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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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51:10

K Patrick & Amelia Abraham: Mrs S

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/08/30

K Patrick’s Mrs. S is one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the year, having already secured for its author a spot on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. A queer romance set in the staffroom of an elite English boarding school, Lillian Fishman has described it as ‘a voluptuous performance in the art of withholding’. Patrick was in conversation with editor and writer Amelia Abraham, whose most recent book, Queer Intentions (Macmillan) was nominated for a Polari First Book award in

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51:16

M. John Harrison & Jennifer Hodgson: Wish I Was Here

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/08/23

M. 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

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59:06

Jacqueline Rose & James Butler: The Plague

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/08/16

In The Plague (Fitzcarraldo) Jacqueline Rose who has, in the words of Edward Said ‘no peer among critics of her generation’ uses the recent experience of the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the writings of Simone Weil to investigate how we might learn to live with death when it intrudes more closely than we might like on our lived experience. Rose was in conversation about life and death with James Butler, contributing editor at the LRB. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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59:16

Octavia Bright & Olivia Laing: This Ragged Grace

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/08/09

This 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.Find more

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53:52

Maureen McLane & Will Harris

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/08/02

Maureen 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

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47:50

Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/07/26

Novelist, 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.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a copy of August Blue: lrb.me/augustbluepod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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50:37

Devorah Baum & Hisham Matar: ‘On Marriage’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/07/19

Marriage has been an institution for centuries but why this highly contested and ancient practice has remained relevant to so many is by no means certain.What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we really doing when we say, 'I do'? In On Marriage (Hamish Hamilton), Devorah Baum draws on philosophy, film, fiction, comedy, psychoanalysis, music and poetry, to consider the marriage plot. Baum was in conversation with Hisham Matar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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59:07

Lynne Tillman & Michael Bracewell: Mothercare

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/07/12

When novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman’s mother became ill with the rare condition of normal pressure hydrocephalus she became entirely dependent on Lynne, her sisters and other caregivers, reversing the normal roles of parent and child. In Mothercare, Tillman describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and anxious eleven years of caring for a sick parent. Tillman was joined by Michael Bracewell, author of Unfinished Business.Find more events at the Bookshop website:

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1:03:33

Claudia Rankine & Nicola Rollock: Plot

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/07/05

Claudia Rankine’s Plot, an early work published for the first time in the UK this month, is a meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. It is a genre-defying text, a collection of fragments, dreams and conversations with all of the hallmarks of Rankine’s subsequent work, Citizen, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Just Us.Rankine will be in discussion with Nicola Rollock, author of The Racial Code. Hosted on Acast. See

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57:14

Amy Key & Megan Nolan: Arrangements in Blue

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/06/28

Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Amy Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life lived completely by, and for, oneself. Joined by Megan Nolan, the author of Acts of Desperation, Key discussed the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodRead Arrangements in Blue: lrb.me/amykeyblue Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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59:23

Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/06/21

A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo Editions) is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo. ‘Polly Barton is a brilliant, learned and daring writer,’ writes Joanna Kavenna, author of ZED. She was in conversation, brilliantly, learnedly and daringly, with Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions (Picador). Hosted

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1:04:01

Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/06/14

In Revolutionary Spring (Allen Lane), a series of brilliant set-pieces, pre-eminent European historian Christopher Clark brings back to our attention the extraordinary events of the Spring of 1848. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest to Berlin to Rome to Palermo, a whole continent was embroiled in struggle, hope, revolutionary fervour and ultimately reaction. Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, Sir Christopher will be in conversation with Katja Hoyer, a visiting Research Fellow

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1:04:10

Nicole Flattery & Claire-Louise Bennett: Nothing Special

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/06/07

New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment, an alcoholic mother and her mother’s occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist for Andy Warhol, transcribing conversations with his friends and associates to provide the material for an unconventional novel. A mordantly funny investigation of celebrity, obsession, womanhood and sexuality, Nothing Special (Bloomsbury) is itself an unconventional debut novel, following on from Flattery’s acclaimed short story collection Show Them a

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53:38

Brenda Shaughnessy & Amy Key: Liquid Flesh

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/05/31

Brenda Shaughnessy’s Liquid Flesh (Bloodaxe) gathers together poems from across her first five collections, as thrilling and unpredictable as any contemporary American poet. Writing about her work in the Boston Review, Richard Howard says that ‘when anything is as fresh as this diction, as free as these associations, as fraught as these passions, it is not descriptions or definitions which are wanted but the thing itself, the new words in new places, the necessary instigations’. Brenda Shaughnessy

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1:02:33

Ruth Padell and Sean Borodale: Watershed

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/05/24

In Ruth Padel’s latest pamphlet, Watershed, the poet reflects on the natural world, on water, and on the psychology of denialism, particularly where it concerns the climate crisis. Padel was joined in reading and conversation by Sean Borodale, whose latest pamphlet is Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a signed copy of Watershed: lrb.me/watershedbookOr a copy of Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath...: lrb.me/plathbeebook Hosted on Acast. See

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55:02

Don Paterson & Declan Ryan: Toy Fights

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/05/17

In Toy Fights poet Don Paterson recounts his childhood in working-class Dundee. This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored. ‘A tremendously engaging memoir’ writes William Boyd, ‘seasoned with Don

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57:33

Ian Patterson & Keston Sutherland: Shell Vestige...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/05/10

Ian Patterson, in both poetry and prose, revels in language, its possibilities, absurdities and contradictions. He joined fellow poet Keston Sutherland for conversation at the Bookshop, and to read from and present his latest collection Shell Vestige Disputed.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy Shell Vestige Disputed: lrb.me/ianpattersonpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:33

Blake Morrison & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Two Sisters

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/05/03

30 years after he reinvented the family memoir with And When Did You Last See Your Father? poet, critic and novelist Blake Morrison returns to the subject of his family in Two Sisters(The Borough Press) which reflects on the recent deaths of his two sisters as well as on the often fraught relationships of siblings in history and literature.Morrison was in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Everyone is Still Alive (Phoenix). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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47:25

Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Cursed Bread

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/04/26

Based on the true story of an unsolved mystery, Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel, Cursed Bread (Hamish Hamilton), centres on a small village community upturned by the arrival of a glamourous couple. Jo Hamya calls the book‘sensuous and haunted, like Madame Bovary reworked as a ghost story’. Mackintosh was in conversation with Rebecca Watson, author of Little Scratch (Faber). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:13:23

Brian Dillon & Jennifer Higgie: Affinities

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2023/04/19

In Affinities, aseries of linked essays, Brian Dillon investigates what it might mean for a thing to be like something else, and what it might mean for things to be connected even when they are nothing like one another. Currently Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London, Dillon’s writing is always surprising, and revelatory. Expect both revelations and surprises.Dillon was joined in conversation by the writer Jennifer Higgie, whose latest book isThe Other Side: A Journey

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