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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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1:00:43

Owen Hatherley and Ash Sarkar: Red Metropolis

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/11/18

London, the Capital of world capitalism, a centre of global finance and a place of immense wealth and privilege, has an often unacknowledged red underbelly, stretching from Herbert Morrison in the 1930s to Sadiq Khan in the 2020s. InRed Metropolis(Repeater),Tribuneculture editor and historian Owen Hatherley looks back at that tradition, and argues that a socialist, democratic, pluralist city could become a beacon of hope for the whole country and beyond. Hatherley is in conversation with Novara

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52:19

‘This Mournable Body’: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Sara...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/11/11

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga presented her latest novel, the Booker-shortlistedThis Mournable Body(Faber). The third in a trilogy which began withNervous Conditionsand continued withThe Book of Not,This Mournable Bodytells the ongoing story of Tambudzai and her struggles with patriarchy and the legacy of colonialism as she tries to make her way, on her own terms, in 1990s Harare. Dangarembga has for many years been as involved in politics as in literature and film

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55:51

Life With a Capital L: Geoff Dyer and Frances Wilson...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/11/04

In our event from 16 July 2019, Geoff Dyer talks to Frances Wilson about D.H. Lawrence. Dyer'sOut of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has editeda selection of Lawrence's essaysfor Penguin. Subjects covered in this freewheeling volume include art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains and,

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47:55

Andrew Motion and Alan Hollinghurst: Essex Clay

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/10/28

On publication of Andrew Motion's new book of poetry, Essex Clay, he joined Alan Hollinghurst in conversation at St George's Bloomsbury. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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49:16

Brian Dillon and Olivia Laing: ‘Suppose a Sentence’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/10/21

Writer and critic Brian Dillon’s latest bookSuppose a Sentence(Fitzcarraldo) is a series of essays, each of them taking as its pretext a single sentence drawn from literature. What emerges is a dazzling experiment in criticism, a personal and at times polemical investigation of style, meaning and sense. Dillon was in conversation about his work with Olivia Laing, author ofFunny WeatherandCrudo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:29

John Lanchester and Sam Kinchin-Smith: Reality and...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/10/14

Novelist, memoirist, essayist and contributing editor to the LRBJohn Lanchestersets out to chill you to the virtual bone with his first ever collection of short fictionReality and Other Stories(Faber). As if modern life weren’t unsettling enough, Lanchester makes it even more so with tales of haunted mobile phones, selfie sticks with demonic powers and other stories of technology gone horribly, horribly wrong in this retread of M.R. James for the Zoom generation.As we prepare for what might be the

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57:48

European Union Prize for Literature: Sunjeev Sahota,...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/10/07

The European Union Prize for Literature aims to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature and to promote the circulation of literature beyond national and linguistic borders. To discuss the prize, the state of European literature and Britain's place in the post-Brexit international literary community, we welcomed two past winners: Sunjeev Sahota, who won in 2017 for his Man Booker shortlisted novel The Year of Runaways; and 2014 winner Evie Wyld,

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54:10

Last Stories: Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee, Di Speirs &...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/09/30

In celebration of the life, work and legacy of William Trevor, one of the giants of modern Irish fiction, authors Salley Vickers, Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee and BBC Radio 4 Books Editor Di Speirs read from and talked about their favourites of his novels and short fiction, to mark the publication ofLast Stories(Viking). Trevor, who died in 2016, won the Whitbread prize three times, was five times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and in 2014 was made Saoi by Aosdána, Ireland’s most prestigious

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56:03

Carcanet New Poetries VII

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/09/23

We were joined by Toby Litt, Helen Charman, Lisa Kelly and Mary Jean Chan, four of the poets featured in Carcanet’sNew Poetries VII. From the first anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. TheNew Poetriesanthologies have never sought to identify a school, much less a generation: the poets included employ a wide range of styles, forms and approaches, and

