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🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸
This week’s guest is A.M. Homes whose new novel The Unfolding invites readers into the lives of a wealthy, John-McCain supporting Republican family o…
3 years, 8 months ago
🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇
This week's guest is Tess Gunty, winner of the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel The Rabbit Hutch.
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The Rabbit Hutch is a low-cost ho…
3 years, 8 months ago
☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭
This week’s guest is Stephen May whose fifth novel, Sell Us the Rope is a fictional retelling of events surrounding the 5th Congress of the Russian S…
3 years, 8 months ago
After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz
This week we welcome Booker-longlisted Selby Wynn Schwartz, whose debut novel After Sappho is a fountain of fleeting fragments that together depict i…
3 years, 9 months ago
👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾
The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid’s startling new novel, holds up a shattered mirror to readers, reflecting back a recognisable, but heightened and re…
3 years, 9 months ago
⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛
Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility is a book of large scope—spanning more than four centuries—and even larger ideas. In fewer than 300 pages w…
3 years, 9 months ago
🎓😵💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵💫🎓
This week we welcome former S&Co bookseller, Elaine Hsieh Chou, to discuss Disorientation, a campus novel retooled for the 21st century. Disorientati…
3 years, 9 months ago
🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧
This week we’re joined by former diplomat Arthur Snell to discuss How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 19…
3 years, 10 months ago
🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
There are few people who can write so brilliantly, about so many subjects, all at once, as Geoff Dyer. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endi…
3 years, 10 months ago
👨❤️👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨❤️👨
This week’s guest is Michael Pedersen, whose new book Boy Friends is a profoundly personal, searingly honest examination of grief, inspired by the de…
3 years, 10 months ago