The Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast
1) Richard Phoenix on Island
What would your utopia look like?A socialist state where everyone shares the same communal underwear, and you stay in the education system until retirement age?A fascistic wonderland where you’re forc...Show More
2) Sam Reid on Never Let Me Go
I once saw Carey Mulligan in the bar at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square.In my memory, it was just the two of us. Or at least, it was quiet. I seem to remember the bar was downstairs. Or it wa...Show More
3) Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
You could spend an entire podcast unpicking the bizarre circumstances that found a working-class kid from Grimsby on a business class flight to Las Vegas, reading a book about an American ex-marine gr...Show More
4) Toby Litt on Shōbōgenzō, or The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Shōbōgenzō, he said.Bless you, I replied, and passed him a tissue.No, you idiot. That’s the book. I want to talk about Shōbōgenzō, The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.It’s the time of year, I said. He...Show More
5) Hannah Patterson on On the Calculation of Volume
What if, instead of trying to date Andie MacDowell, Bill Murray had spent Groundhog Day questioning existence in Danish?Granted, it’s not a what-if you’ve probably thought about before.Yet in many way...Show More
6) Gurnaik Johal on The Topeka School
Ah, Ben Lerner.Who doesn’t love Ben Lerner?Seriously. Get in touch.That said, despite being a big fan of his work, I also find him maddening at times. Partly because I wish I could write as cleverly a...Show More
7) Jenn Ashworth on Of Walking in Ice
You’ve got to love Werner Herzog.Confronted with the news that his friend was dying, his reaction was to walk 500-plus miles across Europe (during Winter) to see her.He declared the world would “not p...Show More
8) Anna Whitwham on The Waterbearers
Toni Morrison wrote that you can’t understand the history of America unless you understand the history of African American women.Reading The Waterbearers by Sasha Bonét, I see why.The Toni Morrison qu...Show More
9) Glen James Brown on Smallcreep's Day
After he’d written Smallcreep’s Day, Peter Currell Brown never wrote another book.He disappeared from the world of literature completely and started making strange ceramic pots in the woods.I mean, we...Show More
10) Meg Remy/U.S. Girls on Sandfuture
Do you know who designed the Twin Towers?Probably not.Chances are, you don’t know who designed most of the buildings you instantly recognize.Why is that?Well, this is one of many fascinating ideas I e...Show More