Literary Loitering | Cultural Anarchy with Books and The Arts

So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid away a couple of episodes.   This time around we have tales of a secret but obvious message left by a librarian, an art dealer’s racist selfies, a scholar who lied about their race, a painter’s untrue memoirs, a fake Rembrandt painting that isn’t fake and all sorts of other stuff.    We also have a quiz about badly translated quotes. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find strange tidings that include tales of someone doing something nice on Twitter, Logjam Day, re-issuing books under their author’s original pen-names, stage performances on Zoom, lectures from bubble-blowing sharks and more. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

Cultural anarchy is the order of the day as the Literary Loitering gang sashay back into the foreground with a pocket full of news and other oddities. On this episode we've got dead language confusion involving the tag line of Sean Hannity's new book, John Boyne's surprising connection to The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, publishing contracts for four year-old poets, controversy about Flashing Swords that doesn't involve trench coats (maybe), ironically accidental art destruction and more. We also have the return of our quiz about badly translated movie titles. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

These are strange times we're living in, which is why it's good to carry a stick as part of your EDC. A good stick is a very useful object as it can be used as a walking aid, for fishing, thrashing, emergency kindling, and in the case of our resident cultural anarchists, poking fun at the world (while avoiding surprise bears). This week we discover that Ready Player One is somehow getting a sequel (we're not sure how that's going to work either). In other more important news, there's a new collection of Terry Pratchett short stories due for publication, The Great Gatsby is now in the public domain (which means all of that fanfiction can now be published), Donald Trump Jr. has apparently written another book (we still haven't discovered why he was fired the first time), someone is going around collecting mountweazels, and all sorts of other stuff. We also have another of our semi-regular quizzes, and this time it's all about mondegreens (misheard lyrics). If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #ReadyPlayerOne #Mountweazels #Mondegreens #Quiz #TerryPratchett #TheGreatGatsby

It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West).   In the news this week are Waterstone’s “controversial” idea about displaying books, why you shouldn’t microwave books, yet another tell-all book about Donald Trump, things that make you go … really?!, and other tales from the apocalypso (other tropical shirt-wearing armageddons also probably exist somewhere).   Oh, and GRR Martin is typing … allegedly.   After all that it’s the return of our book title Blankety Blank so get ready for some odd questions and even odder answers. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff.    Oh Twitter. How you amuse us.    After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an article by Sam Mendes about practical ways to maintain theatres and support actors during times of lock-down, Waterstone’s strange yet somehow logical idea to quarantine books if any customer touches them, changes to the publishing schedule due to the lock-down, dogs reviewing books, and the plagiarism controversy surrounding Agatha Christie.    After that it’s time for another quiz, and this time Graham’s got some rather odd book covers for classic novels. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is  … penguins visiting and art gallery.   Looks like we have a winner!   After that it’s more usual fare (the word usual is used very loosely), children’s books by children, children’s books by James Patterson, a Woody Allen film taking the number one spot at the global box office, MP Michael Gove’s questionable bookshelf, republished Johnson fiction (this time it’s Dad), real-life-yet-still-fictional Terry Mindhunter, and what may be an early entry (pardon the fully intended pun), into the Bad Sex Awards.   We also have a quiz about translations of English words into other languages, and vice versa. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

We’re back once again with those renegade masters of cultural anarchy, and this week we make our usual pit-stop to find out what everyone’s been reading before diving straight into some news … about VAT.    It’s actually more interesting than you think. Honest!   After that we have some things about spying on the bookshelves of politicians, some unsurprising additions to the American Library Associations list of “most challenged” books, the banning of some very surprising books by an Alaskan school board, the top three biggest-selling authors in America for 2019 and more.   Then it’s time for our now seemingly regular quiz, and this week Producer Rob has a Blankety Blank about strange book titles. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture 

Weird things happen when you're locked up, and as usual it's up to Literary Loitering to ... poke gentle fun with a big stick ... at the books and arts world. So what did our stay-at-home cultural anarchists discover before being bamboozled by a barrage of obsolete words? Well, aside from the French authors Leïla Slimani and Marie Darrieussecq (try spelling that in the dark), being called elitist and compared to Marie Antoinette, there are radio plays replacing theatre productions, online all-star cast recitations of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, the rise of quarantine book clubs, an internet nazi invasion of an Archers podcast's online meet up, abject plagiarism making the Booker long list, letters from Big Papa Hemingway and more. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture

