London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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London Review Bookshop Podcast episodes:

04.17.2024
Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems
Fleur Adcock’s sly, laconic poems have been delighting audiences since her 1964 debut The Eye of the Hurricane. Her Collected Poems draws together the work of sixty years; as Fiona Sampson writes, ‘Informality and immediacy are good ways to remake a world; and...
04.10.2024
Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers
Holly Pester discusses her debut novel, The Lodgers, with Nathalie Olah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.03.2024
Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex
‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection, God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity....
03.27.2024
Lara Pawson & Jennifer Hodgson: Spent Light
Lara Pawson discusses her new book Spent Light with Jennifer Hodgson. Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.20.2024
Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp
Paul Muldoon reads from and talks about his collection Howdie-Skelp. Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.13.2024
Adam Phillips & Hermione Lee: On Giving Up
‘Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its significance – may be a clue to something we should really call our histories and not our selves’,...
03.06.2024
Lavinia Greenlaw & Jennifer Higgie: The Vast Extent
Lavinia Greenlaw’s new book The Vast Extent is a collection of ‘exploded essays’, about light and image, sight and the unseen, covering wide territories with the scientific precision and ease of access which characterises her poetry. She was joined by...
02.28.2024
Seán Hewitt & Sarah Perry: Rapture’s Road
Seán Hewitt’s new poetry collection Rapture’s Road follows hard on the heels of Tongues of Fire – the winner of the 2021 Laurel Prize – and the bestselling memoir All Down Darkness Wide. Like its predecessors, the collection confronts dark...
02.21.2024
Emily Wilson, Edith Hall, Juliet Stevenson & Tobias Menzies: The Iliad
Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, published in 2017, the first into English by a woman, was hailed as a ‘revelation’ by the New York Times and a ‘cultural landmark’ by the Guardian. With her translation of the Iliad, ten...
02.14.2024
Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan: Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan reads from their new collection, Bright Fear, and discuss it with Andrew McMillan. Chan’s debut, Fleche, won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2019. Bright Fear extends and develops that collection’s themes of identity, multilingualism and...
02.07.2024
Ella Risbridger & Kate Young: The Dinner Table
Who would you invite to a dinner party? In The Dinner Table, a delicious collection of great food writing from past and present, talented writer-chefs Kate Young and Ella Risbridger will introduce you to Samuel Pepys on the glories of...
01.31.2024
Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski: Sorcerer
Part script, part novel, part manual, Sorcerer (Prototype) is the latest unclassifiable book written in collaboration between the artist and writer Ed Atkins and the poet and critic Steven Zultanski – a gentle, contemplative work about the pleasures of conversation,...
01.24.2024
Lynne Segal & Amelia Horgan: Lean on Me
In Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, continues the radical exploration of how the personal and the political interact. As Baroness...
01.17.2024
Tom Stevenson & Tariq Ali: Someone Else's Empire
In Someone Else's Empire Tom Stevenson, a contributing editor at the LRB, dispels the potent myth of Britain as a global player punching above its weight on the world stage, arguing instead that its foreign policy has for a long...
01.10.2024
Mathias Enard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Mathias Enard’s latest novel, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild takes us to the marshlands of South West France in a Rabelaisian celebration of life, love and death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez writes of him ‘Every novel by Mathias Enard...
01.03.2024
McKenzie Wark & Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money, Sex and Death
In her most personal book to date, Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso) McKenzie Wark writes with her characteristic acuity about gender transition, communism, history, art, memory and the journey of discovering who one really wants to be.Wark talks...
12.27.2023
Isabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
‘Reading Waidner is like plugging into an electric socket of language and ideas’ wrote Jude Cook in the Guardian, praising Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold. Waidner reads from their latest novel Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, and talks about it...
12.20.2023
Amy Acre & Joelle Taylor: Mothersong
Poet and editor of Bad Betty Press Amy Acre reads from and talks about her debut collection Mothersong (Bloomsbury). Poignant and powerful, her work explores motherhood, grief, trauma, recovery and what it means to be a female artist. She's in...
12.13.2023
Zadie Smith & Adam Thirlwell: The Fraud/The Future Future
Historical fiction is having a moment, and at the forefront are two of 2023’s most hotly anticipated novels: Zadie Smith’s The Fraud and Adam Thirlwell’s The Future Future. Smith and Thirlwell discussed their approaches to fiction and the ways in which prose...
12.06.2023
Danny Dorling & Leo Hollis: Shattered Nation
In Shattered Nation, Oxford Professor of Geography Danny Dorling meticulously documents how Britain over the last 40 years has been transformed by incompetence, avarice and short-termism from one of the world’s leading economies, with widely admired public services, into Europe’s...
11.29.2023
Kehinde Andrews & Afua Hirsch: The Psychosis of Whiteness
Kehinde Andrews continues the work he began in The New Age of Empire with The Psychosis of Whiteness (Allen Lane), a wry and piercing guide to retaining sanity in a racist world, which Ron Ramdin has described as ‘a remarkable...
11.22.2023
Terrance Hayes and Nick Laird
Terrance Hayes and Nick Laird read from and talk about their recent books So to Speak (Penguin) and Up Late (Faber). Hayes, describing Laird, praises his ‘truth-telling that’s political, existential and above all, emotional’; Laird writing about Hayes notes that...
11.15.2023
Ian Nairn: Modern Buildings in London
Ian Nairn’s Modern Buildings in London was first published in 1964 and now appears, 40 years after his death, in a new edition from Notting Hill with an introduction by Travis Elborough, ‘one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians’ according...
11.08.2023
Helen Macdonald, Sin Blaché & Isabel Waidner: Prophet
Helen Macdonald (H is for Hawk) has collaborated with musician and writer Sin Blaché to write a dazzling science fiction debut. Author Paraic O’Donnell describes Prophet (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a hyperkinetic headrush of a novel that proves its organic bona...
11.01.2023
Adam Mars-Jones & Leo Robson: Caret
