Novel Experience

Debut author Khashayar J. Khabushani, author of I Will Greet The Sun Again.
Khash chats about:

• How coming out as an Artist held almost as many challenges as coming out as Queer
• The transformative power of the Columbia University MFA
• Writing from memories and remembered senses
• Writing to make amends to his childhood self and his inner child
• Writing hope and joy into a story with trauma and challenges imbedded in it

Guest Author: Khashayar J. Khabushani Books: I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
Khash’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Khash’s work: What The Living Do by Marie Howe, What Work Is by Philip Levine
A book Khash has always loved: Another Country by James Baldwin, We The Animals by Justin Torres
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Other books mentioned in this episode: Just Kids by Patti Smith

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Guest: Bobby Palmer Twitter: @thebobpalmer Instagram: @thebobpalmer
Books: ISAAC AND THE EGG

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Booker Prize Shortlisted author Paul Murray, author of THE BEE STING, THE MARK AND THE VOID, SKIPPY DIES and AN EVENING OF LONG GOODBYES.

Paul chats about:

• The role Ali Smith and John Boyne played in his journey to becoming an author
• How he writes all his longhand and how a first draft is a stack of loose sheets of paper
• Being careful about what you allow into your head when you are writing
• Whether he identifies as a writer of Family Sagas or State of The Nation novels
• The challenges and joys of writing multiperspective work

Guest Author: Paul Murray Books: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, The Mark and The Void by Paul Murray, Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

Paul’s recommendations:
Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Either/Or by Elif Batuman, Soldier,Sailor by Claire Kilroy, Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell, To Be A Machine by Mark O’Connell, A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell


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Guest: Julie Owen-Moylan Twitter: @julieowenmoylan Instagram: @julieowenmoylan
Books: 73, DOVE STREET, THAT GREEN EYED GIRL

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Author, Presenter and Travel Journalist Kate Maxwell, author of HUSH.
Kate chats about:

• Her work as a travel journalist
• Living in and writing New York
• Researching fertility treatment and writing about donor assisted conception
• Being shortlisted for the Bridport prize (and how she’d recommend every aspiring author to submit work to it!)
• How she knew what she wanted in an agent

Guest Author: Kate Maxwell Twitter: @KateMax IG: @katethemax Books: Hush by Kate Maxwell
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
Kates’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Kate’s work: Experienced by Anna Hope, The Trip by Rebecca Ley
A book Kate has always loved:Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: This Family by Kate Sawyer, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, Second Self by Chloë Ashby
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Guest: Natasha Calder
Books: WHETHER VIOLENT OR NATURAL
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Author and Creative Writing Lecturer Ashley Hickson-Lovence, author of YOUR SHOW & THE 392.
Ashley chats about:

• Being inspired by a great English teacher
• Writing with rhythm and how music and dancing influence his prose
• Drawing on people from real life to build characters
• How his own experiences of refereeing football led to his second novel and his Phd
• Writing in the second person
• How Homes Under The Hammer is integral to his work!

Guest Author: Ashley Hickson-Lovence Twitter: @AHicksonLovence IG: @ahicksonlovence Books: Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence, The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
Ashley’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Ashley’s work: A Natural by Ross Raisin, Man Friday: The First Half by Stuart Kane
A book Ashley has always loved: Lanny by Max Porter
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Other books discussed in this episode: NW by Zadie Smith, Prisoner to the Streets by Robyn Travis, Open Water by Caleb Azumah-Nelson, The Damned United by David Peace
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Guest: Polly Crosby Twitter: @writerpolly Instagram: @writerpollyBooks: VITA AND THE BIRDS, THE UNRAVELLING, THE ILLUSTRATED CHILD

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Author and Arts Critic Chloë Ashby, author of SECOND SELF and WET PAINT.
Chloë chats about:

• Her career as an Arts Critic
• The transformational power of the Faber Academy
• Representations of whales in literature and art
• Writing about the decisions involved in choices about motherhood and not-motherhood.

TW: Fertility
Guest Author: Chloë Ashby Twitter: @chloeashby IG: @chloeashby Books: Wet Paint by Chloë Ashby, Second Self by Chloë Asbhy
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
Chloë’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Chloë’s work: Expectation by Anna Hope
A book Chloë has always loved: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Other books discussed in this episode: The Girl’s by Emma Cline

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Guest: Laura Kay Twitter: @lauraelizakay Instagram: @lauraekay
Books: WILD THINGS, TELL ME EVERYTHING, THE SPLIT


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