These are strange times that we live in, but during these days of pandemic, social distancing and lockdowns, it's nice to find that the world of culture is still just as strange as it ever was. This week the gang are bamboozled by a barrage of old words, but before that things like publishing a chapter per day on Vogue's website, book fairies, dial-a-miracle, digital rectum removal in musicals (one musical that is, not all of them), and all sorts of other stuff get put under the microscope of cultural anarchy. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #LenaDunham #Vogue #Publishing #BookFairies #Lockdown #Pandemic #Miracles #MuseumCatharijneconvent #StephenKing #TheStand #Cats #DirectorsCommentary #ButtholeCut #TomHooper #Amazon #AntiSemitism #MeinKampf #TonyRoss #ChildrensBooks #IDontWantToWashMyHands

After a short hiatus (for several reasons which include an attempted podcast coup-de-tat across The Geek Show), the cultural anarchists are back where they belong.    Where that is remains a mystery.   Anyway, this time we’ve got the long-awaited continuation of Game of Thrones-watch featuring Grr Martin and flying dinosaurs. In other news, the 1981 novel The Eyes Of Darkness by Dean Koontz apparently predicted the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic (it didn’t), writing book reviews means you can’t be on a jury (according to Harvey Weinstein), a creepy group of pick-up “artists” are using a bookshop in Australia to practice “skills”, Barnes & Noble controversially celebrate Black History Month and more. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #GameOfThrones #Pterosaurs #Dinosaurs #TheEyesOfDarkness #DeanKoontz #CoronaVirus #HarveyWeinstein #BarnesAndNoble #BlackHistoryMonth #RageAgainstTheMachine #Dragons

It’s Takeover week here on The Geek Show Network, and since we were so rudely shoved out of our usual seat by the boys from Cinema Eclectica we decided to run riot over the crazy paved paths of Literary Loitering.    So how does one cram superheroes into art and literature, or literary characters into comics? That’s what we’re here to find out …   After that it’s time for our slice of comic-book goodness which this week include Symbiote Spider-man, Jack Staff by Paul Grist, and the audio-book Thor: Metal Gods from Serial Box. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #4Panel #TheGeekShow #News #Comics #Manga #Reviews #Podcasts #GraphicNovels #Superheroes #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #SymbioteSpiderMan #JackStaff #Thor #MetalGods #SerialBox #AudioBooks

After gathering once more in their secret hideout above a cafe on a high street in a small town that may or may not be near you (it’s not), the cultural anarchists are shocked to discover that their arch-nemesis (temporarily, and they haven’t told him yet as they’re still deciding if he’s the right one for them. A nemesis is for life, not just for entertainment), Ed Miliband has decided to start his own podcast about books.   After that it’s time for something more fun and wholesome(?), and what could be more entertaining than some newly revealed correspondence from the archives of George Orwell. The wholesomeness arrives in the form of an antiquarian bookshop that becomes popular after a tweet, and an underrated book that gains much deserved praise and publicity.    Normal service does resume when we discuss a rather amazing gaff by the Romance Writers of America, and we end with a quiz about newspaper corrections. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #EdMiliband #ReasonsToBeCheerful #CheerfulBookClub #GeorgeOrwell #RomanceWritersOfAmerica #CourtneyMilan #Racism #Songwoman #IlkaTampke #JeanineCummins #AmericanDirt #Quiz #NewspaperCorrections

It's 2020, and there may be many, many, many useful and constructive ways to start the new decade ... Or you can join our resident cultural anarchists for a spot of chaotic fun. It's your choice but given that we've got a packed show that includes art bananas getting eaten, the rise of the "response novel", and our reviews of our Secret Santa presents from Christmas (the Usborne World Of The Unknown: Ghosts,  Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade, The Land Of The Green Man by Carolyne Larrington and What I Lick Before Your Face ... And Other Haikus By Dogs by Jamie Coleman). We also have a "quiz" about new age ... sayings ... that ends up in a head-on clash between Sarah and and internet phrase generator. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Usborne #WorldOfTheUnknown #Ghosts #AyoadeOnTop #RichardAyoade #TheLandOfTheGreenMan #CarolyneLarrington #WhatILickBeforeYourFace #HaikusByDogs #JamieColeman #ArtBanana #ResponseNovel #NewAgeBullshitGenerator

