And here discusses her deeply affecting, approved, fourth novel Intimacies with S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. We loved Intimacies so much we put it in our Year of Reading subscription.
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As the S&Co podcast took its summer break, we gave you this fascinating and funny conversation between Pola Oloixarac and recorded on the bookshop terrace on 19th July.
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For la rentrée we welcomed the wonderful , with us to discuss her mesmerising new novel The Island of Missing Trees, a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma.
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Then we took a plunge into the wild mind of and his latest novel, the hallucinatory masterpiece Monument Maker, published by .
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Next up was one of the most innovative and fearless writers at work today, Claire-Louise Bennett, whose CHECKOUT 19 explores class, freedom, adolescence, transcendence, sexual politics and artistic synthesis.
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As autumn kicked in, we welcomed the twice Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy to discuss The Making of Incarnation, a novel that asks some of the most pressing but also most confounding questions of our age.
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Our final guest in September was the brilliant Leïla Slimani discussing The Country of Others, her deeply moving, Steinbeckian family drama set against the grand sweep of Moroccan and French history.
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October saw journalist and stalwart join Adam to discuss How to Be a Liberal, his history of—and rallying cry for—“the single most radical political programme in the history of humankind.”
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In October Anuk Arudpragasm dropped by to discuss A Passage North, his Booker-shortlisted story of age and youth, loss and survival in Sri Lanka.
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Then we entered #podcast crossover territory as Adam was joined by Professor David Runciman, presenter of the hugely popular for a conversation about David's brilliant new book Confronting Leviathan.
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Next came a collaboration with , showcasing 3 poetry titles: Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, tr. Nandana Dev Sen; Allegri by Giuseppe Ungaretti, tr. Geoffrey Brock; And Until the Lions by Karthika Naïr.
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As October drew to a close we welcomed Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers, discussing Bewilderment, his moving and visionary, Booker-shortlisted novel about a bereaved father and his neurodiverse son.
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In November we were joined by Eimear McBride, discussing her first book of non-fiction Something Out of Place, a blistering and astute polemic against the patriarchy.
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The week after, Adam was joined by comedy-legend to discuss Pandemonium, his riotous but affecting mock-epic about the mistakes made and palms-greased during the British government’s handling of the pandemic.
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Next up was discussing her wild, taboo-busting debut novel The Appointment, a transgressive, spiky and very, very funny monologue about sex, nationhood, shame . . . and often all three combined.
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Our last podcast in November was with the poets and discussing their formally inventive, wildly readable new collections.
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Finishing our run-down of the year’s podcasts, we began December with the extraordinary and her radical work of historical fiction, Matrix.
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Then we welcomed back for a conversation about his wonderful, cetacean-laced Albert & the Whale…
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Mid-December, we were visited by Ayşegül Savaş whose White on White is about art and artists, parents and children, beauty and class, as well as the quest for perfection and the compromises we make in pursuit of it.
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Just before Christmas we spoke with Sarah Hall about Burntcoat, called “dark and brilliant” by Sarah Moss and “a masterpiece” by Daisy Johnson.
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As a special Christmas treat we gave our listeners an extract of the brilliant reading from Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
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And finally, two days ago, we welcomed Claire Messud, whose sparkling novella A Dream Life has just been published by our dear friend .
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