London Review Bookshop Podcast

Mar 19 2025 597 ep. 60 mins 3.5k
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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.

Find out about our upcoming events here https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod

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Legacy Russell & Rene Matić: Black Meme

Mar 19 2025 49 mins  
In Black Meme (Verso) Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media. Through imagery, memory, and technology, Black Meme shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding o

Thurston Moore & Jack Underwood: Sonic Life

Mar 12 2025 75 mins  
In his memoir Sonic Life (Faber), Thurston Moore recounts a life that has been defined by music. Following a childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany in the early 1960s, his infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave led him to move to New York City, where he immersed himself in the underground music and art scenes. In 1981 he co-founded the band Sonic Yo

Rachel Kushner & Adam Thirlwell: Creation Lake

Mar 05 2025 60 mins  
Described by Mick Herron as ‘seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall’, Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake (Cape) reaffirms her position as one of America’s most exciting and accomplished writers of fiction. In a reimagining of the spy novel for an age of ecological crisis, Kushner leads us to a remote Neanderthal cave in rural France where the enigm

Iona Heath & Sally Potter: John Berger – Ways of Learning

Feb 26 2025 68 mins  
In ‘a wonderful book about looking and learning’ (Gavin Francis) retired GP Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger’s work and friendship had on her working life as a doctor in a deprived London borough. Five decades of engagement with Berger’s work and twenty years of friendship with the man himself made her, she is convinced, a better doctor. Heath was in conve

Michelle Tea & Jeremy Atherton Lin: SLUTS

Feb 19 2025 68 mins  
Taking us from the awkwardness of middle school to the transcendence of a sex club, SLUTS: Anthology (Cipher Press) presents a diverse collection of writing – fiction and non-fiction, pro and con, philosophical and compulsive – exploring the eternally controversial word. Whether an insult or badge of honour, an identity or a state of mind, SLUTS engages some

Vigdis Hjorth & Lauren Oyler: If Only

Feb 12 2025 57 mins  
If Only – first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund – is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorth’s masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one woman’s life by an ill-advised affair. Hjorth (whose other novels in English include Is Mother Dead?, Will and Testament and Long Live the Post Horn!) is in co

Helen Charman & Lola Olufemi: Mother State

Feb 05 2025 60 mins  
In Mother State (Allen Lane), Helen Charman uses this provocative insight to write a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Women's Liberation and ending with austerity, the book follows mothers' fights for an alternative future. Here we see a world where motherhood is not a restrictive identity but a state of possibility. ‘Mother’ ceases to

Sarah Moss & Octavia Bright: My Good Bright Wolf

Jan 29 2025 54 mins  
Best known for her novels – most recently, 2021’s The Fell – now Sarah Moss has turned her hand to life-writing. My Good Bright Wolf unflinchingly details her experience of girlhood and anorexia in prose described by Jan Carson as ‘part memoir, part confessional, part dark and feverish fairytale’. Moss was in conversation with Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace.

Abi Palmer & Zarina Muhammad: Slugs – A Manifesto

Jan 22 2025 68 mins  
Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books) explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic language, artist Abi Palmer considers the politics of space, iridescent queerness, and shapeshifting viscous ‘slug time’. In the face of a potential apocalypse, Slugs: A Manifesto envisions a future where human

Sinéad Gleeson & Douglas Stuart: Hagstone

Jan 15 2025 51 mins  
In her first novel Hagstone (Fourth Estate), Sinéad Gleeson – who has, in the words of Anne Enright, ‘changed the Irish literary landscape through her advocacy for the female voice’ – explores the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural world in the setting of a remote island housing a commune of women seeking refuge from the m