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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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1:03:15

John Boughton and Owen Hatherley: Municipal Dreams

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/04/14

From this 2018 event: InMunicipal Dreams(Verso), John Boughton charts the often surprising story of council housing in Britain, from the slum clearances of the Victorian age through to the Grenfell Tower disaster. It’s a history packed with incident – with utopians, visionaries and charlatans, with visionary planners and corrupt officials – and Boughton combines it with an architectural tour of some of the best remaining examples, as well as some of the more ordinary places that millions of people

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1:05:22

Comic Timing: Holly Pester, Vahni Capildeo and...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/04/07

Holly Pester's debut collection,Comic Timing(Granta), is disorienting, radical and extremely funny; Pester has a background in sound art and performance, having worked with the Womens' Library, the BBC and the Wellcome Collection, and is an unmissable reader of her own work. She read fromComic Timingand was in conversation withVahni Capildeo, whose most recent collection isSkin Can Hold(Carcanet, 2019), and Rachael Allen, poetry editor at Granta and author ofKingdomland(Faber, 2019). Hosted on

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55:20

Paul Spooner and Rosemary Hill: Cabaret Mechanical...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/04/01

Having an engineer as a father and an art school education, Paul Spooner became, predictably, a school-teacher, then a lorry driver. A chance meeting with mechanical model-maker Peter Markey in Cornwall led him to discover his true métier – the almost extinct profession of automatist, or maker of automata. Since then he has been relentlessly making mechanical playthings, mostly of wood, some of them not, mostly small, some of them not, all of them intricately engineered, eccentrically beautiful and

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54:46

Patricia Lockwood and John Lanchester: No One Is...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/03/24

Patricia Lockwood was in conversation about her new book, No One Is Talking About This (and a lot else besides) with fellow LRB contributing editor, John Lanchester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:30

On Brigid Brophy: Bidisha, Terry Castle and Eley...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/03/17

Brigid Brophy (1929-95) was a fearlessly original novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarianism and prison reform. Her many acclaimed novels includeHackenfeller’s Ape,The King of a Rainy Country,Flesh,The Finishing Touch,In Transit, andThe Snow Ball– which Faber reissued at the end of last year – as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley and Ronald Firbank, among other subjects. She also wrote about Mozart for the LRB, and

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55:06

Lauren Oyler and Olivia Sudjic: Fake Accounts

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/03/10

Lauren Oyler was talking abou her first novel, Fake Accounts, with the writer Olivia Sudjic, who has described it as 'Savage and shrewd, destined to go viral. If the world does end soon I'll be glad that I read it'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:32

André Aciman and Brian Dillon: Homo Irrealis

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/03/02

André Aciman talked to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis (Faber and Faber), a collection of essays on subjects as diverse as Freud, W.G.Sebald, the films of Eric Rohmer and the cityscapes of Alexandria and St Petersburg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:28

‘The Lark Ascending’: Richard King and Luke Turner

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/02/24

In The Lark Ascending(Faber) Richard King, author ofOriginal RockersandHow Soon is Now?, explores how Britain's history and identity have been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature. From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass,The Lark Ascendinglistens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to chart a new and

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53:47

Simon Winder and Adam Phillips: ‘Lotharingia’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/02/17

Following on from his bestselling and hugely entertainingGermaniaandDanubia,Simon Winder continues his idiosyncratic journey through Europe’s past withLotharingia(Picador). Now almost forgotten, Lotharingia arose from the ashes of the Carolingian Empire and stretched from the North Sea coasts of what is now the Netherlands all the way to the Alps, encompassing myriad languages and nationalities. Despite its disappearance and ensuing obscurity Lotharingia, Winder shows, has exercised a surprising and

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52:52

Hal Foster and Mark Godfrey: On Richard Serra

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/02/10

In his book Conversations About Sculpture (Yale) art historian Hal Foster recapitulates the discussions he has had, over a period of two decades, with the legendary minimalist sculptor Richard Serra. Professor Foster, a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, was in discussion about his book, and about Serra's extraordinary work, with Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:19:21