Not only is it the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also our last episode of 2019, and what better way to sign off for the year than our annual look at the Literary Review’s Bad Sex In Fiction Awards! As it traditional for us now, we hand over proceedings to our resident storyteller Andrew who reads out choice quotes from the books nominated for the award, while the rest of us fancy-prance into amusement, bemusement, shock, horror, and a general feeling of “what the f…?”. After that it’s time for our annual Secret Santa, where we give each other a book that we have chosen for them to read and cover on our first show back. And with that, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! We’ll see you all again in January of 2020. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #LiteraryReview #BadSexAwards #BadSexInFictionAwards #TheRiverCapture #MaryCostello #TheOfficeOfGardensAndPonds #DidierDecoin #CityOfGirls #ElizabethGilbert #Pax #JohnHarvey #TheElectricHotel #DominicSmith #SecretSanta #ChristmasSpecial 

Donald Trump Jr. has apparently been upholding the family’s traditional methods of inflating book sales figures, which we really should have expected so I’m not sure why anyone’s surprised anymore.  On the other hand, somebody hiding LGBTQ, gun control, “women’s fiction”, and anti-Trump books in a public library in Idaho is surprisingly devious. In other news, it’s Work In Publishing week so expect a lot of unpaid internships (I.e. volunteers), a case of unreturned children’s books spirals wildly out of control, John Bercow will publish a new candid memoir about his time as Speaker for the House Of Commons, Collins dictionary release their word of the year and much more. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Triggered #DonaldTrumpJr #Libraries #HidingBooks #Publishing #JohnBercow #Memoirs #CollinsDictionary #WordOfTheYear #ClimateStrike #TheSecretGarden #DucksNewburyport #GoldsmithsPrize #CharlotteBrontë

This week we’re kicking things off with one of our favourite books awards - the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year.   In other news, a new children’s book attempts to do what politicians can’t - explain Brexit, the Asterix comics get their first female protagonist, a new app will make books easier to read by compressing them and taking out all the difficult words, an Instagram account describes itself as an online library for old and out-of-print books, and a man has spent 20 years searching, gathering and compiling Shakespeare’s library.    After that, Sarah regales us with her thoughts on No One Is Too Small by Greta Thunberg, and we have a quiz about famous people who have food in their names. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #DiagramPrize #OddestBookTitle #TheDirtHoleAndItsVariations #VikingEncounters #ProceedingsOfThe18thVikingCongress #EndingTheWarOnArtisanCheese #NoahGetsNaked #BibleStoriesTheyDidntTeachYouAtSundaySchool #HitlersMonsters #ASupernaturalHistoryOfTheThirdReich #Asterix #Comics #Blinkit #BookReports #Instagram #SendB00ks #WilliamShakespeare #Library #NoOneIsTooSmallToMakeADifference #GretaThunberg #Quiz

The cultural anarchists are back for another not-so-serious look at the serious world of books and the arts, and kicking things off this week is the Nobel Prize for Literature - which was suspended for a year because of allegations of sexual harassment.    So this year should be better, right? RIGHT?   After that we discover that the Booker prize is also in the news for both right and wrong reasons, new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, a new children’s book featuring Lady Hale of the Supreme Court, and a whole lot more.  If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #NobelPrizeForLiterature #ManBookerPrize #KarlOveKnausgård #Netflix #Adaptations #Words #OxfordEnglishDictionary #OED #AugustenBurroughs #LadyHale #SupremeCourt #ChildrensBooks #SimonHarris #LittleBudgiesDoneAFudgie #TheRomanceOfTheRose #Poetry #Poems #Smut 

The ramshackle paddle-boat on the turbid rivers of culture returns for another meandering;y humorous look at the things that have been happening in the world of books and the arts, and kicking things of this week is Grr Martin’s statement that the Game of Thrones books (the ones that haven’t been published yet), will be longer than the TV series.    We’ll just leave that statement there for you all to ponder and move on …   In other news, Chad Allen has created an audio comic-book for blind people, Turkey have banned a kids book from being sold to anyone under the age of eighteen, Tony Thorne is compiling a glossary of “Brexitspeak”, Jessica Love wins the Klaus Flugge Prize for her picture-book illustration, a man has been jailed for stealing 7000 books from Scottish universities, and more.   It’s a veritable festival of cultural anarchy for your earholes. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #GameOfThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #Television #TV #ChadAllen #Unseen #AudioComic #Turkey #GoodnightStoriesForRebelGirls #FrancescaCavallo #ElenaFavilli #TonyThorne #Brexitspeak #Glossary #HartshornHookProductions #TheWolfOfWallStreet #Flooding #ImmersiveTheatre #TheBunker #Pubs #Theft #ScottishUniversities #JessicaLove #PictureBooks #Illustrations #KlausFluggePrize