Caret continues the adventures of the irrepressible John Cromer, begun in Pilcrow (2008) and continued in Cedilla (2011) – part of Adam Mars-Jones’ ‘semi-infinite’ novel series, praised by one reviewer as ‘a genuine, almost miraculous oddity’. Mars-Jones was in...
10.25.2023
Lauren Elkin & Vanessa Peterson: Art Monsters
For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?...
10.18.2023
Jeremy Deller & Michael Bracewell: Art is Magic
A holistic and revealing account of the inspirations, passions and practices of one of the country’s foremost contemporary artists, Art is Magic finds Jeremy Deller reflecting on the entirety of his career, his life and his art. Deller was joined...
10.11.2023
Tessa Hadley & Geoff Dyer: After the Funeral
In Tessa Hadley’s new collection, After the Funeral (Jonathan Cape), small events have huge consequences. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality...
10.04.2023
New Faber Poetry
Four Faber poets will join us to read from their recent collections. Describing Declan Ryan's long-awaited debut, Crisis Actor, Liz Berry called it ‘elegant and heartaching’. Maggie Millner‘s Couplets, also a debut, is a novel in verse, a unique repurposing of...
09.27.2023
Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole & Jon Day: The Allotment
Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole and Jon Day discuss Colin Ward and David Crouch's 1988 classic of social and oral history The Allotment, long out of print but finally reissued by the indefatigable Little Toller Books. Upcoming events at the bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod...
09.20.2023
Scratch Books Presents: Saba Sams & Jem Calder
Two of Britain’s most exciting short story writers joined in conversation to celebrate the release of their highly-acclaimed debuts in paperback. Faber author Jem Calder and Edge Hill Prize winner Saba Sams read from and discussed their stories with Tom...
09.13.2023
Amber Husain & Rebecca May Johnson: Meat Love
Meat Love, the latest book-length essay by Amber Husain (following on from 2021’s Replace Me), explores how meat-eating has become irretrievably enmeshed with capitalist desire, in what Sophie Lewis has described as ‘an exquisitely-crafted little hand grenade lobbed at the...
09.06.2023
Ian Penman & Adam Mars-Jones: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982)....
08.30.2023
K Patrick & Amelia Abraham: Mrs S
K Patrick’s Mrs. S is one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the year, having already secured for its author a spot on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. A queer romance set in the staffroom of...
08.23.2023
M. John Harrison & Jennifer Hodgson: Wish I Was Here
M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, magical and literary realism. Wish I Was Here is his first work of memoir – an ‘anti-memoir’...
08.16.2023
Jacqueline Rose & James Butler: The Plague
In The Plague (Fitzcarraldo) Jacqueline Rose who has, in the words of Edward Said ‘no peer among critics of her generation’ uses the recent experience of the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the writings of Simone Weil to...
08.09.2023
Octavia Bright & Olivia Laing: This Ragged Grace
This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia Bright’s journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s. Looking back over this time, each of the seven chapters explores the feelings and experiences...
08.02.2023
Maureen McLane & Will Harris
Maureen McLane’s poetry has been praised for its deftness, intelligence and grace under extreme pressure. Her new collection, the aptly named What You Want, draws on these strengths to produce something remarkable and new. In a rare UK appearance, she...
07.26.2023
Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue
Novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy read from and spoke about her novel August Blue, a mesmerising story of how identities, coalesce, collide and collapse. She was joined in conversation about August Blue with the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, author of The Examined Life. Find more events at...
07.19.2023
Devorah Baum & Hisham Matar: ‘On Marriage’
Marriage has been an institution for centuries but why this highly contested and ancient practice has remained relevant to so many is by no means certain. What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we...
07.12.2023
Lynne Tillman & Michael Bracewell: Mothercare
When novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman’s mother became ill with the rare condition of normal pressure hydrocephalus she became entirely dependent on Lynne, her sisters and other caregivers, reversing the normal roles of parent and child. In Mothercare, Tillman...
07.05.2023
Claudia Rankine & Nicola Rollock: Plot
Claudia Rankine’s Plot, an early work published for the first time in the UK this month, is a meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. It...
06.28.2023
Amy Key & Megan Nolan: Arrangements in Blue
Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Amy Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life lived completely by, and for, oneself. Joined by Megan Nolan, the author of Acts of...
06.21.2023
Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History
A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo Editions) is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of...
06.14.2023
Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring
In Revolutionary Spring (Allen Lane), a series of brilliant set-pieces, pre-eminent European historian Christopher Clark brings back to our attention the extraordinary events of the Spring of 1848. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest to Berlin to Rome to Palermo,...
06.07.2023
Nicole Flattery & Claire-Louise Bennett: Nothing Special
New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment, an alcoholic mother and her mother’s occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist for Andy Warhol, transcribing conversations with his friends and associates to provide the...
05.31.2023
Brenda Shaughnessy & Amy Key: Liquid Flesh
Brenda Shaughnessy’s Liquid Flesh (Bloodaxe) gathers together poems from across her first five collections, as thrilling and unpredictable as any contemporary American poet. Writing about her work in the Boston Review, Richard Howard says that ‘when anything is as fresh...
05.24.2023
Ruth Padell and Sean Borodale: Watershed
In Ruth Padel’s latest pamphlet, Watershed, the poet reflects on the natural world, on water, and on the psychology of denialism, particularly where it concerns the climate crisis. Padel was joined in reading and conversation by Sean Borodale, whose latest...
05.17.2023
Don Paterson & Declan Ryan: Toy Fights
In Toy Fights poet Don Paterson recounts his childhood in working-class Dundee. This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the...
05.10.2023
Ian Patterson & Keston Sutherland: Shell Vestige Disputed
Ian Patterson, in both poetry and prose, revels in language, its possibilities, absurdities and contradictions. He joined fellow poet Keston Sutherland for conversation at the Bookshop, and to read from and present his latest collection Shell Vestige Disputed. Find more...

