Christopher Isherwood
• This Is Not A Novel - David Markson
• Constellations - Sinéad Gleeson

Alex's Choices:

• Ombria in Shadow - Patricia A McKillip
• The Fisherman - John Langan
• Doggerland - Ben Smith

From the show:

• Homesick For Another World - Otessa Moshfegh
• Grief Is The Thing With Feathers - Max Porter
• The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

MUSIC BY: SCOTT GRATTON

045 - Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist. Her news reporting and literary work has appeared in Granta, the Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, and others. ‘I Choose Elena’ is her first book.

Lucia's Book Choices:

• Make It Scream Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
• Constellations: Reflections from life by Sinéad Gleeson
• The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

You can follow Lucia on twitter @LuciaOC_

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044 - Anna Sherman

Anna Sherman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and at Lincoln College, Oxford. The Bells of Old Tokyo is her first book.

Anna's Book Choices:

• Sanshiro by Natsume Sōseki

• Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

You can follow Anna on twitter @anna_charlbury

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043 - Season Butler

Season is a London and Berlin-based writer, performance artist and teacher, and an associate producer of the I'm With You art collective. She works as a dramaturg, mentor, sensitivity editor and workshop facilitator in Creative Writing, Performance Practice and Theory, and difference-consciousness training for the arts and heritage sector. Cygnet is her first novel.

Season's Book Choices:

• Island by Aldous Huxley
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

You can follow Season on twitter @season_butler

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