London Review Bookshop Podcast
1) Leonora Carrington: Marina Warner and Chloe Aridjis
On the publication of the first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short fiction,The Debutante and Other Stories (Silver Press) and the republication of her memoir Down Below in this centenary y...Show More
2) Kathryn Scanlan & Emily LaBarge: Aug 9 – Fog
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan (Kick the Latch, The Dominant Animal) acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois...Show More
3) Jeremy Atherton Lin & Diarmuid Hester: Deep House
Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Deep House (Allen Lane) is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. It’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams – just...Show More
4) Akshi Singh & Anouchka Grose: In Defence of Leisure
In her new book In Defence of Leisure (Cape), Akshi Singh presents Marion Milner as a writer for our times. In asking the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? Milner developed a metho...Show More
5) Geoff Dyer & Gareth Evans: Homework
Geoff Dyer has written books on every subject under the sun; now, at last, he turns his hand to memoir. Homework is his account of his childhood and adolescence in provincial England, as the only chil...Show More
6) Francesca Wade & Lara Pawson: On Gertrude Stein
Francesca Wade’s biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, follows on from her acclaimed Square Haunting (Faber, 2020) to present a portrait of one of 20th century modernism’s most rowdy and confoundin...Show More
7) Vittles Issue 1 launch
To mark its fifth anniversary, the online food and culture publication Vittles has produced its first print issue – an engaging mix of newly commissioned articles and a selection of some of the best e...Show More
8) Zarina Muhammad & Lola Olufemi on bell hooks’s Art on My Mind
To celebrate the Penguin Classics reissue of bell hooks’s Art on My Mind, Zarina Muhammad & Lola Olufemi discuss her work. More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week ...Show More
9) Danny Dorling & Arianne Shahvisi: The Next Crisis
If the first quarter of the 21st Century has been rich in one thing, it is anxiety. Pandemics, asteroids, climate change, global instability, the cost of living, tsunamis, migration – the list of thin...Show More
10) Lamorna Ash & James Butler: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever
In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever (Bloomsbury) Lamorna Ash, author of the coming-of-age memoir cum anthropological study of the Cornish fishing industry Dark, Salt, Clear, visits Evangelical youth fe...Show More