Podcast Episodes

Isobel Wohl and Lauren Elkin: Cold New Climate

Described by Claire Louise Bennett as ‘lithe and ambitious’ and by Toby Litt as ‘a miracle in book form’, Isobel Wohl’s debut Cold New Climate (Weath…

4 years, 10 months ago

Jacqueline Rose and Jude Kelly: On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Throughout her career and across her many books Jacqueline Rose has been teasing out the political implications of violence, and in particular the wa…

4 years, 11 months ago

Helen Mort and Dan Richards: No Map Could Show Them

Helen Mort and Dan Richards were at the shop to talk about poetry and mountaineering. Mort read from her latest collection from Chatto and Windus, No…

4 years, 11 months ago

Carrie Brownstein and Lavinia Greenlaw: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein was at the shop to discuss her book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, with Lavinia Greenlaw.

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4 years, 11 months ago

Katherine Angel & Olivia Laing: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

In Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (Verso)—spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on #MeToo, consent and feminism—…

4 years, 11 months ago

Chris Power and Alex Clark: A Lonely Man

Chris Power’s first novel A Lonely Man (Faber) is a powerful, menacing exploration of the nature of truth, fabrication and identity. ‘If you're a fan…

5 years ago

Rebecca Solnit and Mary Beard: ‘Recollections of My Nonexistence’

Beginning in San Francisco in 1981, the era of punk and nascent gay pride, Rebecca Solnit’s latest book Recollections of My Non-Existence (Granta) is…

5 years ago

Rachel Kushner and Hal Foster: The Hard Crowd

Already well-known for her novels – Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner has over the past two decades been writing ess…

5 years ago

Joshua Cohen and Jon Day: Moving Kings

Joshua Cohen, one of Granta magazines ‘Best Young American Writers’ for 2017, was at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel Moving Kin…

5 years ago

John Boughton and Owen Hatherley: Municipal Dreams

From this 2018 event: In Municipal Dreams (Verso), John Boughton charts the often surprising story of council housing in Britain, from the slum clear…

5 years ago