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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at

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53:30

Tom Stevenson & Tariq Ali: Someone Else's Empire

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/17

In Someone Else's Empire Tom Stevenson, a contributing editor at the LRB, dispels the potent myth of Britain as a global player punching above its weight on the world stage, arguing instead that its foreign policy has for a long time been in thrall to the wishes and interests of the United States.He talks about his book with writer, filmmaker, publisher and activist Tariq Ali. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:41

Mathias Enard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/10

Mathias Enard’s latest novel, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild takes us to the marshlands of South West France in a Rabelaisian celebration of life, love and death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez writes of him ‘Every novel by Mathias Enard reminds me of the reasons why I read fiction. He is ambitious, erudite, full of life, and a wonderful stylist to boot. He is one of the great novelists of our time.' He reads from his book and talks about it with Chris Power. Hosted on Acast. See

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McKenzie Wark & Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money,...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/03

In her most personal book to date, Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso) McKenzie Wark writes with her characteristic acuity about gender transition, communism, history, art, memory and the journey of discovering who one really wants to be.Wark talks about that journey with Lauren John Joseph, author of At Certain Points We Touch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:45

Isabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester: Corey Fah Does...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/12/27

‘Reading Waidner is like plugging into an electric socket of language and ideas’ wrote Jude Cook in the Guardian, praising Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold. Waidner reads from their latest novel Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, and talks about it with academic, performer and activist Diarmuid Hester, whose forthcoming book Nothing Ever Just Disappears Waidner has described as ‘insightful, delightful, and enlightening: an essential entrant into the queer canon.’ Hosted on Acast. See

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53:37

Amy Acre & Joelle Taylor: Mothersong

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/12/20

Poet and editor of Bad Betty Press Amy Acre reads from and talks about her debut collection Mothersong (Bloomsbury). Poignant and powerful, her work explores motherhood, grief, trauma, recovery and what it means to be a female artist. She's in conversation with Joelle Taylor, author of the prize-winning poetry collection C+nto (Telegram), who has written of Mothersong: ‘Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this.’ Hosted on

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1:00:51

Zadie Smith & Adam Thirlwell: The Fraud/The Future...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/12/13

Historical fiction is having a moment, and at the forefront are two of 2023’s most hotly anticipated novels: Zadie Smith’sThe Fraud and Adam Thirlwell’sThe Future Future. Smith and Thirlwell discussed their approaches to fiction and the ways in which prose can ‘sandblast the dust off history’, as Polly Stenham writes aboutThe Future Future.Buy The Fraud: lrb.me/thefraudBuy The Future Future: https://lrb.me/thefuturefutureFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See

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1:08:11

Danny Dorling & Leo Hollis: Shattered Nation

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/12/06

In Shattered Nation, Oxford Professor of Geography Danny Dorling meticulously documents how Britain over the last 40 years has been transformed by incompetence, avarice and short-termism from one of the world’s leading economies, with widely admired public services, into Europe’s most unequal society, afflicted by staggering levels of deprivation and social division. Dorling was joined in conversation by Leo Hollis, author of The Stones of London and Inheritance.Buy Shattered Nation from the

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56:36

Kehinde Andrews & Afua Hirsch: The Psychosis of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/11/29

Kehinde Andrews continues the work he began in The New Age of Empire with The Psychosis of Whiteness (Allen Lane), a wry and piercing guide to retaining sanity in a racist world, which Ron Ramdin has described as ‘a remarkable and enriching work which shines a light on many dark places’. He discussed the book with journalist and writer Afua Hirsch, whose own Decolonising My Body is forthcoming from Square Peg in October. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:04:24

Terrance Hayes and Nick Laird

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/11/22

Terrance Hayes and Nick Laird read from and talk about their recent books So to Speak (Penguin) and Up Late (Faber). Hayes, describing Laird, praises his ‘truth-telling that’s political, existential and above all, emotional’; Laird writing about Hayes notes that his invention ‘allows his poetry to house almost anything, from the political to the sensual, from a magic goat to a talking cat’. Join us to celebrate two of the year’s most hotly anticipated collections.The episode starts with Laird

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49:36

Ian Nairn: Modern Buildings in London

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/11/15

Ian Nairn’s Modern Buildings in London was first published in 1964 and now appears, 40 years after his death, in a new edition from Notting Hill with an introduction by Travis Elborough, ‘one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians’ according to the Guardian.Elborough was joined by architectural historian Gillian Darley and architect Charles Holland to discuss Nairn’s life, work and enduring legacy.For more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a copy of Modern Buildings in London:

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1:00:35

Helen Macdonald, Sin Blaché & Isabel Waidner: Prophet

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/11/08

Helen Macdonald (H is for Hawk) has collaborated with musician and writer Sin Blaché to write a dazzling science fiction debut. Author Paraic O’Donnell describes Prophet (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a hyperkinetic headrush of a novel that proves its organic bona fides by getting you drunk with ideas before casually and cataclysmically breaking your heart.’Macdonald and Blaché were at the shop to reading from and talking about their book with Isabel Waidner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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59:17

Adam Mars-Jones & Leo Robson: Caret

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/11/01

Caret continues the adventures of the irrepressible John Cromer, begun in Pilcrow (2008) and continued in Cedilla (2011) – part of Adam Mars-Jones’ ‘semi-infinite’ novel series, praised by one reviewer as ‘a genuine, almost miraculous oddity’. Mars-Jones was in conversation with the journalist and critic Leo Robson.Buy Caret: lrb.me/caretpodMore events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:33

Lauren Elkin & Vanessa Peterson: Art Monsters

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/10/25

For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body, calling attention to a radical heritage of feminist work that not only reacts

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54:59

Jeremy Deller & Michael Bracewell: Art is Magic

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/10/18

A holistic and revealing account of the inspirations, passions and practices of one of the country’s foremost contemporary artists, Art is Magic finds Jeremy Deller reflecting on the entirety of his career, his life and his art. Deller was joined in conversation with writer Michael Bracewell, author of Unfinished Business.Find more events at the London Review Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a copy of Art is Magic: lrb.me/dellerpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:20

Tessa Hadley & Geoff Dyer: After the Funeral

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/10/11

In Tessa Hadley’s new collection, After the Funeral (Jonathan Cape), small events have huge consequences. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. Hadley was in conversation with Geoff Dyer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:13

New Faber Poetry

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/10/04

Four Faber poets will join us to read from their recent collections.Describing Declan Ryan's long-awaited debut, Crisis Actor, Liz Berry called it ‘elegant and heartaching’. Maggie Millner‘s Couplets, also a debut, is a novel in verse, a unique repurposing of the 18th century rhyming couplet into a thrilling story of queer desire. Hannah Sullivan’s follow-up to her T.S. Eliot Prize-winning Three Poems, Was it For This, also consists of three long poems, on subjects ranging from London and the

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59:15

Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole & Jon Day: The Allotment

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/09/27

Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole and Jon Day discuss Colin Ward and David Crouch's 1988 classic of social and oral historyThe Allotment, long out of print but finally reissued by the indefatigable Little Toller Books.Upcoming events at the bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:25

Scratch Books Presents: Saba Sams & Jem Calder

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/09/20

Two 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.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy Reward System: lrb.me/rewardsystemBuy Send Nudes: lrb.me/sendnudes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:11

Amber Husain & Rebecca May Johnson: Meat Love

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/09/13

Meat 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

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53:15

Ian Penman & Adam Mars-Jones: Fassbinder Thousands of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/09/06

Melodrama, 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

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