The Literary Edit Podcast

For the sixth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanne Harris. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Myths of the Norsemen by H.A. Guerber

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Perfumes, the Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez

 

Other books we spoke about included Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, Joanne’s Chocolat series, The Night at the Circus by Angela Carter, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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For the fifth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the gorgeous Jane Green. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Bilgewater by Jane Gardam

On Writing by Stephen King

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Holmes

 

Other books we spoke about included Jane’s newest novel, Sister Stardust, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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For the fourth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Will Dean. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Underland by Robert Mcfarlane

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

Under the Skin by Michael Faber

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

 

Other books we spoke about included Will’s newest novel, First Born, Trainspotting, H is for Hawk, Frankenstein, On Writing and Danny the Champion of the World.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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For the third episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Justin Myers. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend

Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

The Stud by Jackie Collins

 

Other books we spoke about included Justin’s newest novel, The Fake-Up, The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Lucky by Jackie Collins.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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For the second episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the utterly divine Cressida Connolly. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald

Personality Types by Don Richardson Riso and Russ Hudson

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Friends & Relations by Elizabeth Bowen

Poems of Wang Wei translated by G W Robinson

 

Other books we spoke about included Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier and Alice Munroe’s short stories.

 

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For the first episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the utterly divine Markus Zusak. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton

The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving

The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Night Train by Thom Jones

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

City of God by Paulo Lins

 

Other books we spoke about included A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze By Clayton Zane Comber and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

 

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For the twenty-fifth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by London-based author and writer, Robyn Donaldson. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

The Odyssey by Homer

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

 

Other books we spoke about included The Bricks that Built the Houses, All That Man is and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

 

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For the twenty-fourth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Namibia-based author, writer and all-round legend, Femi Kayode. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

A Son of the Circus by John Irving

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Razorblade Tears by S. A. Crosby

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

 

Other books we spoke about included A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Great Gatsby, Beloved and Harlem Shuffle.

 

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For the twenty-third episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by US-based author and professor, Ali Hazelwood. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

Land of the Beautiful Dead by R Lee Smith

The Spare by Carolyn Jewel

Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

Other books we spoke about included Emma, Persuasion and The Love Hypothesis.

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For the twenty-second episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Sydney-based writer and author, Andrew Pippos. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

George Mills by Stanley Elkin

Praise and 1988 by Andrew McGahan

The Collected Poems of Riussell Edson

Collected Fictions by Jorges Louis Borges

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

 

Other books we spoke about included Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier.

 

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