We begin this episode with the news that someone has stolen Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace.    No, seriously. Somebody stole a golden toilet.   Among the other news, Angela Carter’s house finally gets a blue plaque to celebrate her life and work, a gynaecologist has been banned from Twitter for advertising her new book, a petition with 30,000 signatures wants words that discriminate and patronise against women to be removed from the Oxford English Dictionary, Facebook have applied to trademark the work “book” (after apparently successfully trademarking the word “face”), and America goes through another Banned Books week.    Our featured book is Spider-Man: Forever Young by Stefan Petrucha. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #SpiderMan #ForeverYoung #StefanPetrucha #TheStoneTabletSaga #GoldenToilet #MaurizioCattelan #AngelaCarter #Petition #Facebook #Trademarks #BannedBooks 

It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather odd transforming wooden statue of Donald Trump to go along with the bizarre, prehistoric-style statue of his wife Melania.    In other news, a sculpture called America by Maurizio Cattelan has been installed in Blenheim Palace for display/use, Wellington in New Zealand gets its own dose of strange sculpture in the form of a giant hand with a face on it, an attempt in Lincolnshire to join the trend of hiding books for kids to find goes wrong, the Harry Potter books get banned (again), for apparently allowing people to summon demons when read aloud, and we have a quiz about the working titles of famous books. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Statues #Sculpture #America #DonaldTrump #Slovenia #Quasi #RonnieVanHout #MaurizioCattelan #HarryPotter #SummoningDemons #Quiz #WorkingTitles #GoldenToilet #GiantHand

After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged items to poke fun at, and this week it’s a very mixed bag indeed.    So what’s on the cards? Well, there’s the rise of lesbian time-travelling books, Swiss critic Martin Ebel’s corvine-based fantasies, Desert Island Discs, Northern working class licenses, Paul Harrison’s controversial true crime claims, Loch Ness monster conventions, a painting of Donald Trump (complete with bald eagle, a flag that’s fraying at the edges, Planet Earth the same size as his head, and the Statue of Liberty), Barack Obama’s summer reading list, and a quiz about rejection letters received by famous authors. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #TimeTravel #MartinEbel #SallyRooney #LauraLaverne #DesertIslandDiscs #PaulHarrison #TrueCrime #LochNessMonster #DonaldTrump #Smithsonian #BarackObama #Quiz #RejectionLetters #FamousAuthors

We kick things off this week with an excerpt from the 1960s sci-fi novel Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, which has a “hero” with a remarkably familiar name …   Other discoveries this week include some very off books written by candidate for the nomination for the candidacy to become U.S. President Marianne Williamson, the rumour of the possibility of a children’s book that Meghan Markle may be thinking about writing, the fact that Donald Trump Jr. has written a book, the defence of the bizarre Cats trailer by the T. S. Eliot estate, and a village game that involves hiding books from children.   After all that business is over, Rob rather appropriately ends the show with Wastelands: The New Apocalypse - an anthology of post-apocalyptic shorts stories edited by John Joseph Adams. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #AgentOfChaos #BorisJohnson #NormanSpinrad #MarianneWilliamson #Politics #DonaldTrumpJr #Triggered #MeghanMarkle #ChildrensBooks #Cats #TSEliot #Wastelands #TheNewApocalypse #JohnJosephAdams

The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed bears of books and the arts. Kicking things off this episode are Stephen King’s claims that America’s President is scarier than anything he wrote, and that he kind of predicted the future in his book The Dead Zone.   After that all bets are off as we take a look at Brad Downey’s statue of Melania Trump, find out why Metallica are writing a children’s book, discover some dystopian German sci-fi based on modern Britain, channel the spirits of Hunter S. Thompson’s thanks to AirBnB and more. We end the show with Graham's thoughts about The Record Keeper by Agnes Gomillion. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #StephenKing #TheDeadZone #DonaldTrump #BradDowney #MelaniaTrump #Statue #Slovenia #Metallica #ChildrensBooks #DystopianSciFi #HunterSThompson #TheCabinInTheWoods #AirBnB #StaunchBookPrize #Controversy #Twitter #EpicFail #MargaretAtwood #TheHandmaidsTale #Crime #HerneBay #TheHerneBayRipper 

