Jon Ronson
Book Shambles EXTRAWith the Cosmic Genome site buzzing this week with the launch of our new series, The Quest For Wonder, we thought we’d celebrate with a Book Shambles special. Author Jon Ronson joins Robin and Josie to talk about the influences on his own work, Hunter S Thompson, Albert Camus and a whole lot more.
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Jon recommends:
R.D. Laing: A Biography by Adrian Laing
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Clubbed Class by Jon Ronson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Holidays in Hell by P.J. O’Rourke
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
Thy Neighbour’s Wife by Gay Talese
The work of Joe Eszterhas
A Book For Her by Bridget Christie
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
The International Jew by Henry Ford
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The White Album by Joan Didion
The work of Albert Camus
Robin recommends:
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R.D. Laing
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
Frank by Jon Ronson
Them by Jon Ronson
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Friends Reunited by Andrew Collins
The Big I Am by Ralph Steadman
I Leonardo by Ralph Steadman
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Blood and Guts 26 mins
The Little Price by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The work of Richard Feynman
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke
Josie recommends:
When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Jon Snow
Off You Go by Maeve Higgins
That Girl From Nowhere by Dorothy Koomson
Shades of Meaning by Samuel R. Levin
The work of Raymond Carver
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