London Review Bookshop Podcast
by London Review Bookshop
Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.
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Episodes
Scratch Books Presents: Saba Sams & Jem Calder
52m · PublishedTwo of Britain’s most exciting short story writers joined in conversation to celebrate the release of their highly-acclaimed debuts in paperback. Faber author Jem Calder and Edge Hill Prize winner Saba Sams read from and discussed their stories with Tom Conaghan, publisher of Scratch Books.
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Amber Husain & Rebecca May Johnson: Meat Love
56m · PublishedMeat Love, the latest book-length essay by Amber Husain (following on from 2021’s Replace Me), explores how meat-eating has become irretrievably enmeshed with capitalist desire, in what Sophie Lewis has described as ‘an exquisitely-crafted little hand grenade lobbed at the gentrification of the carnivorous mind’.
She is in conversation with Rebecca May Johnson, whose Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen (Pushkin, 2022) touches on many of the same revolutionary themes. Johnson is an essayist and critic, and senior editor at the online magazine Vittles.
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Ian Penman & Adam Mars-Jones: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
53m · PublishedMelodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution. Penman was joined in conversation by Adam Mars-Jones.
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K Patrick & Amelia Abraham: Mrs S
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M. John Harrison & Jennifer Hodgson: Wish I Was Here
51m · PublishedM. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, magical and literary realism. Wish I Was Here is his first work of memoir – an ‘anti-memoir’ – written in his mid-seventies with aphoristic daring and trademark originality and style, fresh after winning the Goldsmiths Prize in 2020 for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again. Harrison was joined in conversation with writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson.
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Jacqueline Rose & James Butler: The Plague
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Octavia Bright & Olivia Laing: This Ragged Grace
59m · PublishedThis Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia Bright’s journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s. Looking back over this time, each of the seven chapters explores the feelings and experiences of the corresponding year of her recovery, tracing the shift in emotion and understanding that comes with the deepening connection to this new way of life. Bright was joined in conversation by Olivia Laing, author of Everybody.
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Maureen McLane & Will Harris
53m · PublishedMaureen McLane’s poetry has been praised for its deftness, intelligence and grace under extreme pressure. Her new collection, the aptly named What You Want, draws on these strengths to produce something remarkable and new.
In a rare UK appearance, she reads from her work and talks to Will Harris, who also reads from his new collection Brother Poem (Granta). Harris has won the Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection (for his debut, 2019's RENDANG), and more importantly, the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pamphlet Pick of the Year for 2016.
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Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue
47m · PublishedNovelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy read from and spoke about her novelAugust Blue,a mesmerising story of how identities, coalesce, collide and collapse. She was joinedin conversation aboutAugust Bluewith the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, author ofThe Examined Life.
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Devorah Baum & Hisham Matar: ‘On Marriage’
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London Review Bookshop Podcast has 549 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 552:01:59. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 8th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 22nd, 2024 01:41.