After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating to Game of Thrones, we kick things off with the lesser-known Tory leadership contest involving the books the contenders have written, after which we find out that people are angry at Jeremy Corbyn (again), for liking a book. In other news, a wing of a castle that meant nothing to Charlotte Brontë is up for sale, a Russian man has created a business making bespoke signatures, one of the naked statues of Antony Gormley in Scotland has been “vandalised” in a very creative way, the American Christian group Return To Order has sent a petition to Netflix to cancel the Amazon Prime series Good Omens, a new animated feature film based on the Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents has been announced, and Usborne have decided to re-issue their 1976 book The World of the Unknown: Ghosts. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #AmazonPrime #AnimatedFeatureFilm #Animation #AntonyGormley #Stautes #Art #CharlotteBrontë #ConservativeLeadershipContest #ConservativeParty #Discworld #Films #GoodOmens #JamesJoyce #JeremyCorbyn #LabourParty #Movies #Netflix #Politics #Signatures #TerryPratchett #TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents #TheWorldOfTheUnknown #Ghosts #Ulysses #UsbornePublishing #WTFAward

The goat herders of cultural anarchy return with another sack full of interesting and sometimes strange tidings from the arts world, and kicking things off this week is the shocking news that Grr Martin has allegedly finished a book - something that he strenuously denies.   In other news, the musician Moby has had to apologise for the claim in his autobiography that he dated Natalie Portman, Naomi Wolf misunderstood what the term “death recorded” meant, Jacob Rees Mogg has written a book about the Victorians (insert your own jokes here - we’re sure you have plenty), Richard Osman has received a seven-figure sum for a book that hasn’t been written yet, the copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover used in its trial has been auctioned, and more. We also have a book - Strange Ink by Gary Kemble.   If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares.   Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #StrangeInk #LadyChatterleysLover #Moby #NataliePortman #JacobReesMogg #GeorgeRRMartin #GameOfThrones #RichardOsman #Outrages #NaomiWolf

The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast that keeps threatening to make sense while at the same time keeps sliding down the slippery slope of art-house podcasting (you know, five minutes of silence, someone repeating the word peanut for ten seconds, a random Wilhelm scream, a comment about the state of the world told through the sounds of interpretive dance, etc). Kicking things off this week is our usual Game-Of-Thrones-watch before we take a look at the Republic of Consciousness Awards, the connection between James Joyce and US politics, a new addition to the American Library Association's list of most banned or challenged books, Catholic book-burning in Poland (see The Geek Show S16E06 - Schrödinger's Black Hole), political commentary versus Brett Easton Ellis, and some bizarre advice from the Harvard Business Review on how to read more books in a year.  If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow (http://www.twitter.com/TGS_thegeekshow) , or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://www.thegeekshow.co.uk) and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #BrettEastonEllis #JohnOliver #ADayInTheLifeOfMarlonBundo #BannedBooks #BookBurning #HelloKitty #HarvardBusinessReview #Reading #RepublicOfConsciousnessAward #GameOfThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #JamesJoyce #AmericanLibraryAssociation

Some time in the near yet seemingly distant past (which would be around the end of last year), the cultural anarchists gathered to offer each other secret gifts to honour the season of the Jolly Red Northern Obese Man (not to be confused with his relative and arch nemesis, the Harassed Yellow Southern Gaunt Man). Over the next few months we covered those gifts on several episodes of this show, but now it’s time for the final book to be revealed! But before we get into that there’s our usual look at what’s been happening in the cultured world, which this week include a new “comprehensive” collection of scandals, mis-steps and personality flaws of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump called Kushner Inc, how books are apparently and allegedly the “hot”, “new” fashion accessory, a good Narnia fanfiction that will never be published, using artificial intelligence to create art while maintaining a health fear of its prose, and getting paid to do literally nothing.   Our final Secret Santa book is Wiffle Lever to Full!: Daleks, Death Stars and Dreamy-Eyed Nostalgia at the Strangest Sci-Fi Conventionsby Bob Fischer  Also, we apologise for the audio quality in this episode. We had some technical issues during the recording. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Politics #JaredKushner #IvankaTrump #VickyWard #KushnerInc #Scandals #Fashion #Accessories #FrancisSpufford #Narnia #Fanfiction #OpenAI #Art #ArtificialIntelligence #Sweden #ArtProjects #WiffleLeverToFull #Daleks #DeathStar #DreamyEyedNostalgia #SciFi #Conventions

