In this episode I talk to Madeleine Dunnigan about her novel Jean (2026) from Daunt.

Madeleine Dunnigan is a writer and screenwriter from London. She was a Jill Davis Fellow on the MFA at New York University. While there she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship in Paris. Her first novel, Jean, was published by Daunt Books (UK) and W.W. Norton (US) in 2026 and will be translated into Spanish, German and Italian.

Episode Notes:

• Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven (listen to my ep with him); Philippe Besson, Lie With Me; Justin Torres, We the Animals

Book Recs:

• John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
• Louise Kennedy, Trespasses
• Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
• Susanna Moore, In the Cut
• Virginia Woolf, The Years
• Octavia Butler's short stories and manifesto
• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
• Yoko Ogawa, Hotel Iris

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Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd.