On The Critic Books podcast, Deputy Online Editor Francesca Peacock interviews authors about their recent publications, including novels, memoirs, poetry, and n...
📚From prison stints for defacing books, to the historical evolution of the “shelfie”, Emma Smith's Portable Magic is a riot of detail, scholarly insight, and fun. What gives a book its “bookhood“? What makes some volumes so collectable? Francesca Peacock is joined by the literary critic Lucasta Miller — author of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (2021) and The Brontë Myth (2001), amongst others — to discuss Smith's new work.
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24: Marjorie Grant Cook and Latchkey Ladies
On this episode, Francesca Peacock is joined by Sarah LeFanu to discuss Marjorie Grant's novel Latchkey Ladies, which has been out of print for just over a century. It was recently republished by Handheld Press, and Sarah — the author of a biography of Rose Macaulay — penned the introduction.
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23: How to be a cult writer
In this episode of The Critic Books Podcast, Francesca Peacock is in conversation with Alexander Larman about his piece in the April issue of the magazine: “How to be a cult writer”. What makes a writer “cult”? Is Iris Murdoch a cult writer? Is Ian McEwan? What is the difference between a cult figure and a coterie figure? All these questions are discussed, alongside Byron, Rochester, Virginia Woolf, and Nancy Mitford.
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22: DJ Taylor's Stewkey Blues
What makes it "Stewkey" rather than "Stifkey"? How has Norfolk and Norwich changed in the last few decades? What is different about writing short stories rather than novels? In this episode of The Critic books podcast, D J Taylor speaks about his new collection of short stories — all based in the Norfolk area.
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21: Amanda Craig's The Golden Rule
What happens when two women meet on the train and agree to murder their ex-husbands? Amanda Craig's latest novel is a panoramic look at Britain in the wake of Brexit, and asks what it takes to push people to their limits.
On The Critic Books podcast, Deputy Online Editor Francesca Peacock interviews authors about their recent publications, including novels, memoirs, poetry, and non fiction.
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