Ruarri Joseph
Book ShamblesRuarri Joseph is a singer-songwriter and frontman for the band William The Conqueror. He’s just written his first novel, of the same name, (available for pre-order now) which is an ‘auto fiction’ or maybe a ‘meta biography’. He chats to Robin about the challenges of writing a novel compared to a screenplay or a song, moving away from folk music, the inspiration of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders and a whole lot more.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
William the Conqueror by Ruarri Joseph
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Your Friend Forever by Zena Barrie
Knulp by Hermann Hesse
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
On the Trail of Stardust by Jon Larsen
