Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

There’s weirdness afoot as the NRA add firearms to fairytales, adult colouring books cause a global shortage of colouring pencils and Fifty Shades of Grey gets repurposed for defence.

Our featured book is Dancer’s Lament: Path to Ascendancy (A Novel of the Mazalan Empire), by Ian C. Esselmont.

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The rambunctious scamps return for more literary conversation including the winner of the Bookseller Diagram prize, a “magical” collaboration between Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft, the “Invisible Collection” and more.

Our featured books are Bigfoot Loose and Finn Fancy Free by Randy Henderson and The Immorality Engine by George Mann.

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We open this week’s show with the sad news that Harper Lee and Umberto Eco had passed away. In other news, the Devon town of Tiverton influenced J. D. Salinger’s Catcher In The Rye, One Direction fan-fiction author Anna Todd starts an app for her fans, and as is our tradition we discuss Bookseller Diagram Prize for the oddest book title.

Our featured book is Dragon Hunters by Marc Turner (Book 2 of The Chronicles of the Exiles).

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We go off into the wild blue yonder once again with discussions about the eighth Harry Potter book, Dracula’s West Country origins, dealing with drunk family members coming back from an orgy (yes, you read that right), and more.

Our featured book is The Complete Aliens Omnibus volume 1, which consists of Aliens: Earth Hive (by Steve Perry), Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (by Steve Perry), and Aliens: The Female War (by Steve and Stephanie Perry).

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We return for more book-related antics, and this week we discuss leeches named after Amy Tan, fairy tales that are older than people think, a writing residency on a bridge tower and more.

Our featured book is Diggers by Sir Terry Pratchett (Book 2 of The Bromeliad/The Nome Trilogy).

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We return for another year of books and other artsy things, and we kick off our first show of 2016 with news about Philip Pullman’s withdrawal as patron of the Oxford Literary Festival, the Bare Lit. Festival, Shakespeare versus , a petition to name element 117 as “Octarine” and more.

Our featured books are Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen and The Pagan Night (Book 1 of The Hallowed War), by Tim Akers.

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It’s our last show of 2015, but before we head off into the frozen waste we discuss the plagiarism scandal in poetry’s Stephen Spender prize, Morrissey’s retort at winning the Bad Sex award, a U.S. school’s ban on Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and more.

And since it’s Christmas, we take a look at book covers with one letter missing or different.

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The Loiterers are back with more arty goodness, and this week we’re discussing the unusual winners of the 2015 Turner Prize, Margaret Attwood’s graphic novel called “Angel Cat Bird”, a 4-day marathon reading of War & Peace, violence mistaken for performance art, and a whole lot of Woody Allen.

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Those cheeky bookish boys return for more shenanigans, and this week they discuss Mein Kampf's first printing in Germany since World War 2, Donald Trump’s speeches being turned into poetry, Morrissey winning the “Bad Sex Award” for his debut novel and more.

Our featured book is The Watchman of Eternity by Paul Witcover (book 2 of The Productions of Time).

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Thing go South very quickly this week as we discuss the appointment of the UK's first comics professort at Lancaster University, James Dawson's response to criticism of his LGBT guide for children, the search for a new trophy design for the World Fantasy Award and more.

Our featured book is The Emperor of All Things by Paul Witcover (book 1 of The Productions of Time).

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