The Literary Loitering soap box car speeds its way through the mean streets of cultural anarchy, with Graham, Andrew and Rob riding along on this fun outing.  Kicking things off on this week’s tour of cultural anarchy is a CEO’s claim that she had memorised and could quote Jane Austen novels. After that we discover that parents are spending more on costumes for their children than books on World Book Day, science has allegedly proven that kids books like Mr. Greedy are just as advanced as The Grapes of Wrath, QAnon’s book of conspiracies is performing well on Amazon’s non-fiction charts in the US, and Mountain View libarary in California has decided to employ a robot.  Then it’s time for Graham to talk about his Secret Santa book, Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James A. Yannes. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Theranos #ElizabethHolmes #JaneAusten #Memorisation #WorldBoojDay #Costumes #MrGreedy #JohnSteinbeck #TheGrapesOfWrath #QAnon #AnInvitationToTheGreatAwakening #Amazon #Charts #MountainViewLibrary #Robots #BookBot

It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes! Now that we’re officially fogeys of the podcasting world we cast a weathered gaze over the recent happenings, and offer our usual derisive, sorry, decisive commentary on things like French festival that have been criticised for using “forbidden” English words, exhibitions of erotic literature that include works by Roger Pheuquewell (this is not a joke), prisoners in Nottingham are getting high on Harry Potter, and more.  After that we look at some of the words that were first noted down a century ago before we dive into the murky world of books that people people claim to have read (in an effort to look smart), but actually haven’t.  If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #ScèneYoungAdult #Language #French #English #BritishLibrary #PrivateCaseCollection #EroticFiction #RogerPheuquewell #HarryPotter #Prison #Drugs

Don your leather jackets, wheel out your tricycles, and join Graham, Sarah and Rob for another anarchic slow-ride through arts, books and culture. Kicking things off this week, yet another former member of Donald Trump’s staff has released a tell-all book - which is more proof that if you want a book deal in the U.S., you should get a job in the White House. In other news, we find out the truth about J. D. Salinger’s unpublished works, E. L. James announces a “sexy” new book, and we marvel at the rise of a new sub-genre of detective fiction called cozy mysteries - which may sometimes feature cats as the heroes.  After that it’s Sarah’s turn to talk about her Christmas book, which is Cunk On Everything: The Encyclepedia Philomena by Philomena Cunk and Jason Hazeley. Then it’s time for a quiz about old dialect words and phrases from around the UK … what could go wrong? If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #WhiteHouse #Politics #CliffSims #TeamOfVipers #My500ExtraordinaryDaysInTheTrumpWhiteHouse #JDSalinger #ELJames #CozyMysteries #CunkOnEverything #TheEncyclopediaPhilomena #PhilomenaCunk #Dialects #Memoirs #Quiz

Literary Loitering returns for another year of cultural anarchy, and with all the gang present and correct there should be nothing to stop us! Except for technology (apologies for the poor audio quality in parts of this episode).  Anyway, the show must go on as they say, and this week we discover that the sale of physical books has increased and second-hand bookshops are becoming more popular. In other news, some fascist books were left in an old red phone booth that had been converted into a library (that’s some weird Doctor Who stuff right there), the argument between twitchers and birders continues unabated, and Stephen King saves a newspaper review section.  After that it’s time to talk about the Secret Santa we did last year, and first up to bat is Rob with Charles Foster’s gloriously eccentric treatise on nature and animals, Being A Beast.  Oh, and as further reading after that book, then we recommend the following:  After Man: A Zoology Of The Future by Dougal Dixon (which we reviewed on episode 85) Straight From The Horse’s Mouth: How To Talk To Animals And Get Answers by Amelia Kinkade Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease Animal: The Autobiography Of A Female Body by Sara Pascoe If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #AfterMan #AZoologyOfTheFuture #DougalDixon #StraightFromTheHorsesMouth #HowToTalkToAnimalsAndGetAnswers #AmeliaKinkade #MenAreFromMarsWomenAreFromVenus #JohnGray #WhyMenDontListenAndWomenCantReadMaps #AllanPease #BarbaraPease #AnimalTheAutobiographyOfAFemaleBody #SaraPascoe #BeingABeast #CharlesFoster 