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43:37

Andrew O’Hagan and Edmund Gordon: Mayflies

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/09/16

Three-times Booker-nominated author and LRB editor-at-large Andrew O’Hagan’slatest novelcentres on the powerful friendship between James and Tully, fuelled by teenage rebellion and the unforgettable soundtrack of late 80s British music. Stretching over three decades,Mayfliesis a captivating study of adolescence becoming adulthood, with all the shades of light and darkness that has made O’Hagan one of the most respected writers of his generation.O’Hagan was in conversation with Edmund Gordon,

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48:47

Akwaeke Emezi and Louisa Joyner: The Death of Vivek Oji

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/09/09

Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novelFreshwaterwas published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book wasPet, a novel for young adults that raised difficult and pertinent questions about cultures of denial, and was described as ‘beautiful and genre-expanding’ in theNew York Times. To mark the publication of their second novel for adultsThe Death of Vivek Oji, a heart-wrenching tale of one family’s

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58:00

Kirsty Gunn and Max Porter: Caroline’s Bikini

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/09/02

Novelist and essayist Kirsty Gunn’s latest novelCaroline’s Bikiniis a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that of unrequited love. In a series of conversations in West London bars, Gunn unravels the passion of financier Evan Gordonstone for the glamorous Caroline Beresford, an unravelling that brings Gordonstone to the brink of destruction. Kirsty Gunn is the author of six works of fiction and several essay collections, and currently teaches creative writing at

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1:00:50

Chantal Mouffe and John Trickett: For a Left Populism

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/08/26

Leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today: it is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action — the people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:11

Maureen N. McLane and Sarah Howe

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/08/19

Across five collections, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has won admirers for its distinctive mix of the humourous and the cerebral, a voice theLondon Review of Booksdescribed as ‘Somewhere between teenage fangirl and Wordsworth professor.’ The best of those five collections is now gathered in her first selected,What I'm Looking For(Penguin).McLane was at the shop to read from and discuss her work with poet and critic Sarah Howe, whose collectionLoop of Jadewon the 2015 T.S. Eliot prize. Hosted on Acast

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1:01:49

Javier Cercas and Gaby Wood: ‘Lord of All the Dead’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/08/12

‘This past is a dimension of the present, without which the present is mutilated.’InLord of all the Dead, Javier Cercas plunges back into his family history, revisiting Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to discover the truth about his ancestor Manuel Mena, who died fighting on the Francoist side at the Battle of the Ebro. Who are we to judge the dead? How can we reconcile national and family history, the political and the domestic?Cercas was in conversation with Gaby Wood,

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1:24:50

To Leave and to Be Left Behind: Five Dials launch...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/08/05

Five Dials 57, ‘To Leave and to Be Left Behind’, explores the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us. Guest-edited by Sophie Mackintosh, it brings together a range of playful, intimate and risk-taking voices from across contemporary fiction and poetry. To celebrate the launch of this special issue, Sophie was joined in conversation by three of the magazine’s contributors – Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler. Hosted on Acast. See

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1:13:07

Richard McGuire and Dave McKean: Home

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/07/29

In conversation with Dave McKean, Richard McGuire talks about his graphic novel, Here, a book-length expansion of his groundbreaking 1989 sequence of the same name, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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34:56

Chloe Diski and Deborah Friedell on Jenny Diski

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/07/23

To celebrate the publication of Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?, a new selection of Jenny Diski's LRB essays, chosen and introduced by Mary-Kay Wilmers, Deborah Friedell talked to Chloe Diski about Jenny's life and work.You can order Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? from us here: https://lrb.me/order Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:52

Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques and Jennifer Hodgson:...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/07/16

Two of Ann Quin’s admirers, novelist and essayist Deborah Levy and writer and critic Juliet Jacques, will be joined in conversation about her life and work by Jennifer Hodgson, editor ofThe Unmapped Country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:25

Morgan Parker and Georgina Lawton: ‘Magical Negro’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/07/15

There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé(Corsair) won Morgan Parker a wide UK readership;Magical Negrotakes and expands on the achievement of that first collection, dealing as it does with objectification, loneliness, stereotyping and the stubbornness of ancestral trauma. Danez Smith has called Parker ‘one of this generation’s best minds, able to hold herself and her world, which includes all of us, up to impossible lights’. Parker read fromMagical Negro, and was in conversation with Georgina

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