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A podcast about End Times internet trends, pop culture moments and other girly harbingers of doom
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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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An ambitious series which blends politics and adventure, Tumanbay is a story of upheaval, revolution and romance set in a corrupt fictional city. This epic saga is inspired by the Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt, Gregor (Rufus Wright) - Master of the Palace Guard - is charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) with the task of rooting out an insurgence and crushing it. Series 1 (2016) is 10 episodes, Series 2 (2017) is 8 episodes, Series 3 (2019) is 8 episodes. Cast: Cadali - Matthew Marsh / Wolf ...
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Dean Atta & Michael Rosen: Person Unlimited
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Choirboy, drag act, grandson, mentor, poet, lover, activist, performer: Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In his explosive, candid and courageous memoir Person Unlimited (Canongate) he describes a life lived in defiance of categories. Benjamin Zephaniah wrote of Atta’s work as being ‘As honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he see…
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Kristin Hersh & Jennifer Hodgson: The Future of Songwriting
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In The Future of Songwriting, lead singer with Throwing Muses, solo artist and songwriter Kristin Hersh reflects on the status and future of her chosen genre over a long, hot Christmas in Australia. In a series of conversations, encounters and philosophical dialogues Hersh delivers a fierce, funny and existential meditation on the art of the song -…
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Saraid de Silva & Nina Mingya Powles: Amma
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In her debut novel Amma (Weatherglass), a multi-generational saga set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and London, Saraid de Silva explores memory, trauma and displacement. She was in conversation with Nina Mingya Powles, author of Tiny Moons and Small Bodies of Water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat…
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Nina and Olivia are joined by special guest Gabby Lopez @Mind.dies.nasty to discuss the Trump attempted assassination and the people who predicted it, from astrologers to internet schizophrenics. Nina reveals her idea for the ideal assassination and Gabby leaves us with some predictions for the next few months.…
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Siblings: Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris & Nisha Ramayya
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Siblings (Monitor Books) is a unique round-table discussion / poetry collection, convened by Will Harris, between Harris, Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan and Nisha Ramayya. The four poets explore real and imaginary siblings, writing communities, and the wayward directions of the lyric mode – writing as makers and friends about the possibilities that po…
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Nina and Olivia discuss the women who are serving and slaying this quarter including the internet’s hardest worker Trisha Paytas, rapper turned entrepreneur genius and or cheat M.I.A. and the woman who will be selected to be iconic perfume influencer Jeremy Fragrance’s wife. Also on the docket: a fourth of July recap, an investigation into baby goa…
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Love’s Work: James Butler, Rebekah Howes & Rowan Williams
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When Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work was published shortly before the author’s death in 1995, Marina Warner wrote in the LRB: ‘This small book contains multitudes. It fits to the hand like one of those knobbed hoops that do concise duty for the rosary, each knob giving the mind pause to open up to vistas of meditation on mysteries and passion.’ To mark …
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Harriet Baker & Lauren Elkin: Rural Hours
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1917: Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930: Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941: Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war,…
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Nina and Olivia discuss tradwives IRl and on the internet, including Nara Smith’s widespread appeal and controversies. We explore different attempts people take to control what they consume, from homesteading to paranoid reddit communities.By Apocalypse Wow!
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Lauren Oyler is one of our rowdiest and sharpest literary critics, twice causing the LRB website to crash from too much traffic, and author of the novel Fake Accounts. No Judgement is her first collection of non-fiction; a series of interlinked essays connecting internet gossip, the attention economy, and the role of criticism. Oyler is in conversa…
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Joe Dunthorne, Hanan Issa & Manon Steffan Ros: Wales in Words
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Three of Wales' best contemporary writers in an early St David's Day celebration of Wales in words. Novelist Joe Dunthorne, National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Carnegie prize-winning novelist and playwright Manon Steffan Ros explore the country's literary history, share its less-known treasures, and discuss the meaning of 'Welshness' today, in a …
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Fernanda Eberstadt & Olivia Laing: Bite Your Friends
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Fernanda Eberstadt’s Bite Your Friends is both a history of the body as a site of resistance to power, and a subversive memoir, drawing on a cast of outrageous heroes including Diogenes, Saint Perpetua, Pasolini, Pussy Riot and the political artist Piotr Pavlensky, who nailed his scrotum to the pavement of Red Square to protest Vladimir Putin’s tyr…
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Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets
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When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets is a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by int…
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Nina and Olivia discuss Donald Trump’s guilty sentencing and other notable politicians that have battled with the law, from Anthony Wiener to Sam Brinton, the Biden Nuclear engineer who stole luggage from airports.By Apocalypse Wow!
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Alexandra Harris & Laurence Scott: The Rising Down
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Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art of the 1930s and 40s (in Romantic Moderns); now, in The Rising Down (Faber & Faber) she turns it on the West Sussex landscape of her childhood, revealing the layers of buried lives beneath a familiar …
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Adam Shatz & Kevin Okoth: The Rebel's Clinic
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Frantz Fanon was only 36 when he died in 1961, but his books and ideas – from White Skin, Black Masks to The Wretched of the Earth – have proved lastingly influential. Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic is both a biography of Fanon and an in-depth study of his writing. Shatz, the US editor of the London Review of Books and the author of Writers & Miss…
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Nina and Olivia discuss the dueling Kennedys in the culture right now- brain worm afflicted RFK and thotty JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg. They dive into what makes the disappointing sons of political dynasties such good posters, and the epidemic of brain worms and other parasites near and far.By Apocalypse Wow!
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At the time of his death in 2017, the architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp (Private Eye’s ‘Piloti’) had nearly completed his monumental survey of British architecture between the world wars. His wife, the writer and historian Rosemary Hill, has edited the text for publication. Interwar: British Architecture 1919-1939 (Profile) is a refres…
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Nina and Olivia discuss the pull of the summer and rising social tensions in America including Nina’s impending fly infiltration, the proliferation of anti-Zionist student protests, and our dissenting takes on Alex Garland’s near future political thriller Civil War.By Apocalypse Wow!
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Jason Okundaye & Mendez: Revolutionary Acts
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In Revolutionary Acts (Faber), Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and listens as they share intimate memories and reflect upon their lives. Through their conversations he traces these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, seeking to reconcile the Black a…
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Aniefiok Ekpoudom & Gary Younge: Where We Come From
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Within the British music scene, recent years have borne witness to underground genres emerging from the inner cities, going on to become some of the most popular music in the nation. In Where We Come From, journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to explore the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the hea…
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Laleh Khalili & James Butler: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
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Laleh Khalili’s new book The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack) draws on her own experiences to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea, detailing (in the words of Steve Edwards) ‘the labouring bodies – hands, legs, and eyes; flesh and soul; suffering and solidarity – that make the worl…
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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 Adcock’s style has not dated in the half-century since her debut.’ Adcock was joined in c…
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Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers
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Holly Pester discusses her debut novel, The Lodgers, with Nathalie Olah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nina and Olivia discuss the recent wake of young women being punched in New York City as documented on TikTok, and the unlikely suspect longtime frenemy of the pod and gubernatorial candidate Skibooky Stora.By Apocalypse Wow!
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‘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. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation wi…
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Lara Pawson & Jennifer Hodgson: Spent Light
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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.
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Nina and Olivia unpack their latent anti British biases before discussing possible theories of where Kate Middleton is and brainstorming where they would go to Gone Girl.By Apocalypse Wow!
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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.
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