S14, Ep4 How To Fail: Natasha Brown

S14, Ep4 How To Fail: Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown is the author behind one of my favourite novels of recent years. Assembly runs to 100-pages and has already been compared to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. It was shortlisted for both the Folio and the Goldsmiths Prize, as well as being named the Foyles Bookshop Book of the Year. It tells the story of an unnamed Black British woman working at a bank in the city, who is confronted with the numbing aggression of racist encounters and systems as she confronts a life-or-death decision.When I first met Natasha, I knew I had to get her on the podcast. She is so wise, clever and emotionally intelligent. She talks to me about failures in social media, learning French and a tele-sales job that taught her about the power of language itself. We also discuss how she feels about failure given her objective levels of success, the concept of separating your own identity from what it is you do, race as a construct and what 'privilege' really means (if anything). Also: what she learned from studying Maths at university (yes, she's one of a select bunch of novelists with a Maths degree, including David Foster Wallace...).--Assembly by Natasha Brown is now out in paperback and available here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444/444275/assembly/9780241992661.html--How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com--Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayHow To Fail @howtofailpod Natasha Brown @wordsbynatasha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton

S2, Ep1 How to Fail: Jessie Burton

We're BACK! How To Fail With Elizabeth Day returns for a second season, and to kick this one off, I'm joined by mega-star, besteslling author Jessie Burton.Burton's 2014 debut novel, The Miniaturist, ...

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How to Fail: End of Season 1

How to Fail: End of Season 1

A thank you from Elizabeth for listening to the first season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day and a sneak peek of the guests lined up for season two. See you in October! How To Fail is hosted by Eliz...

30 Aug 20184min

S1, Ep8 How to Fail: Elizabeth Day

S1, Ep8 How to Fail: Elizabeth Day

For the last episode of the first season of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, our interviewee is…well…Elizabeth Day. Which means I’m currently writing shownotes about myself in the third person. Which i...

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S1, Ep7 How to Fail: David Nicholls

S1, Ep7 How to Fail: David Nicholls

David Nicholls, bestselling novelist, critically acclaimed screenwriter, aspiring piano player and thoroughly nice man, joins How To Fail to talk about his myriad failures. You might not expect the au...

22 Aug 201845min

S1, Ep6 How to Fail: Gina Miller

S1, Ep6 How to Fail: Gina Miller

Political activist Gina Miller is best known for one major victory when she successfully took the government to court over the triggering of Article 50 to leave the European Union. But in this week’s ...

15 Aug 201842min

S1, Ep5 How to Fail: Olivia Laing

S1, Ep5 How to Fail: Olivia Laing

This week on How To Fail, we’re joined by the brilliant writer Olivia Laing. Her three critically-acclaimed works of non-fiction, To The River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City, have explor...

8 Aug 201846min

S1, Ep4 How to Fail: Sathnam Sanghera

S1, Ep4 How to Fail: Sathnam Sanghera

This week, journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera joins How To Fail and kicks off by saying how flattered he was to be asked to contribute to a podcast on failure because he hates hearing nice things ...

1 Aug 201847min

S1, Ep3 How to Fail: Dolly Alderton

S1, Ep3 How to Fail: Dolly Alderton

This week’s guest on How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is memoirist, podcaster and journalist Dolly Alderton. Dolly, the co-host of the utterly fantastic The High Low podcast and author of the brilliant ...

25 Juli 201851min

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