📻 @jdcrawf.bsky.social talks to Solvej Balle about her 4th volume (there are spoilers if you haven't read 1-3) and the books that influenced her writing.
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It may not be the 18th of November but it is 'Selter Day' on BBCR4’s TAKE FOUR BOOKS as I talk to SOLVEJ BALLE about her @faberbooks.bsky.social serial novel ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME & her 3 influences - come join us in the time loop! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Take Four Books - Jenni Fagan - BBC Sounds On her newest novel, The Delusions, and the three literary works that helped shape it.

On BBC Sounds: Jenni Fagan discusses her new novel, THE DELUSIONS, in which she takes readers to the afterlife – or, at least, to its waiting room. Her chosen influences are Nina Cassian’s poem “Temptation”, Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, & Jeanette Winterson’s WEIGHT
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Listen now to my chat with Yann Martel on BBC R4 about new @canongate.co.uk novel SON OF NOBODY and his 3 influences: Homer's Iliad (as translated by Stephen Mitchell), Alice Oswald's poem Memorial & Edward Albee's classic 1960s play. From the Trojan War to marital war! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The 3 books I picked to talk about on #Take4Books today were Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, Tove Jansson’s Summer Book and Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women, all of which had a big influence on #FewAndFarBetween

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Brilliant guests on #TakeFourBooks in the last 2 weeks: Colm Toibin giving us THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN and then yesterday a fantastic chat with Susan Choi on FLASHLIGHT... Some fab influences too, from John McGahern's The Country Funeral, to Jenny Erpenbeck's Visitation... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just watching Scotland from the Air and looked up @jdcrawf.bsky.social to discover he's on here and his new R4 series sounds great

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Listen now to my BBC Radio 4 chat with John Lanchester about new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut! 🎧📚👇
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We have to share with our fellow R4 programmes! Would have loved George on TFB but we may revisit for pbk as he will be great talking about influences and craft. And it made for excellent Start the Week ep!

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The Vanishing Earth by James Crawford | Book A deeply reported journey into the scarred landscapes of global extraction. Humanity has remade the Earth with astonishing speed. In the last fifty years...

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The Vanishing Earth "Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers-strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane-who are stretching na…

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Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP
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It’s excellent isn’t it! Delighted the Andrew Miller episode has given you such reading pleasure!

Listen now to my BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCRadio4 I'm talking to Rob Doyle about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇
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Thanks Jeff! Really appreciate you saying that

Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to my BBC Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People'
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Christmas fantasy reading inspired by @jdcrawf.bsky.social Take Four Books episode with Katherine Rundell. Starting with the first in Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ series and then a re-read of the wonderful ‘Wizard of Earthsea’

Salman Rushdie was the latest guest on Take Four Books - talking to @jdcrawf.bsky.social about his new short story collection - The Eleventh Hour….catch up here…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with Salman Rushdie about new work THE ELEVENTH HOUR and his 3 picks of influences, including E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika & the Pied Piper of Hamelin! #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This - Take Four Books - always worth listening to.

Listen now to my BBCR4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks
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Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with @mccallsmith.bsky.social about new novel THE PRIVATE SIDE OF FRIENDSHIP and 3 influences, including W.H. Auden on unrequited love, Robin Dunbar’s “Friends”, and Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...