In this episode I talk to Seth Insua about his novel Human, Animal (2025)

Seth Insua is an Anglo-Spanish writer and artist. He was born in Kent in 1989. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a First in English Language and Literature. His debut novel, Human, Animal, was published by VERVE Books in 2025 and Letras de Plata in Spanish the following year. It was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Sara Cox, and shortlisted for both the inaugural New Adult Book Prize and the Book of the Year: Discover by the British Book Awards. He lives with his husband, David, between Newcastle upon Tyne and Madrid.

Episode notes:

• Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 'Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading...'
• Roland Barthes, S/Z (the proairetic code)

Book recs:

• Saleem Haddad, Floodlines (go back and listen to my interview with Saleem!)
• Josh Silver, Fruit Fly

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Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd.