Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

We're a man down and two men up this week, and somewhere in that equation is an algorithm for best-sellers and a children's picture book about Donald Trump.

Our featured books are Gig Posters Volume 2: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century, The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent (#2), by Marie Brennan, and Found Poetry by Dave Gorman.

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There's never a dull moment when you have judo books for kids by Vladimir Putin, 9-year-old journalists scooping major networks and a set of rejected Disney dwarves.

Our featured books are Escapology by Ren Warom, New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey and The Definitive Visual Guide to Musicals.

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UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, researchers prove that Batman is the most ill-equipped superhero, and William S. Burroughs reading The Naked Lunch will be released as an experimental punk album.

Our featured book is the short story anthology Mash Up (edited by Gardner Dozois).

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This week researchers continue to try to prove things that are common sense, Tom Holland finds parallels between Donald Trump and Caligula, Dan Brown upsets teenagers and young adults, and book vending machines are a great idea.

Our featured books are Creation Machine by Andrew Bannister and Dead Letters: An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing and the Returned (edited by Conrad Williams).

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It’s an assortment of oddments this week with Walt Whitman’s recently rediscovered 47,000 word treatise “Manly Health and Fitness”, scientists arguing that the Borrowers couldn’t exist in reality and more. We also some alternative insults from Shakespearean works.

Our featured book is Clash of Eagles by Alan Smale (book 1 of The Hesperian Trilogy).

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This week Producer Rob is doing cartwheels because one of his favourite fantasy novel franchises – The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan – is getting a “cutting edge TV series”. In amongst all the unhealthy acrobatics we discuss the “kingly” statue overlooking Tintagel Castle, the fate of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic sculpture, some very odd adult colouring books (no, not that kind), and lots of other stuff.

Our featured book is In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent (#4), by Marie Brennan.

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In amongst the Dali diaries, more additions to Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series and our favourite childhood books, we found a story about a painting that, once seen, will never be forgotten.

Our featured books are Firefly: The Gorram Shiniest Dictionary and Phrasebook in the ‘Verse and The Literature Book.

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Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is getting a TV adaptation!

In other news a company will increase your narcissism with selfie colouring books, Scott Marsh whitewashes his “Kanye Loves Kanye” mural for a lot of money, and check your attics because there may be a lost Carvaggio in there.

Our featured books are Black Wings of Cthulhu edited by S. T. Joshi and A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent (#1), by Marie Brennan.

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This week we get off to a steamy start with the launch of the Literary Hub's prize for the “best erotic passage” (this is not a joke), before we discuss the discovery of Shakespeare's first Folio and a molecular version of The Origin of Species. We also have a quiz about stage directions.

Our featured books are Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim and The Shakespeare Book.

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It’s been a strange week with the passing of renowned architect Dame Zahar Hadid, the news that King Arthur may have been from Yorkshire, and a children’s book about The Queen finding the right crown to wear.

Our featured books are Adventure Time: The Enchiridion & Marcy’s Super Secret Scrapbook, and The Sherlock Holmes Book.

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