by Lucy Hounsom | June 24, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS95 years after it was first published, the copyright on The Great Gatsby has expired. This great American novel has sold over 25 million copies since it was first published, despite initially disappointing sales. It...
by Megan Leigh | June 17, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe actually recorded this episode WAY back in January, just after Biden’s inauguration in the US. So, naturally, there is a bit of politics in this one given how wrapped up we all were in what was going...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 10, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe frontier. The edge of civilisation. So far from the central government that laws are more like ‘guidelines’. Where the sheriffs are crooked and the criminals ruthless; trains rarely go un-sacked and...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 27, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOur identity is who we are. But for such a seemingly simple concept, our identities are extremely complex. We aren’t the only ones who decide our identities. Society places labels on us that we often don’t feel...
by Megan Leigh | May 13, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe basic principles of writing a book are simple – come up with an idea, write it. Of course, it isn’t really that simple, it is a lot of hard work, but that’s about the size of it, right? Well, not...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 29, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhy do we need monsters in our fiction? Why do we want to be frightened? When they pick up a book, do readers enter into a pact with a writer, as Catriona Ward describes: a pact that says I share your fear,...
