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The Digested Read: The Shack
John Crace presents his cult G2 column in which he summarises and satirises recently published novels
John Crace, guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 14 2008
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Guardian Books interviews James Frey
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Aug 14 2008:
James Frey talks about being exposed for lying in a 'memoir', his defiant attitude to critics and his bid to write the Great American Novel
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Big Chill podcast: spoken word highlights
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(29min 48sec):
Aug 5 2008:
Performance poet Ty presents the best of the spoken word content at the 2008 Big Chill festival at Eastnor. We hear from Jean Binta Breeze, John Hegley, Bill Bailey, Kim Trusty, Ital Source, D'Archetypes and Toby Litt
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Guardian book club podcast: Salman Rushdie on Midnight's Children
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(42min 32sec):
Aug 1 2008:
Salman Rushdie speaks to John Mullan about his novel Midnight's Children and takes questions from the audience at the Guardian book club
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Books podcast: Richard Lea talks to Zhu Wen
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(5min 00sec):
Jul 30 2008:
Richard Lea talks to film-maker and author Zhu Wen about how his caustic short stories revolutionised Chinese fiction
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John Crace digests Biggles in the Baltic
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(6min 51sec):
Jul 28 2008:
Chocs away as John Crace tackles Biggles in this thrilling episode of the Digested Read
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Authors reveal their key words
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(18min 40sec):
Jul 21 2008:
Authors appearing at the Villa Gillet in Lyon at the International Forum have been asked to bring along a word which offers a way in to their work. Olivia Rosenthal, Dimitri Verhulst, Nelly Arcan, Arthur Japin and Anne Weber explain their choices
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Guardian book club podcast: Iain Banks on The Wasp Factory
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(51min 44sec):
Jul 18 2008:
Iain Banks speaks to John Mullan about his novel The Wasp Factory and takes questions from the audience at the Guardian book club
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Nell Leyshon reads The Voice
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(16min 07sec):
Jul 15 2008:
Award-winning author Nell Leyshon reads her short story The Voice, which tells of a daughter's vigil for her mother and her lost childhood
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Lorrie Moore
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(24min 39sec):
Jul 7 2008:
Lorrie Moore, whose Collected Stories have just been published to wide acclaim, reads Paper Losses, an acerbic tale of a once-happy marriage, now 'a dance team of bad feeling'
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Guardian book club podcast: Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting
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(39min 08sec):
Jul 4 2008:
Irvine Welsh speaks to John Mullan about his novel Trainspotting and takes questions from the audience at the Guardian book club
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Joseph O'Neill talks about his novel Netherland
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Jun 30 2008:
Joseph O'Neill talks about his novel Netherland, a post-colonial tale of identity that has won the author comparisons with Saul Bellow and VS Naipaul
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