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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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47:47

Will Harris & Rachael Allen: RENDANG

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/02/12

Will Harris reads from his debut collection RENDANG, alongside poet and editor Rachael Allen.Find out about upcoming events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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51:08

Samantha Harvey and Tessa Hadley: The Shapeless Unease

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/02/05

The writer Samantha Harvey has won wide acclaim and a devoted following for her novels, most recently The Western Wind, set in mediavel Somerset. In her latest book The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (Cape) she turns to philosophical memoir, with an account of a bout of insomnia that afflicted her from out of the blue, and led her to re-examine many of her assumptions about life, about writing, and about the human mind.She was in conversation about her work with novelist Tessa Hadley, who

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48:25

Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/01/29

In the period between the wars nearby Mecklenburgh Square was home to many artists, writers and radicals. In a stunning work of rediscovery Francesca Wade focuses on five remarkable women who lived there: the modernist poet and visionary H.D; crime writer and translator of Dante Dorothy L. Sayers; classicist Jane Harrison; economic historian Eileen Power; and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. Co-editor of theWhite Review, Francesca Wade’s articles have appeared in theLRB,TLS,Financial

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56:53

Alexander Zevin and Tariq Ali: Liberalism at Large

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/01/22

Alexander Zevin'sLiberalism at Large(Verso) is the first critical biography of theEconomistnewspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless – and internationally influential – champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world.But what exactly is liberalism, and how has its message evolved?Zevin presents a history of liberalism on the move, confronting the challenges thatclassical doctrine left unresolved – the rise of democracy, the expansion of empire, the ascendancyof finance – holding a

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58:16

Rachel Cusk & Chris Power: Coventry

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/01/15

The Observer called Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy ‘a landmark in twenty-first century English literature, the culmination of an artist’s unshakeable efforts to forge her own path’. The essays in her latest book Coventry explore other writers who forged their own path – among them Natalia Ginzburg, Olivia Manning and D.H. Lawrence – and wider themes political, personal and ethical. The discussion focussed on the themes that she has explored in her impressive body of work to date: the thinking and

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1:04:34

Benjamin Moser and Lara Feigel on Susan Sontag

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/01/08

One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag’s writing – on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism, Fascism, Freudianism, Communism and Americanism – forms an indispensable guide to our modern world. Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life is the first biography based on exclusive access to her restricted archive, providing fascinating insights into both the public myth and private life of an endlessly complex individual. Moser

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57:20

Stephen Hough and James Jolly: Rough Ideas

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/12/24

Long regarded as one of the world’s leading pianists, Stephen Hough is also a fine and perceptive writer, whose first novel was published last year. Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More (Faber) brings together around 200 of his short essays, many of which began as notes made ‘during that dead time on the road’ that is the lot of the international performer – at airports, on planes and in hotel rooms. In these ‘jottings’, Hough ranges widely over all aspects of music and musical life, as well

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1:06:12

Astra Taylor and David Graeber: Democracy May Not...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/12/18

In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions’ (Naomi Klein) – argues that democracy is not just in crisis, but that real democracy, inclusive and egalitarian, has never existed. Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Verso) aims to re-examine what we mean by democracy, what we want from it, and understand why it is so hard to realise. Taylor was in conversation with

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56:04

Diane Williams and Lara Pawson: Collected Stories

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/12/11

Diane Williams’s short (most of them very short) stories have been captivating literary audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for the last three decades. Ben Marcus, in his introduction to The Collected Stories, has described them as ‘fictions of perfect strangeness’, adding that they ‘prize enigma and the uncanny above all else.’ Williams read from her work, and was in conversation with Lara Pawson, formerly the BBC’s correspondent in Angola and author of This is the Place to Be (CB Editions)

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59:12

Celia Paul and Catherine Lampert: Self-Portrait

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/12/04

Celia Paul, born in India in 1959 and now resident in Bloomsbury is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Following a passionate affair with painter Lucian Freud and figuring in several of his canvases she emerged as an immensely talented painter, initially focussing on intimate depictions of family life before more recently turning to the broader scale of landscape and sea-scape. Her memoir Self-Portrait (Jonathan Cape) is an invaluable first-hand account of

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52:53

This is Not Propaganda: Peter Pomerantsev with Marina...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/11/27

Something strange has happened to truth in the past few years. Politicians, marketeers, Twitterists and others seem to have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter if what they say is true as long as some people believe it (and even that doesn’t seem to matter all that much sometimes). In his latest book This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Faber) intrepid investigative reporter Peter Pomerantsev travels the world, from China to Russia to Syria to the Balkans and to

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1:01:20

Saidiya Hartman and Lola Olufemi: Wayward Lives,...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/11/20

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the first emancipated generation of black women in the USA were obliged, sometimes enabled and often hindered in creating new ways of living after the abolition of slavery. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Profile), Professor Saidiya Hartman tells the inspiring and surprising stories of these pioneers, whose discoveries about how to be in the world have been followed and emulated by people, black, white, gay, straight, cis, trans and other, ever since

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58:40

Jorge Galán and Mark Dowd: November

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/11/13

Jorge Galán’s extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in an English translation by Jason Wilson as November, recounts the horrifying murder of six Jesuit priests and two women during the Salvadorian civil war in 1989, dealing both with its aftermath and the complex political situation from which the atrocity arose. Its original publication in Spanish led to death threats against the author which forced Galán to flee his native country. Galán was in conversation with journalist Mark

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52:51

Kathleen Jamie and Philip Hoare: Surfacing

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/11/07

In her latest book ‘Surfacing’ (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the mind. Her travels take her from Arctic Alaska to the sand dunes and machair of Scotland in a quest to discover what archaeology might tell us about the past, the present and the future. Her writing throughout is marked, as always, by an acute attention to the natural world. She was in conversation about her work with Philip Hoare, author of ‘Leviathan’ and

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1:09:04

LRB at 40: Jeremy Harding, Nikita Lalwani and Adam Shatz

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/11/05

Jeremy Harding and Adam Shatz discussed shared preoccupations including decolonisation and orientalism, Israel-Palestine, 20th-century music, and France, in conversation with the novelist Nikita Lalwani. This was the last in a series of events celebrating the LRB's 40th anniversary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/10/25

Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley discuss fictional representations of women’s everyday lives with the LRB’s Joanna Biggs, as part of a series of events celebration the LRB's 40th anniversary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:04

LRB at 40: William Davies and Katrina Forrester

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/10/22

On Wednesday 16 October, William Davies and Katrina Forrester discussed shared preoccupations including the subjects of their recent books, Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World and In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. This was part of a series of events celebrating the LRB's 40th anniversary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:19:05

LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/10/20

Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talk to the LRB's digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about their shared preoccupations with London, as written about in the London Review of Books. This was the first in a series of events celebrating the LRB's 40th anniversary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:04:58

Against Memoir: Michelle Tea and Juliet Jacques

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/10/15

In Against Memoir (And Other Stories), Michelle Tea takes us through the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America. Via a series of essays, addresses and fragments she reclaims Valerie Solanas as an absurdist, remembers the lives and deaths of the lesbian motorcycle gang HAGS and introduces us to activists at a trans protest camp. Tea was in conversation with writer Juliet Jacques. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:04:44

Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2019/10/08

Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later became the kernel of her acclaimed collection Say Something Back (Picador). The poem’s prose counterpart Time Lived, Without Its Flow was initially published in a small edition by Capsule Press but has now been made more readily available in a new edition, also from Picador. Riley was in conversation about her essay with the writer Max Porter, author of

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