A.L. Kennedy & Tom Whyman
Book Shambles
Two guests on this week’s episode. Firstly Robin chats to A.L. Kennedy who returns to the podcast to chat about her new collection of short stories We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time and why she finds writing short stories a different, and sometimes harder, challenge than writing a novel. And then in the second half of the episode Josie talks to philosopher and author Tom Whyman about his book Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster. They chat about how the book was written pre-COVID and how being full of hope now is still possible, if more of a challenge!
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by A. L. Kennedy
Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster by Tom Whyman
The short stories of Anton Chekov
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The work of Raymond Carver
The work of Shirley Jackson
The work of Franz Kafka
The work of Jean Rhys
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Peepo! by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg
I Am Bat by Morag Hood
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution by Hannah Arendt
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
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