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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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1:09:16

James Shapiro & Sarah Churchwell: The Playbook

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/10/16

The Federal Theatre Project, established as part of the New Deal in 1935 to provide employment opportunities for theatre professionals affected by the Great Depression, became the cornerstone of American radical drama, both on stage and on radio, throughout the late 1930s. Its staunchly political stance on labour and race relations and housing and health inequality proved popular with audiences, but less so with Congress which, in an atmosphere of growing anti-communist paranoia, withdrew the

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53:54

Anne Serre & Lucie Elven: A Leopard-Skin Hat

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/10/09

Anne Serre’s latest novel to appear in English, brilliantly translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson, was written in the aftermath of the death of the author’s younger sister, and recounts the tortured relationship between an unnamed narrator and his close childhood friend Fanny, a young woman suffering from profound psychological distress. Hailed inLe Pointas a 'masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance’,A Leopard-Skin Hat(Lolli Editions) is a bewildering rollercoaster of hope and

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54:46

Kate Young & Nicola Dinan: Experienced

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/10/02

In her debut novel Experienced (4th Estate) writer and cook Kate Young delves into the world of queer dating following, reluctant Bette on an odyssey of sexual encounters as she tries to catch up on the decade of fun she missed out on before coming out, always intending to return after the adventure to her true love Mei. ‘A fizzing rollercoaster of a romcom,’ writes Caroline O'Donoghue. ‘The sexiest book you'll read all year, and the most heartening’. Young read from her novel, and talked about it

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1:02:25

Lucy Sante & Juliet Jacques: I Heard Her Call My Name

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/09/25

Born in Belgium in 1954 to conservative, Catholic parents, Lucy Sante migrated to New York in the 1960s, where she became associated with the Bohemian artistic milieu of the city. After producing several highly acclaimed works of history such asLow LifeandThe Other Parisand translating Félix Fénéon’sfeuilletonsfor NYRB asNovels in Three Lines,she announced in 2021 that she was transitioning: ‘Yes, I’ve known since at least age 11 but probably earlier and yes, I suppressed and denied it for decades’,

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1:07:45

London Feeds Itself: Jonathan Nunn & Owen Hatherley

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/09/18

Born in the pandemic lockdown of 2020, when Britain’s restaurants had closed their doors, Jonathan Nunn founded the online newsletterVittles, which rapidly established itself as the premier platform for exploring food cultures in Britain and around the world. Out ofVittleswas bornLondon Feeds Itself, a fascinating collection of essays written at the intersections of food, architecture, history, and demography. First published by Open City in 2022,London Feeds Itselfnow appears in a new edition in

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59:23

Iain Sinclair & Xiaolu Guo: Pariah Genius

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/09/11

During the Covid lockdown Iain Sinclair took delivery of two large yellow boxes containing fresh prints of photographs by the master-chronicler of Soho John Deakin who died, obscure and penniless, in a Brighton hotel room in 1972. Sinclair, another master-chronicler of London’s hidden past, uses those and other images and memories – (‘an invaluable catalogue of artists and divas, actors, film producers, criminals and derelicts’) – to bring back to life the unique artistic milieu of Bohemian London

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1:07:45

CAConrad & Luke Roberts: Listen to the Golden...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/09/04

CAConrad is one of the most productive and inventive poets of their generation. Writing in theNew York Times, Tracey K. Smith described how Conrad’s poetry ‘invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious’ – a susceptibility fully evidenced in Conrad’s latest Penguin collection,Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return.Conrad is joined by Luke Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Modern

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56:23

Olivia Laing & Jon Day: The Garden Against Time

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/08/28

Drawing on her own experience restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, and moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’sParadise Lostto John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Olivia Laing’sThe Garden Against Timeinterrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. She was joined in conversation with writer, critic and frequent LRB contributor Jon Day.Get The Garden Against Time:

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55:36

Sarah Perry & Helen Macdonald: Enlightenment

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/08/21

At a Bethesda Baptist chapel two worshippers, separated in age by three decades, are drawn together by common interests, driven apart by divergent loves, before being reunited by the mysteries surrounding their small town. Francis Spufford describes Enlightenment (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a book in which everything is kindled into light by Sarah Perry’s rapt, luminous attention: friendship, betrayal, faith, astronomy, the drizzle on the streets of Essex and the heavens above them.’ Sarah Perry, author of

