Dec 25, 2020
Last year at about this time David Gilmour and I sat down together to talk about "Mojave" one of Truman Capote's greatest short stories. We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to do it again, this time with "Shut a Final Door."
Capote wrote this story when he was only 23 years old. David contends that it strongly...
Dec 21, 2020
Virago is a
London-based British publishing company committed to publishing
women's writing and books on "feminist" topics. Established
by women in the 1970s in tandem with the Women's Liberation
Movement (WLM), Virago has done much to address inequitable gender
dynamics in the publishing world, and, unlike...
Dec 13, 2020
Martin Amis was born in
Oxford in 1949 and is a British novelist, essayist, and memoirist -
all of whom show up to contribute to his latest novel, Inside
Story.
As it happens I read
Lolita in tandem with Inside Story, so the
front-end of our conversation is laden with nasty
Nabokovian-related questions. Since...
David Mason on his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder, Part ll
Dec 5, 2020
Sly, sparkling, and endearingly gruff, David Mason is an engrossing conversationalist; a giant in the book trade whose infectious enthusiasm, human insight, commercial shrewdness, and deadpan humour are all on display here in part ll of our discussion about his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder.
Listen to Part l