It’s the most wonderful time of the year which can only mean one thing - the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award! Join Graham, Andrew, Sarah and Rob for this final episode of 2018 which is top-filled with enough filth and innuendo to carry our jolly listeners well into the new year.  After that it’s time to unwrap our presents as we do our own book-based version of a Secret Santa.  Hold on to your strange seasonal jumpers because things are going to get weird (and possibly sticky). If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #LiteraryReview #BadSexInFictionAward #BadSexAward #HarukiMurakami #KillingCommendatore #JamesFrey #Katerina #Connect #JulianGough #Kismet #LukeTredget #GracesDay #WilliamWall #ThePaperLovers #GerardWoodward #Scoundrels #TheHuntForHansclapp #MajorVictorCornwall #MajorArthurStJohnTrevelyan #WiffleLeverToFull #DaleksDeathStarsAndDreamyEyedNostalgiaAtTheStrangestSciFiConventions #BobFischer #CollectibleSpoonsOfThe3rdReich #JamesAYannes #BeingABeast #CharlesFoster #CunkOnEverything #PhilomenaCunk #TheEncyclopediaPhilomena 

The end of the year draws near, and with one episode left before a well deserved break it’s time for those anarchic and rambunctious rapscallions of culture to once again do what they do best, and what better way to kick off the penultimate episode of 2018 than with the “Word” of the Year. Is it still fair to call it that given some of the previous entries? Isn’t it now an oxymoron to call it a “word”? Should we change it to “Thing From the Human Vocabulary” … of the year? Anyway, after that it’s time to find out what kind of filth has been kept in the Bodleian Library’s secretive Phi collection, why Barrow Island Primary School’s library has technically not checked out any books, where the citizenship of author Milan Kundera went, and what Jonathan Franzen thinks makes a good writer. The next episode is our last one of 2018, and it’s a doozy so make sure you tune in for the Bad Sex Awards! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #OxfordDictionary #WordOfTheYear #BigDickEnergy #Toxic #MilanKundera #JonathanFranzen #BodleianLibrary #PhiCollection #BarrowIsland #Libraries #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Comedy #WritingTips

Under normal circumstances (or what passes as normal around here), we’d take our rickety wagon of cultural anarchy and meander along until we found some oddity or weirdness that we could talk about, but at certain points in the time someone else kindly does the job for us. That’s right. It’s time for one of our favourite annual awards - The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year! But before we get into that there are a few items of note, like Isabella Rossellini’s bizarre “one woman” show that had her sporting novelty gorilla arms (which, contrary to the review we found, we thought sounded amazing), the winner of the Man Booker Prize, and the fact that copies of Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk by Mark Judge (who is a college friend of controversial supreme court judge Brett Kavanaugh), are suddenly very hard to get a hold of … We end the show with our thoughts on Halcyon by Rio Youers. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Halcyon #RioYouers #ManBookerPrize #Wasted #TalesOfAGenXDrunk #Bookseller #DiagramPrize #IsabellaRossellini

Apparently there’s a new way to become a published author - get a job in Trump’s White House and get fired from it. Our resident cultural anarchists return to offer up a heap of interesting tidings from all sorts of places, beginning with Anthony Scaramucci who lasted in his role of in the White House and has now published a book about it. After a brief interlude to admire a statue of Matilda facing down a cartoonish Donald Trump outside Roald Dahl’s house it’s time to find out why Mr. Darcy is guilty of “negging”.   In other news, a new study shows which countries are the biggest bookworms, a self-published author goes to jail for killing her husband after she wrote a blog about … killing her husband, Pat Barker says we need more passionate readers, a new font claims to assist memory and more.   Welcome to another fun-filled episode of Literary Loitering! If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Politics #AnthonyScaramucci #PatBarker #Reading #RoaldDahl #Matilda #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #NegativeCompliments #Research #Crime #Murder #SansForgetica #Fonts #Philip Larkin

This week Graham and Andrew discover that they may not be the bastions of sanity and elegance that they thought they were as Producer Rob is away, so they now have free reign to take the show in a more studied and genteel direction. Unfortunately their inner cultural anarchists disagreed with their decision. Alongside all of those shenanigans our intrepid duo are confused about the unusual U.S. renaming of Stuart Turton’s novel The Seven Deaths of Elizabeth Hardcastle, discover the ultimate in Frenchness, investigate some of Shakespeare’s possible inspirations, wonder why anyone would want to do a historical re-enactment of the funeral of Princess Diana, and all sorts of other stuff. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #StuartTurton #TheSevenDeathsOfElizabethHardcastle #PrixRenaudot #RenaudotPrize #France #Shakespeare #PrincessDiana #TimFarron #LiberalDemocrats #GeneralElection #ReflectionsOnAHashtag