What's London Review Bookshop Podcast about?

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London Review Bookshop Podcast episodes:

Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems

Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers

Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex

Lara Pawson & Jennifer Hodgson: Spent Light

Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp

Adam Phillips & Hermione Lee: On Giving Up

Lavinia Greenlaw & Jennifer Higgie: The Vast Extent

Seán Hewitt & Sarah Perry: Rapture’s Road

Emily Wilson, Edith Hall, Juliet Stevenson & Tobias Menzies: The Iliad

Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan: Bright Fear

Ella Risbridger & Kate Young: The Dinner Table

Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski: Sorcerer

Lynne Segal & Amelia Horgan: Lean on Me

Tom Stevenson & Tariq Ali: Someone Else's Empire

Mathias Enard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

McKenzie Wark & Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money, Sex and Death

Isabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

Amy Acre & Joelle Taylor: Mothersong

Zadie Smith & Adam Thirlwell: The Fraud/The Future Future

Danny Dorling & Leo Hollis: Shattered Nation

Kehinde Andrews & Afua Hirsch: The Psychosis of Whiteness

Terrance Hayes and Nick Laird

Ian Nairn: Modern Buildings in London

Helen Macdonald, Sin Blaché & Isabel Waidner: Prophet

Adam Mars-Jones & Leo Robson: Caret

Lauren Elkin & Vanessa Peterson: Art Monsters

Jeremy Deller & Michael Bracewell: Art is Magic

Tessa Hadley & Geoff Dyer: After the Funeral

New Faber Poetry

Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole & Jon Day: The Allotment

Scratch Books Presents: Saba Sams & Jem Calder

Amber Husain & Rebecca May Johnson: Meat Love

Ian Penman & Adam Mars-Jones: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

K Patrick & Amelia Abraham: Mrs S

M. John Harrison & Jennifer Hodgson: Wish I Was Here

Jacqueline Rose & James Butler: The Plague

Octavia Bright & Olivia Laing: This Ragged Grace

Maureen McLane & Will Harris

Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

Devorah Baum & Hisham Matar: ‘On Marriage’

Lynne Tillman & Michael Bracewell: Mothercare

Claudia Rankine & Nicola Rollock: Plot

Amy Key & Megan Nolan: Arrangements in Blue

Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring

Nicole Flattery & Claire-Louise Bennett: Nothing Special

Brenda Shaughnessy & Amy Key: Liquid Flesh

Ruth Padell and Sean Borodale: Watershed

Don Paterson & Declan Ryan: Toy Fights

Ian Patterson & Keston Sutherland: Shell Vestige Disputed