The Digested Read Podcast
1) Kazuo Ishiguro: roaring giant or sleeping dragon? – books podcast
John Crace boils down The Buried Giant and asks whether this genre-bending quest novel is destined for the halls of glory or the mists of forgetfulness
2) Harper Lee: a happy return to Maycomb? – books podcast
John Crace puts the squeeze on Go Set a Watchman, and considers its effect on the author’s reputation
3) Hillary Clinton: the big reveal? – books podcast
John Crace digests Hillary Clinton’s latest autobiography, and picks it over for clues to vital questions – what does she really think of Obama?
4) Haruki Murakami: Cult of the colourless? - books podcast
John Crace digests Murakami's latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage, and wonders if the bestselling Japanese author has bleached the life out of his fiction
5) Val McDermid: Jane Austen's equal? - books podcast
John Crace digests Val McDermid’s update of Northanger Abbey, and asks if her attempt to square up to Austen’s gothic melodrama is fine or foolhardy• More digested reads podcasts
6) Caitlin Moran: all about the girl, again - books podcast
John Crace digests Caitlin Moran’s debut novel, How to Build a Girl, down to 600 words, and wonders what it adds to the autobiography that set her on the crest of the fourth wave of feminism
7) Martin Amis: back in the danger zone? - books podcast
John Crace digests Martin Amis’s new novel The Zone of Interest down to 600 words, and wonders if he was wise to return to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
8) Stephen Fry: low tales of the high life - books podcast
John Crace digests Stephen Fry’s latest memoir, More Fool Me, down to 600 words, and finds the nation’s favourite luvvie adrift in a blizzard of names and white powder
9) Karl Ove Knausgaard : Proust or poseur? - books podcast
John Crace digests Karl Ove Knausgaard’s multi-volume autobiographical fiction, My Struggle, and asks if it is exceptional in anything apart from length • More digested read podcasts
10) Russell Brand: the raffish revolutionary - books podcast
In the first of a daily series of digested reads, John Crace considers Russell Brand’s political manifesto, RevolutionMore digested read podcasts