Jim Bob
Book Shambles
Author JB Morrison, who you might know better as Jim Bob, frontman of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, joins Robin and Josie in the studio this week. They talk about moving from songwriter to novel writer and his new memoir In the Shadow of My Former Self which is out very soon. Plus there’s chat of Cormac McCarthy, Jean Rhys and Status Quo. Because of course there is.
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Reading List
Jim recommends:
Goodnight Jim Bob: On the Road with Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine by Jim Bob
The Wonder Stuff Diaries by Miles Hunt
Life by Keith Richards
XS All Areas: The Status Quo Autobiography by Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
The work of David Sedaris
The work of Willy Vlautin
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
The work of Cormac McCarthy
Robin recommends:
Storage Stories by Jim Bob
Jim Bob From Carter: In the Shadow of My Former Self by Jim Bob
The Big Wheel by Bruce Thomas
My Tune by Simon Bates
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
Bad News by Edward St Aubyn
Josie recommends:
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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