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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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1:00:37

Rachel Kushner & Adam Thirlwell: Creation Lake

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/03/05

Described by Mick Herron as ‘seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall’, Rachel Kushner’s fourth novelCreation Lake(Cape) reaffirms her position as one of America’s most exciting and accomplished writers of fiction. In a reimagining of the spy novel for an age of ecological crisis, Kushner leads us to a remote Neanderthal cave in rural France where the enigmatic Bruno Lacombe leads his followers in a radical project to reject and undermine the modern world. ‘I've never read anything like it’,

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1:08:32

Iona Heath & Sally Potter: John Berger – Ways of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/02/26

In ‘a wonderful book about looking and learning’ (Gavin Francis) retired GP Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger’s work and friendship had on her working life as a doctor in a deprived London borough. Five decades of engagement with Berger’s work and twenty years of friendship with the man himself made her, she is convinced, a better doctor. Heath was in conversation about Berger’s legacy, for medicine and beyond, with film director and screenwriter Sally Potter, who wrote, on the

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1:08:30

Michelle Tea & Jeremy Atherton Lin: SLUTS

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/02/19

Taking us from the awkwardness of middle school to the transcendence of a sex club,SLUTS: Anthology(Cipher Press) presents a diverse collection of writing – fiction and non-fiction, pro and con, philosophical and compulsive – exploring the eternally controversial word. Whether an insult or badge of honour, an identity or a state of mind,SLUTSengages some of the hottest minds of the moment to riff on the subject, exploring the nature of desire and its cultural consequences.The anthology’s editor,

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57:49

Vigdis Hjorth & Lauren Oyler: If Only

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/02/12

If Only– first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund – is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorth’s masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one woman’s life by an ill-advised affair. Hjorth (whose other novels in English includeIs Mother Dead?,Will and TestamentandLong Live the Post Horn!) is in conversation about the novel with Lauren Oyler, whose own debut novel,Fake Accounts, was published in 2021, and whose essay collectionNo Judgementcame out

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1:00:15

Helen Charman & Lola Olufemi: Mother State

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2025/02/05

InMother State(Allen Lane),Helen Charman uses this provocative insight to write a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Women's Liberation and ending with austerity, the book follows mothers' fights for an alternative future. Here we see a world where motherhood is not a restrictive identity but a state of possibility. ‘Mother’ ceases to be an individual responsibility, and becomes an expansive collective term to organise under, for people of any gender, with or without

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54:25

Sarah Moss & Octavia Bright: My Good Bright Wolf

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2025/01/29

Best known for her novels – most recently, 2021’s The Fell – now Sarah Moss has turned her hand to life-writing. My Good Bright Wolf unflinchingly details her experience of girlhood and anorexia in prose described by Jan Carson as ‘part memoir, part confessional, part dark and feverish fairytale’. Moss was in conversation with Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:08:00

Abi Palmer & Zarina Muhammad: Slugs – A Manifesto

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2025/01/22

Why be a slug?Slugs: A Manifesto(Makina Books) explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic language, artist Abi Palmer considers the politics of space, iridescent queerness, and shapeshifting viscous ‘slug time’. In the face of a potential apocalypse,Slugs: A Manifestoenvisions a future where humanity becomes just a little more sluglike.Palmer was joined in conversation with Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube, co-author of the forthcomingPoor

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51:07

Sinéad Gleeson & Douglas Stuart: Hagstone

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/01/15

Inher first novelHagstone(Fourth Estate), Sinéad Gleeson – who has, in the words of Anne Enright, ‘changed the Irish literary landscape through her advocacy for the female voice’ – explores the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural world in the setting of a remote island housing a commune of women seeking refuge from the modern world.She was joined in discussion by Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, author ofShuggie BainandYoung Mungo.Find more events at the

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1:00:39

Catherine Lacey & Jen Calleja: Biography of X

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/01/08

In Catherine Lacey’s dystopian thriller, recently published in paperback by Granta, CM Lucca, widow of a recently deceased avant-garde artist, sets out to write a biography of the woman she idolised. Her quest leads her, through a maze of pseudonyms, half-truths and outright fabrications, on a journey into the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that seceded from the Union after the Second World War. Lacey, author of three previous novels and one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young American Novelists’,

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51:07

Yasmin Zaher & Sheena Patel: The Coin

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2025/01/01

Palestinian writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher’s debut novelThe Coin(Footnote Press) has been hailed as ‘already a masterpiece’ (Slavoj Žižek), ‘a filthy, elegant book’ (Raven Leilani) and ‘bonkers’ (Elif Batuman). A young Palestinian woman, wealthy but stateless and with no access to her wealth, finds her life and sense of self unravelling as she teaches underprivileged children at a New York middle school, gets involved in a money-making scheme selling Birkin bags and becomes unhealthily obsessed

