Summer Reading 2021
Backlisted6 Syys 2021

Summer Reading 2021

It’s time for our annual look at what we’ve been reading over the summer break. John, Andy and Nicky discuss David Keenan’s fourth novel Monument Maker; Open Water, a promising debut novella from Caleb Azumah Nelson; Deborah Levy’s three-volume ‘living autobiography’, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate; a reissue of Percival Everett’s satirical diatribe Erasure; Life With a Capital L, Geoff Dyer’s selection of essays by D.H. Lawrence; and Vivian Gornick’s The End of the Novel of Love and Unfinished Business, in which the author re-reads favourite classic books and comes to fresh conclusions about them. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 06:12 - Monument Maker by David Keenan 17:47 - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 25:24 - Erasure by Percival Everett 33:38 - Things I Don’t Want to Know; The Cost of Living; Real Estate by Deberah Levy 40:55 - Life With A Capital L: Essays by D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer 48:33 - The End of the Novel of Love; Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner's debut novel 'Lolly Willowes' is the main book under discussion in this episode. It's nominated by journalist, author & playwright Samantha Ellis, and she discusses witchcraft,...

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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Author and playwright Alice Jolly joins the Backlisted crew to discuss The Great Fire by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. Also, AA Gill and Spike Milligan have been Read This Week, and why it might ...

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Passing by Nella Larsen

Passing by Nella Larsen

In episode 6 of the Backlisted Podcast we're joined by Sarah Churchwell, professorial fellow in American literature and chair of public understanding of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study,...

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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

Emmy award winning writer and broadcaster David Quantick (Veep, The Thick of It, TV Burp) joins John and Andy in the Unbound offices to discuss his favourite novel, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry b...

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The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

John, Andy and Mathew Clayton discuss Nancy Mitford's novel 'The Blessing' with Nancy's biographer Laura Thompson. Plus, what it feels like to finish 'Finnegans Wake', 'bloke's books', and the rudest ...

11 Tammi 201653min

It Had To Be You by David Nobbs

It Had To Be You by David Nobbs

Andy Miller and John Mitchinson, a/k/a/ Leavis & Butthead, return with another episode of the podcast which gives new life to old books. In this episode they're joined by Jonathan Coe, author of The R...

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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by author Linda Grant and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss 'Good Morning, Midnight' by 'Wide Sargasso Sea' author Jean Rhys. Plus perfume, the previously ...

14 Joulu 201552min

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

In the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton discuss JL Carr's 'A Month in the Country'. Timings...

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