Fyre Festival, Sex Education & A Bumper Book Chat

We’re back! Have you missed us? Dolly’s tits-deep in her Everything I Know About Love tour (buy tickets here: faneproductions.com/dolly and the paperback is out now) and Pandora’s essay, The Authentic Lie, for independent crowd-funding publisher, The Pound Project, is now open for pledging. Buy in online or mini book form, here! (Plus, there’s a foreword by Elizabeth Day.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-four-pandora-sykes

This week we discuss everything we’ve been enjoying since Christmas - what we’ve been watching, listening to and reading (a lot.) It’s all listed below. Sign the The High Low’s sub-editor and freelance journalist Anna Codrea Rado’s brilliant open letter to the media, to secure #FairPayForFreelancers http://bit.ly/fairpayforfreelancers. Donate to help The Pool's staff and freelancers get paid: https://www.gofundme.com/help-the-pool-staff-and-freelancers-get-paid?pc=&rcid;=r01-154905562015-fce176adade44eb7 

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Books  Notes To Self, by Emilie Pine  Ordinary People, by Diana Evans All That Man Is, by David Szalay Becoming, by Michelle Obama Duped, by Abby Ellin The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene Vox, by Christina Dalcher Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult My Year or Rest and Relaxation, by Odessa Moshfegh  Swan Song, by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn Putney, by Sofka Zinovieff Instead of a Letter, by Diana Athill  The Orange, by Wendy Cope 

Watching & Listening Bros: After The Screaming Stops, available on BBC iPlayer Origins With James Andrew Miller, on Sex And The City  Bohemian Rhapsody, at cinemas now The Favourite, at cinemas now Mary Poppins Returns, at cinemas now  Emily Blunt, interviewed on Fresh Air  Alison Janney, on WTF Sex Education, on Netflix now Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, on Netflix now  Wendy Cope, on Desert Island Discs Diana Athill, on Desert Island Discs 

Journalism  Lauren Bravo for foodism https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/  The World of Nora Ephron: a reading list https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/  The Ten best life mantras of Diana Athill: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/10-best-life-mantras-brilliant-author-diana-athill/  Diana Athill interviewed for The Lenny Letter: https://www.lennyletter.com/story/diana-athill-interview

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