Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

We return once more to the land of books and such to discuss mystery-solving algorithms, controversial Chinese artists, old interviews with George R. R. Martin and more.

Our featured books are Mort by Terry Pratchett, the video game-based Splinter Cell by David Michaels, Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny by J. Robert King and The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.

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On this week's episode we discuss a new Shakespeare biography by Boris Johnson, George R. R, Martin's disappointment with Marvel villains, Teesside's bid for "City" of Culture and more.

Our featured books are Seveneves by Neal Stephenson and When The Heavens Fall by Marc Turner.

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We kick things off this week with the fallout from the release of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman", the auction of a one-page illustrated poem by A. A, Milne, the controversial sale of paintings by Adolph Hitler in Nuremberg (seriously, who thought that was a good idea), and more.

Our featured book is Dave Vs. The Monsters: Resistance by John Birmingham.

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On this episode we discuss Harper Lee's letters failing to sell at auction. a new Beatles stage musical focusing on their time recording at Abbey Road, the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" and more.

Our featured books are Depth by Lev A.C. Rosen and Dave Versus The Monsters: Emergence by John Birmingham.

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On this episode we discuss the theft of Grey, the first Latin-American Poet Laureate for the U.S.A., the new Children's Laureate and all sorts of other stuff.

We also take a look at a list of the (allegedly) most evil child characters of all time.

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This week things get weirder than normal with the announcement of a sequel/prequel to 50 Shades of Grey, the upcoming reissue of Jane Austen's nephew's granddaughter Lois Austen-Leigh's The Incredible Crime, young-adult novels being compared to cocaine and all sorts of tangents.

Our featured books are An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir and Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture edited by Stephen H. Segal.

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This week we discuss Margaret Atwood's "unseen" addition to The Future Library, the republication of the first book in The Flashman Papers series by George McDonald Fraser, Amazon's dispute wit Penguin Random House and more.

We also take a look at world-building and investigate some of the problems associated with this essential aspect of storytelling.

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On this week's episode Shakespeare's face apparently appears in a 400 year-old book on botany, Alexander Mccall Smith wins a pig and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a rare opportunity to see a first edition of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and more.

Our featured book is The Mutant Files: Deadeye by Wiliiam C. Dietz.

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On this week's episode we discuss Bookseller magazine's Book of the Year, the auction of Picasso's "Women of Algiers", the possible end of the British love affair with celbrity memoirs and more. We also offer our take on the world of audio books ...

Our featured book is the novelisation of Alien: Ressurection by A. C. Crispin.

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On this week's episode we discuss Stephen King's latest award victory, the Russian bookshop ban on Art Spiegelman's Maus, the discovery of a cache of stories by Mark Twain, the codpieces in the TV adaptation of Wolf Hall and more. We also take a look at clickbait books and some popular phrases that originated from the works of Shakespeare.

Our featured book is The Night Mayor by Kim Newman.

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