Brecht’s War Primer: Oliver Chanarin, Tom Kuhn &...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/02/03

From this 2017 event: Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, theatre director and refugee, was a passionate critic of fascism and war. During World War Two, already many years into his exile from Nazi Germany, Brecht started creating what he called ‘photo-epigrams’ to create a singular visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. As his family fled from the Nazis, 'changing countries more often than our shoes,' Brecht took photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and added short

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48:41

Dana Spiotta and Alex Clark: Innocents and Others

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/01/27

Dana Spiotta was reading from her novel Innocents and Others, and talking about her work with with journalist and critic Alex Clark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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51:01

Anne Michaels and Bidisha: The Necessary Word

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/01/20

From this 2017 event, Canadian poet and novelist Anne MIchaels, author of the multi-award winning fictionFugitive Pieces, 'the most important book I have read for forty years' (John Berger), presents two new titles.Infinite Gradation(House Sparrow Press), her first volume of non-fiction, is an astonishing meditation on the moral, emotional and philosophical implications of language and the creative act.All We Saw(Bloomsbury), Anne's latest collection of poetry, continues her mesmerising and lyrical

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1:05:53

Richard Sennett and Anna Minton: ‘Building and Dwelling’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/01/13

Rich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before -Building and Dwelling(Allen Lane) draws on Richard Sennett's deep learning and intimate engagement with city life to form a bold and original vision for the future of cities. Sennett was in conversation with Anna Minton, author ofBig Capital(Penguin). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:00:41

In the Dark Room: Brian Dillon and Sophie Ratcliffe

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2021/01/06

In this event from 2018, Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine and author of several books of essays, fiction, history and art criticism, talked about his first book,In the Dark Room, published by Penguin in 2005 and now available again in a handsome new edition from Fitzcarraldo, with Sophie Ratcliffe, Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford and author ofOn Sympathy(Oxford, 2008). Exploring the intersections of grief and memory, in his own personal history and beyond, Dillon

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1:05:52

Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster: Estates

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/12/21

Lynsey Hanley's Estates, first published by Granta in 2008, has become over the past decade one of the key texts to analyse Britain's urban landscape in the post-War period. To mark a new edition of her seminal work, Hanley, a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New Statesman, was in conversation with fellow journalist Dawn Foster, who has written widely on housing and social issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:00:47

Essayism: Brian Dillon and Max Porter

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/12/16

In this event from June 2017, Brian Dillon talks to Max Porter about his latest book, Essayism (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Dillon has been fascinated by the essay form throughout his reading and writing life, and Essayism is at once a paean to this venerable and still vibrant genre, and a dazzling contemporary example of it. Porter is the author of the prize-winningGrief is the Thing with Feathers(Faber). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:06:12

Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/12/09

Russian twentieth-century poetry is one of the pinnacles of European literature and we still know little about it.This event includes readings from Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Maria Petrovykh, Varlam Shalamov (still better known for his prose) and the emigre poet Georgy Ivanov, one of the very greatest of all Russian lyric poets. Stephen Capus, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and James Womack read some of their translations included in the new Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. Hosted on Acast. See

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1:05:32

Scottish Spirits: Robin Robertson, Jen Hadfield and...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/12/02

As the nights close in, what could be better than to gather around the (virtual) hearth and consider multi-award winning poet Robin Robertson's shadow-wracked new collection,Grimoire(Picador).A grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits, and in Robertson's intense Celtic take, it tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology

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53:39

Daisy Lafarge and Rachael Allen: Life Without Air

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/11/25

Daisy Lafarge’sLife Without Air(Granta), following on the tails of her pamphletsunderstudies for airandcapriccio, is one of the mostly hotly-awaited debut collections of 2020. She read from the collection, and was in conversation about it with Rachael Allen, author ofKingdomland(Faber) and Lafarge’s editor at Granta. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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