Lit with Charles
By Charles Pignal
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Episodes: 116
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Welcome to Lit With Charles, a podcast on all things literary!
I'm Charles Pignal, and every fortnight I’m asking guests about the four books which have made the biggest impact on their lives and work.
If you're like me, you love literature – but maybe aren't always sure what you should be reading. The aim of this podcast is to make literature exciting and accessible; in each episode writers, artists, and other interesting people are giving real recommendations, to help you discover new books and authors off the beaten track. Here at Lit With Charles, every book has a story to tell.
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Santanu Bhattacharya, author of "Deviants"
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Sir Ben Okri, author of “The Famished Road” and “Waking the Warriors”
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Season 3 Finale: Charles & Olivia Reflect on the Highlights
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Andrew Miller, author of "The Land in Winter"
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Sarvat Hasin, author of "Strange Girls"
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Philippa Malicka, author of "In Her Defense"
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Leïla Slimani, author of "The Country of Others" & "Watch Us Dance" (Re-release)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Ask Me Anything: My Reading Life
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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JR Thornton, author of "Lucien"
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Lucy Caldwell, author of "Devotions"
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Michelle Steinbeck, author of "Favorita"
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Best Books of 2025
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Manish Chauhan, author of "Belgrave Road"
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Cosi Carnegie, Classics Historian
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Ilya Gridneff, author of "Your Name Here"
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Special 100th Episode
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Rosamund Bartlett, editor of "Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories"
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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James Geary, author of "The World in a Phrase"
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Liliana Colanzi, author of "You Glow in the Dark"
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Tessa Hadley, author of "The Party"
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Mairi Kidd, author of "Poor Creatures"
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Richard Scott, author of "Soho" and "That Broke into Shining Crystals"
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Tom Ayling, a bookseller for Jonkers Rare books (REPLAY)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Tom McCarthy, author of "The Threshold and The Ledger"
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Alexander Starritt, author of "We Germans"
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Benjamin Pester, author of "The Expansion Project"
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Amy Twigg, author of "Spoilt Creatures"
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Alice Austen, author of "33 Place Brugmann"
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Caitlin Macy
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Joanna Pocock, author of "Greyhound"
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Tash Aw, author of "The South"
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Gethan Dick, author of "Water in the Desert Fire in the Night"
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Damon Galgut, author of "In A Strange Room"
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Ed Park, author of "An Oral History of Atlantis"
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Sue Prideaux, author of "Wild Thing"
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Aatish Taseer, author of "A Return to Self"
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Lee Cole, author of "Fulfillment"
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Best of Season 2
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May 19, 2025 |
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Francesca Wade, author of "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife"
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May 06, 2025 |
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Sarah Maria Griffin, author of “Eat the Ones You Love”
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Book Club Bites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her latest novel “Dream Count”
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Book Club Bites: James Baldwin, author of "Giovanni's Room"
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of "Strange Beach"
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Ben Markovits, author of "The Rest of Our Lives"
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Maryam Diener, author of "Parallel Lives"
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Michael Amherst, author of the "The Boyhood of Cain"
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Rachel Cockerell, author of "Melting Point"
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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The Best Books I've Read This Year
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Lionel Barber, author of "The Gambling Man"
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Susanna Crossman, author of "Home is Where We Start"
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Arthur Larrue, author of "La Diagonale Alekhine"
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Mid-Season Episode: 10 Questions for Charles
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Vanessa Beaumont, author of "The Other Side of Paradise"
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Eric Chacour, author of "What I Know About You"
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Florence Gaub, author of "The Future"
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Charlie Higson, author of "On His Majesty's Secret Service"
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams, authors of "Kubrick: An Odyssey"
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Leïla Slimani, author of "The Country of Others" & "Watch Us Dance"
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Aniefiok Ekpoudom, author of "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain"
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Ilaria Bernardini, author of "We Will Be Forest"
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Peter Singer, philosopher and author of "Animal Liberation Now"
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Katie Gee Salisbury, author of "Not Your China Doll"
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Ingrid Persaud, author of The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
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May 20, 2024 |
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Best of Season 1
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory"
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Lauren Collins, author of "When in French"
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Violaine Huisman, author of "The Book of Mother"
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Kate Slotover of The Book Club Review podcast
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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My top books of 2023
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Nandini Das, author of "Courting India" & Winner of British Academy Prize
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Lauren Easum, founder of Ex-Libris
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Blindboy Boatclub, author of “Topographia Hibernica”
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Irene Vallejo, author of "Papyrus"
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Farah Nayeri, author of "Takedown"
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Tom Williams, film producer
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Shrayana Bhattacharya, author of "Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh"
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Avery Carpenter, author of "Social Engagement"
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Matthew Roby, professor on Icelandic sagas
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Rose Cleary, author of "How To Be a French Girl"
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Chloe Aridjis, author of "Asunder"
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Charles Glass, author of "Soldiers Don't Go Mad"
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Yascha Mounk, author of "The Identity Trap"
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Chuck Marohn, host of "The Strong Towns" podcast
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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James MacManus, author of "Love in a Lost Land" and Managing Director of the Times Literary Supplement
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Olivia Sudjic, author of "Asylum Road"
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Robert Samuels, author of "His Name is George Floyd"
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Junot Díaz, author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and "This Is How You Lose Her"
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Iona Lee, poet
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Angela Rodel, translator of "Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Martin Panchaud, author of the graphic novel "La Couleur des Choses"
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Joseph O'Neill, author of "Netherland" and "The Dog"
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Marva Barnett, academic specialist on Victor Hugo
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Orfeo Tagiuri, artist and author of "Little Passing Thoughts"
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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AJ Bermudez, author of "Stories No One Hopes Are About Them"
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Ann-Helen Laestadius, author of "Stolen"
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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DT Max, biographer of David Foster Wallace - Part 2
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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DT Max, biographer of David Foster Wallace - Part 1
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen, authors of "The Library: A Fragile History"
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Jessica Ewing, CEO of Literati
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May 29, 2023 |
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of "Self-Portrait in Black & White"
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May 22, 2023 |
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Gary Wigglesworth, quizmaster
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May 15, 2023 |
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Tarajia Morell, author of "Savor"
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May 08, 2023 |
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Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute
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May 01, 2023 |
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Dimitry Leger, author of "God Loves Haiti"
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Ed Hawkins, author of "The Men on Magic Carpets"
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Tom Ayling, a bookseller for Jonkers Rare Books
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Matthew Campbell, author of "Dead in the Water"
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director of the Bata Shoe Museum
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Nina Freudenberger, author of "Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home With Books"
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Laura Potter and Kate Slotover, the hosts of The Book Club Review Podcast
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Alice Sherwood, author of "Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture"
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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James Crabtree, author of "The Billionaire Raj"
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Benjamin Moser, author of "Sontag: Her Life and Work"
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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David Edmonds, author of "Wittgenstein's Poker”
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Caitlin Macy, author of "A Blind Corner"
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Trailer
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Feb 02, 2023 |