Bookmark This! Ep 16: The Discomfort Of Literature

22:16 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Literary discomfort is having a winning streak of late, from Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's unsettling Dutch novel The Discomfort Of Evening snagging the International Booker Prize and Marylyn Tan becoming the first woman poet to score a solo victory at the Singapore Literature Prize for her collection Gaze Back.

Journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li chat about these in the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, as well as uncomfortable new releases The Lying Life Of Adults by Elena Ferrante and Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh.

Listen at:

Gaze Back by Marylyn Tan - 00:42

The Discomfort Of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - 03:20

Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - 09:53

The Lying Life Of Adults by Elena Ferrante - 12:36

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li and Penelope Lee

Edited by: Muhammad Firmann

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Bookmark This! Ep 15: Escape into these books

23:54 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

After nearly two months under circuit breaker, you may want to break free - so journalists Olivia Ho (right) and Toh Wen Li (far right) pick out some escapist reads for you in the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, whether it is renowned author Dan Brown or feeling less miserable with Les Miserables.

Choose your own adventure in Intan Paramaditha's The Wandering, or flee a futuristic Singapore for new worlds in Judith Huang's Sofia And The Utopia Machine.

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown: 1:10

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones: 4:45

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy: 8:37

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: 11:40

Sofia And The Utopia Machine by Judith Huang: 16:52

The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha: 20:58

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li and Penelope Lee

Edited by: Penelope Lee

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Bookmark This! Ep 14: Pandemic novels for stay-home reading

31:29 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Bored out of your mind while staying at home during the coronavirus circuit breaker? In the latest episode of this Straits Times literary podcast, journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li pick out some pandemic novels that may resonate with you, from Albert Camus’s seminal The Plague to Emily St John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic Station Eleven, as well as books by Singaporean authors Danielle Lim and Thea Lim. 

0:55 The Plague by Albert Camus

6:33 Severance by Ling Ma

13:51 Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

17:44 An Ocean Of Minutes by Thea Lim21:03 Trafalgar Sunrise by Danielle Lim

24:50 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel 

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Bookmark This! Ep 13: In the mood for love poems

30:56 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li chat about love poems across the spectrum, whether it is John Donne or Joshua Ip, budding romance or broken hearts, having a Coke together or keeping the stars apart. 

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, Penelope Lee and Ernest Luis

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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Bookmark This! Ep 12: Clothes, consumption and the climate crisis

20 mins

Synopsis: A podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li check out three new books on the climate crisis: Naomi Klein's searing essay collection On Fire; We Are The Weather, in which Jonathan Safran Foer argues you can fight climate change by changing your diet; and Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas, which looks at the environmental cost of fashion.

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, Penelope Lee and Ernest Luis

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Bookmark This! Ep 11: Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?

27:30 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li break down the Booker Prize shortlist and weigh Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie's chances against Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, which is more than 1,000 pages long.

00:51 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

05:15 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

07:30 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World by Elif Shafak

12:26 An Orchestra Of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

15:26 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

19:27 Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

Edited by: Penelope Lee

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Bookmark This! Ep 10: Screen sirens, showgirls and sexuality

23 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Revisit the glamour of 1930s and 1940s show business with Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li as they discuss Delayed Rays Of A Star, Singaporean writer Amanda Lee Koe's dazzling debut novel about cinema legends Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl, and City Of Girls, Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert's glitzy romp through the New York theatre world of the 1940s. 

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

Edited by: John Lui

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Bookmark This! Ep 9: Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks

24:18 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads

When should an audiobook not sound too polished?

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li swap their bookmarks for headphones in this episode, in which they review audiobooks by the likes of David Sedaris, Neil Humphreys, Marlon James, Marie Kondo and more.

They review the new Storytel app, which is also putting out original content based on Singapore literature:

2:50 David Sedaris, Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules

4:19 Neil Humphreys, Notes From An Even Smaller Island

6:16 George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo

8:02 Philip Pullman, The Book Of Dust #1: La Belle Sauvage (read by Michael Sheen)

10:30 Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (read by Dion Graham)

13:44 Lau Siew Mei, The Last Immigrant (read by Benjamin Chow)

16:28 Sharlene Teo, Ponti (read by Vera Chok)

18:03 Sebastian Sim, The Riot Act (read by Karen Tan) 

20:21 Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up (read by Lucy Scott)

Audiobook clips provided courtesy of Storytel Singapore.

Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, John Lui and Ernest Luis

Edited by: John Lui

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Join The Watch | Ep 6 | Going, going... Drogon – The split over the Game Of Thrones finale

34 minutes of tear-stained spoilers

And so our watch ends.

The finale of Game Of Thrones took us to places we were not expecting.

Host Jonathan Roberts is joined by ST's Jan Lee, Hairianto Diman, Melissa Heng and S Sakthivel.

They discuss the big moments of S8E6 before signing off forever.

That's as much as we'll say here. You'll have to listen to get the spoilers.

The final season of Game Of Thrones premieres in Singapore on HBO (Starhub TV Ch 601/ Singtel TV Ch 420) and can be streamed on HBO GO app.

Valar morghulis.

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Bookmark This! Ep 8: Middlemarch, Middle-Earth and the end of the world

20 mins

Synopsis: A new monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Book-to-screen adaptations - love them or hate them? This month, as Game Of Thrones wraps up on HBO and we look forward to the Amazon Studios and BBC miniseries based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Armageddon comedy Good Omens, we size up the best and worst adaptations out there - from actors playing multiple characters in Cloud Atlas to the failure of the 2005 Pride And Prejudice film, and why Brad Pitt needs to stop making zombie movies.

1:55: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

5:37: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

7:04: The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

11:42: Middlemarch by George Eliot

13:31: Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

14:51: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

15:27: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

15:47: Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie

16:23: World War Z by Max Brooks

18:18: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

18:44: The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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