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Publisher |: London Review Bookshop

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Arts,; Books

Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books

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

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Country Of Origin |: United Kingdom
Produced In |: London, England
Premiere Date |: 2004-01-21
Related Hashtags |: #BBCNSSA,; #LRBat40,; #LRBScreen,; #LRBscreenathome,; #LRBSound
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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512 Available Episodes (512 Total) / Average duration: 01:00:39

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512 Available Episodes (512 Total)Average duration: 01:00:39

Apr 19, 2023

01:13:23

In Affinities, a series of linked essays, Brian Dillon investigates what it might mean for a thing to be like something else, and what it might mean for things to be connected even when they are nothing like one another. Currently Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London, Dillon’s writing is always surprising, and revelatory. Expect both revelations and surprises.

Dillon was joined in conversation by the writer Jennifer Higgie, whose latest book is The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.

Buy Affinities: lrb.me/affinitiesbook

Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod

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Apr 12, 2023

00:52:41

Fellow of All Souls, Oxford and regular LRB contributor Clare Bucknell argues in The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture (Head of Zeus) that the selective way in which poetry has been presented over the past three centuries tells a fascinating story about the democratisation of literature, class, gender, politics and nationalism. She talks about it with another regular LRB contributor, social and architectural historian Rosemary Hill.

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Apr 05, 2023

01:08:31

In one of the most eagerly anticipated debuts of 2023, LRB editor Tom Crewe presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis. The New Life charts their collaboration on a revolutionary work that set out to transform our understanding of sexual ethics. Tom Crewe was in conversation with Paul Mendez, author of another ground-breaking debut Rainbow Milk.

Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod

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Mar 29, 2023

00:49:31

Novelist and essayist Michael Bracewell reads from and talks about his latest novel Unfinished Business. An apparently ordinary, suburban office life, with its regular troubles of work, ambition, disappointment, marriage, age and bereavement becomes sharpened as pleasure is mistaken for happiness.

Bracewell is in conversation with Gwendoline Riley, author of First Love and My Phantoms.

Find upcoming events on the Bookshop website: lrb.me/eventspod

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Mar 22, 2023

00:55:24

In I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be (Cape) Colin Grant, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, director of WritersMosaic and author of Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy and Bageye at the Wheel, evokes the experience of growing up in Britain as the child of Jamaican parents. In the words of Bernardine Evaristo ‘Colin Grant writes about the characters in his family with the mischievous, dramatic flair of a natural storyteller. This is a compelling and charming read.’ Grant was in conversation with author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist Michael Rosen.

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Mar 15, 2023

00:59:12

In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson measures the achievement of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time against Proust’s more celebrated In Search of Lost Time – and finds Powell to be superior in certain key respects. Anderson discusses why a comparison between two writers at once so similar and dissimilar sheds new light on their greatest work, and literary construction more generally. He was joined by novelist and LRB contributing editor John Lanchester, for whom both writers have been lifelong touchstones.

Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/events

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Mar 08, 2023

01:04:39

Ha-Joon Chang is one of the world’s leading thinkers on development economics. In Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World, Chang combines his passion for numbers with his passion for food (in particular, chocolate) to explain how the politics and economics of food production work with, for, and against us.

Chang was joined by economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler, whose first book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, will be published in April 2023.

Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod

Attend our last Winter Lecture this Friday in person or online: lrb.me/winterlectures

Subscribe to Close Readings: lrb.me/closereadings

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Mar 01, 2023

01:04:05

In Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s latest book a film director is attending a retrospective of his work in Barcelona. Plagued by personal tragedy, Sergio Cabrera begins to recall the events that have marked him and his family, from the Spanish Civil War to the Chinese Cultural Revolution to the guerrilla wars in Latin America.

Vásquez is in conversation with writer and broadcaster Shahidha Bari.

Buy tickets to our forthcoming events, including livestreams, here: https://lrb.me/events

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Feb 22, 2023

00:56:40

Over a century after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of the Soviet Union continues to fascinate us and influence global politics. In The Shortest History Of The Soviet Union (Old Street Publishing), acclaimed historian Sheila Fitzpatrick charts the development of the nation, from its accidental beginnings to its unexpected departure, and asks what lessons the global superpowers of today have learned from its story. Sheila Fitzpatrick was in conversation with writer, journalist and fellow LRB contributor James Meek.

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Feb 15, 2023

00:54:38

Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole, gathers those essays and new pieces into a bestiary of unusual and underappreciated creatures. Katherine was joined by LRB editor Alice Spawls in a discussion touching on Elizabethan celebrity bears, Amelia Earhart’s bones, and the greatest lie we’ve ever told: that the world is ours for the taking.

Find upcoming events on the Bookshop website: lrb.me/eventspod

You can read Katherine’s work in the LRB archives: lrb.me/rundell

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Apr 19 | 01:13:23

Brian Dillon & Jennifer Higgie: Affinities

Apr 12 | 00:52:41

Clare Bucknell & Rosemary Hill: The Treasuries

Apr 05 | 01:08:31

Tom Crewe & Paul Mendez: The New Life

Mar 29 | 00:49:31

Michael Bracewell & Gwendoline Riley: Unfinished Business

Mar 22 | 00:55:24

Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be

Mar 15 | 00:59:12

Perry Anderson and John Lanchester: Powell v. Proust

Mar 08 | 01:04:39

Ha-Joon Chang & Daniel Chandler: Edible Economics

Mar 01 | 01:04:05

Juan Gabriel Vásquez & Shahidha Bari: Retrospective

Feb 22 | 00:56:40

Sheila Fitzpatrick & James Meek: The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Feb 15 | 00:54:38

Katherine Rundell and Alice Spawls: The Golden Mole

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