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1:02:44

Anne Michaels & Stephen Dillane: Held

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/08/14

Heldis Anne Michaels’ long-awaited new novel – following on from the 1996 classicFugitive Piecesand 2009’sThe Winter Vault– exploring, in the words of Margaret Atwood, ‘war and its damages, passed through generations over a century’.Michaels sharedan extended reading fromHeldwith actor Stephen Dillane, who played Jakob Beer in the 2007 film adaptation ofFugitive Pieces,and was joined in conversation by the evening's host, Gareth Evans.Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspodGet the

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45:19

Dean Atta & Michael Rosen: Person Unlimited

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/08/07

Choirboy, drag act, grandson, mentor, poet, lover, activist, performer: Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In his explosive, candid and courageous memoirPerson Unlimited(Canongate) he describes a life lived in defiance of categories. Benjamin Zephaniah wrote of Atta’s work as being ‘As honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he seeks no favours . . . Beyond black, beyond white, beyond straight, beyond gay, so I say. Love your eyes over these words of truth. You will be uplifted’. Dean

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59:18

Kristin Hersh & Jennifer Hodgson: The Future of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/07/31

InThe Future of Songwriting, lead singer with Throwing Muses, solo artist and songwriter Kristin Hersh reflects on the status and future of her chosen genre over a long, hot Christmas in Australia. In a series of conversations, encounters and philosophical dialogues Hersh delivers a fierce, funny and existential meditation on the art of the song - and its future. She was joined at the Bookshop by writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson.Get the book: https://lrb.me/kristinhershpodFind more events at the

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51:08

Saraid de Silva & Nina Mingya Powles: Amma

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/07/24

In her debut novel Amma (Weatherglass), a multi-generational saga set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and London, Saraid de Silva explores memory, trauma and displacement. She was in conversation with Nina Mingya Powles, author of Tiny Moons and Small Bodies of Water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:34

Siblings: Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris &...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/07/17

Siblings(Monitor Books) is a unique round-table discussion / poetry collection, convened by Will Harris, between Harris, Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan and Nisha Ramayya. The four poets explore real and imaginary siblings, writing communities, and the wayward directions of the lyric mode – writing as makers and friends about the possibilities that poetry enables now. All four poets convened at the Bookshop for discussion and readings.Get the book: https://lrb.me/siblingsbookFind more events at the

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1:07:17

Love’s Work: James Butler, Rebekah Howes & Rowan...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/07/10

When Gillian Rose’sLove’s Workwas published shortly before the author’s death in 1995, Marina Warner wrote in theLRB:‘This small book contains multitudes. It fits to the hand like one of those knobbed hoops that do concise duty for the rosary, each knob giving the mind pause to open up to vistas of meditation on mysteries and passion.’To mark the publication of anew edition(Penguin Modern Classics) with an introduction by Madeleine Pulman-Jones, we host a discussion of Rose’s ‘masterpiece of the

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52:34

Harriet Baker & Lauren Elkin: Rural Hours

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/07/03

1917: Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block.1930: Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast.1941: Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming 'a writer again'.Harriet Baker describes in Rural Hours (Allen Lane) how three very different writers, more often associated with

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53:46

Lauren Oyler & Leo Robson: No Judgement

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/06/26

Lauren Oyler is one of our rowdiest and sharpest literary critics, twice causing the LRB website to crash from too much traffic, and author of the novel Fake Accounts. No Judgement is her first collection of non-fiction; a series of interlinked essays connecting internet gossip, the attention economy, and the role of criticism.Oyler is in conversation with journalist and cultural commentator Leo Robson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:55

Joe Dunthorne, Hanan Issa & Manon Steffan Ros: Wales...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/06/19

Three of Wales' best contemporary writers in an early St David's Day celebration of Wales in words. Novelist Joe Dunthorne, National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Carnegie prize-winning novelist and playwright Manon Steffan Ros explore the country's literary history, share its less-known treasures, and discuss the meaning of 'Welshness' today, in a one-off conversation with readings. The event was curated by Hay Festival as part of Wales Week in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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57:58

Fernanda Eberstadt & Olivia Laing: Bite Your Friends

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/06/12

Fernanda Eberstadt’sBite Your Friendsis both a history of the body as a site of resistance to power, and a subversive memoir, drawing on a cast of outrageous heroes including Diogenes, Saint Perpetua, Pasolini, Pussy Riot and the political artist Piotr Pavlensky, who nailed his scrotum to the pavement of Red Square to protest Vladimir Putin’s tyranny. Eberstadt was joined at the Bookshop by critic and novelist Olivia Laing, whose latest bookThe Garden Against Time(Picador) is forthcoming in May

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1:06:25

Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/06/05

When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met.Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secretsis a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by intimacy – a brave and rigorously humane book.’ Wills was joined in conversation with Alice Spawls, editor of theLRBand co-editor ofAfter Sex(Silver Press).Get

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