Helen Zaltzman
Book Shambles
A triple podcast crossover this week as Vitriola’s Michael Legge subs in for Josie Long and our guest is The Allusionist’s Helen Zaltzman in the studio with Robin. They chat about favourite showbiz memoirs and diaries, Scientology books and the time Iggy Pop stage dived at an eleven year old and landed on his face.
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Reading List
Helen recommends:
The Viz comics
This Really Isn’t About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein
Fool on the Hill by Max Wall
Send Yourself Roses by Kathleen Turner
A Memoir by Cyndi Lauper
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
All That Glitters by Pearl Lowe
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Stiff by Mary Roach
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Robin recommends:
I’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The work of Philip K Dick
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
The work of Dick Francis
The Derek Jarman diaries
The Kenneth William Diaries by Kenneth Williams
The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die by Roger Moore
The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton
Must the Show Go On by Les Dennis
Michael recommends:
Roger Moore’s many autobiographies
The Python Years by Michael Palin
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges by Jeff Gold and Iggy Pop
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