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1:00:51

Eley Williams & So Mayer: Moderate to Poor,...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/12/25

‘There are very few writers with as clear and thrilling a love for the stuff of language as Eley Williams’, writes Jon McGregor. Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good revels in the same inventiveness and experimentation that made her debut collection of short stories, Attrib. and Other Stories, so beloved; courtroom artists, childhood crushes, scholarly annotators and editors of canned laughter take their place in a joyful panoply exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient

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1:06:55

Michael Longley & Declan Ryan: Ash Keys

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/12/18

Published to coincide with the poet’s 85th birthday,Ash Keys(Jonathan Cape) presents a new selection of Longley’s finest works. Born in Belfast in 1939, his verse inhabits the landscapes Ireland’s west, at the same time occupying a space within a distinctly European tradition, ranging freely across the continent's histories, tragedies and triumphs. ’One of the most perfect poets alive,’ writes Sebastian Barry. ‘There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the

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51:56

Ralf Webb & Philippa Snow: Strange Relations

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/12/11

Strange Relations (Sceptre) explores the crisis in mid-century masculinity through the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities. The nonfiction debut of Forward Prize-shortlisted poet Ralf Webb, it considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, John Cheever and James Baldwin, resisted damaging contemporary expectations around gender and sexuality. Will Tosh has described it as ‘wise, humane, hopeful and exquisitely written’

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56:16

Juliet Jacques & Orit Gat: The Woman in the Portrait

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/12/04

Juliet Jacques is one of the most electrifying short fiction writers working in the UK today;The Woman in the Portrait(Cipher) collects her published and unpublished fiction, work which Agata Pyzik has described as a ‘large canvas on which the pattern for a utopian socialist queer life might be inscribed’.Jacques was joined in conversation by the writer and art critic Orit Gat.Get the book: https://lrb.me/jacquesportaitpodFind more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast

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59:36

Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/11/27

Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece of exile and homecoming,Return to my Native Land– beautifully translated by John Berger – is now a Penguin Classic. To celebrate, Jason Allen-Paisant (who has written the introduction for the new edition) and Colin Grant discuss the poem. Allen-Paisant’s most recent poetry collection,Self-Portrait as Othello(Carcanet), won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Colin Grant is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary

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57:42

Hannah Regel & Emily LaBarge: The Last Sane Woman

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/11/20

In her first novelThe Last Sane Woman(Verso) poet Hannah Regel investigates the pains and pleasures of artistic practice carried out against the odds. While researching in a small archive dedicated to women’s art young graduate Nicola Long happens upon one half of a correspondence, conducted half a century before, written by a recently graduated ceramicist to a friend. As Nicola reads on she becomes obsessed with the parallels between her own life and that of the woman she encounters in the

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54:51

Will Burns & Ella Frears

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/11/13

Poets Ella Frears and Will Burns were at the shop to read from and talk about their new collections. Ella’s Goodlord, from Rough Trade Books, takes the form of a long, lyrical email to an estate agent, interrogating our obsession with ‘property’ with Frears’ characteristic humour and sharpness, while Will’s Natural Burial Ground (Corsair) is the second collection from a writer Max Porter has described as ‘a soulful English poet of the kind we don’t make enough of’. Hosted on Acast. See

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1:09:31

Constance Debré & Alice Blackhurst: Playboy

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/11/06

In her latest semi-autobiographical novelPlayboy(Tuskar Rock, translated by Holly James), leading French writer Constance Debré describes how a woman, at the age of 43, abandons her apartment, her marriage and her successful legal career to lead a new life as an out lesbian and a writer. In a series of short, sharp vignettes the narrator describes a series of meetings with lovers, with her father and with her son and ex-husband, exploding heteronormative assumptions about what it means to be queer

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1:04:04

Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi: Why Would Feminists Trust...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/10/30

Throughout its history feminism has had a troubled relationship with policing, torn between seeking its protection and attacking its ingrained sexist bias. InWhy Would Feminists Trust the Police?(Verso) Leah Cowan cuts a trenchant path through the debate, reminding us of the vibrant and creative alternatives envisioned by those who have long known the truth: the police aren't feminist, and the law does not keep women safe. She discusses the issue with feminist writer and scholar Lola Olufemi. Hosted

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53:50

Lauren Elkin & Octavia Bright: Scaffolding

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/10/23

In her debut novelScaffolding(Chatto) Lauren Elkin – ‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’, according to Deborah Levy – presents two couples occupying the same Paris apartment, five decades apart. Lauren Elkin’s previous works includeArt Monsters, a landmark study of women artists,Flâneuseand a translation of Simone de Beauvoir’sThe Inseparables. She was joined in conversation by writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright.Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspodGet the book:

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