⏳It's almost time...
A new episode in which @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the Irish writer Kevin Power will be dropping very, very soon.
Together, they dive into TIME'S ARROW (1991).
“When I showed my agent a first draft, she said: ‘Jay, you’re going to get a lot of shit for some of this stuff.”
Jay McInerney talks about bringing The Calloway Chronicles to a close with @jackaldane.bsky.social at Parcelle in New York.
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🚨 NEW EPISODE ‼️
On the publication day of Jay McInerney’s 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚, the last of four novels that completes The Calloway Chronicles, we invite you to dinner at Parcelle in New York where @jackaldane.bsky.social and Jay discuss.
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🎟️SOLD OUT!🎟️
Today, we and Special Rider officially sold the last seat for our upcoming live podcast in Shepherd’s Bush Market, where on 23rd April, novelist Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
📚The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚
From today’s BBC Radio London with Robert Elms
💙📚 Recently finished #SpringNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Now what we don't want is Facts." In progress: #TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood #CharlesDickens
🔊 OUT ON 14 APRIL!
King of Literary NYC Jay McInerney meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in Manhattan to discuss the final instalment of his tetralogy of novels: 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚
Includes👇
📚 Nights out with Tom Cruise
📚 Choosing 🍷 over cocaine
📚 Knowing Norman Mailer
Downtown Manhattan with Ross Barkan, author of a new novel 📚Colossus📚, due out in April.
Thank you to Edward's, Ross's workaday lunch spot from his days as a City Hall reporter, in New York for having us.
@jackaldane.bsky.social
🔊 COMING UP in April next month…
Dr Kathleen Stock discusses a life and death matter with @jackaldane.bsky.social
📚 Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death 📚 , is out now.
New York stalwart writer Jay McInerney and @jackaldane.bsky.social wrap another fabulous episode of The Booking Club, discussing the novel that closes out Jay’s tetralogy known as The Calloway Chronicles: 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚.
🎧 New episode coming soon!
The Booking Club has teamed up with Special Rider to bring you a spectacular event with the writer Will Self, in which Will and @jackaldane.bsky.social will discuss:
📚THE QUANTITY THEORY OF MORALITY📚
All that's left now is for you to book your tickets.
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It’s a sort of minor tragedy that generally intelligent and well educated people don’t read any philosophy at all.
— Bryan Magee
🏹TIME'S ARROW INCOMING!
In April, the Irish writer and critic Kevin Power meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss Amis's 1991 novel, Time's Arrow.
Catch up on all episodes, including the latest with @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social 👇
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@jackaldane.bsky.social and guests are preparing to delve into the novel that have altered their perspectives for good.
Here's a taste of what's to come on The Lit Path, and why it matters that men read more fiction.
🔗 thelitpath.substack.com
🔊 LISTEN & WATCH NOW!
@jackaldane.bsky.social sits down with @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social to discuss what Amis’s 📚 Experience 📚 taught them about love and what to make of one of (very few) of Amis’s poems.
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👀On 23 APRIL
@jackaldane.bsky.social joins Will Self in conversation for The Booking Club LIVE in collab with Special Rider Books & Records 🎉
They discuss Self’s new novel 📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚and ask: How Good Are You, Exactly?
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
ALL 👀 ON THIS
Hosted by @jackaldane.bsky.social, The Lit Path is gearing up to uncover the unrecognised power of novels to positively influence the modern male psyche.
Follow us on all socials & subscribe to our Substack page for updates.
WATCH THE TRAILER🔗 thelitpath.substack.com/p/this-is-th...
The next episode invites @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social to discuss 📚Experience📚 with @jackaldane.bsky.social, under the studio lights at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Don't miss it!
Novelist Jay McInerney here with a message about his brand new novel 📚See You on the Other Side 📚, and where
@jackaldane.bsky.social and he will be meeting this spring 🌸🗽
🎧 NEXT MONTH... @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 for an evening with The Battle Book Club.
15TH APRIL, 7PM UK TIME
Book Yourself A Place in the Conversation📝 🔗 t.co/Tzvz3Q0cMe
🎧 LISTEN UP!
@jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 in a co-hosted Battle Book Club livestream on 15th April, 7pm UK Time
Come take part! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-boo...
@johnyorkestory.bsky.social has a top-notch book rec, and literary dream date to share with you all...
Well, look what just arrived.
☀️THIS SPRING, @jackaldane.bsky.social launches The Lit Path, a podcast about novels that have changed men's lives.
Because:
📚Boys & men need better stories
📚Women read far more fiction than men
📚Life is about more than atomic habits
We ask: What happens when men take novels seriously?
With statesmanlike calm, @georgemonaghan.bsky.social delivers a message of reassurance to listeners, alongside his colleague @nickpaulharris.bsky.social, about an ep that will see @jackaldane.bsky.social and the duo discuss 📚Experience📚, The Amis Papers at the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, & more.
@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the drift away from weighty political speech in favour of short-form soundbites within the UK House of Commons, and why we desperately need a reversal of the trend.
FULL EPISODE: t.co/turNhhiV83
This is Fig & Walnut in Bloomsbury, where @jackaldane.bsky.social met @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss Trip to the Moon 🌑
A perfect match of guest and subject... Every time this podcast returns to a novel it has already covered, it makes me want to re-read it yet again! (The scene with Richard and his son is one of the many Amis that sentences/phrases that has stayed with me.)
🔊 OUT NOW!
"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable."
David Szalay and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
✒️The first Amis novel David ever read
✒️The lessons for all writers in The Information
✒️Why Amis was right about style
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🚨 OUT TOMORROW!
David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about Martin Amis’s 🎾📚The Information📚🎾
⏰SET YOUR ALARMS! #martinamis