The junk wagon of cultural anarchy rolls into town again with Andrew, Graham and Producer Rob riding in the back … hang on … WHO’S DRIVING?  And since we’re travelling at the speed of a decrepit milk float, do we really need a driver?  Anyway, things have been happening in the world. The Future Library burying books in a forest near Oslo, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been cancelled but already has a replacement award, the author of Crazy Rich Asians could see in the new year in jail, fictional medieval woodland character Reynard the Fox is due to make a comeback and more besides.   After all of that it’s time to settle down with a good book, and this time it’s The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #TheCabinAtTheEndOfTheWorld #TitanBooks #PaulTremblay #FutureLibrary #NobelPrize #Literature #CrazyRichAsians #ReynardTheFox #Medieval #GuantanamoBay #Maldives #Library #QuirkBooks #Adaptations #Movies #Films

Has anyone else noticed that stories about the Trump presidency are beginning to sound more like stories from Game of Thrones that didn’t make the cut?  Adding to the whirlwinds of controversy surrounding The Don of the U.S. government is Unhinged - a new tell-all book by former Trump aide (which, now that we say it, sounds like some kind of gastric medicine), Omarosa Newman. As part of her publicity drive she has also released several recordings that she made during her time as part of the White House “family”.  In other news, and instagram star’s foraging cookbook has been pulled because of its potentially poisonous recipes, Jerry Adams divulges recipe secrets from Northern Ireland’s peace process, support pours in for a socialist bookshop that was attacked by right-wing vandals, Helen Lederer announces an alternative to the Wodehouse Prize that will focus on female authors, and Women’s Weekly comes under-fire from authors, writers and many others for its shockingly terrible contracts.  After all of that we actually have two books - Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned by Kieron Tyler, and The Winter Vow by Tim Akers - which is the conclusion to his Hallowed War trilogy.  Now normally we’d be done there, but not this week as Graham has put together a rather fun quiz … #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #OmarosaManigaultNewman #Donald Trump #Art #Music #Punk #TheDamned #CaptainSensible #KieronTyler #SmashingItUp #ADecadeOfChaosWithTheDamned #TheHallowedWar #TimAkers #TheWinterVow #Fantasy 

There are three Brontë sisters, and since we’re missing a Graham this week we decided to find out which of our three intrepid cultural anarchists (Sarah, Andrew and Producer Rob), could be the reincarnation of which Brontë sister. We find out the truth at the end of the show, we just hope that Graham isn’t Bramwell … Also, don’t ask which of the Brontë’s was the best as you may start a rumble in certain circles.  Before all of that though, things have been happening in the strange world of books and the arts, beginning with the usual dire statistics about young-adult fiction (it’s always something with teenagers …). After that it’s time to find out why bookshops and libraries are not the same thing, why a group of protest artists were protesting against their own exhibition, and why anyone in their right mind would pay $30,000 for a book about Ferrari.  After a quick stop in Lincoln to find out what the art ninjas have been up to, it’s time for Producer Rob to explore the remarkably observant cartoons of Private Eye’s very own David Ziggy Greene in a new collection of his work called Times Like These: Graphic Reports of Modern Life.   It’s a book that isn’t a book but is a book in the form of a graphic novel … technically?  If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #TimesLikeThese #GraphicReportsOfModernLife #PrivateEye #DavidZiggyGreene #SceneAndHeard #CharlotteBrontë #EmilyBrontë #AnnBrontë #TheBrontëSisters #Ferarri #Taschen #Amazon #Art #CommunityArt #Protests 

The calamitous cultural anarchists have wandered haphazardly into town again, and this time they’ve brought a friend on their never-ending quest for snacks and a comfy place to take a nap. Kicking things off this week is our usual Game of Thrones-watch, which this time doesn’t involve Grr Martin but does involve the possibility that maps of Westeros could be used to assist in a real-world prison break.  We’re a bit confused by that as well.  After that there’s something spicy with details of Sean Spicer’s sizzling tell-all book, then it’s crime-fighting with Barack and Biden, MI6’s plans to recruit teenaged secret agents, and poisoning by books.  Rounding things off is our featured book, which this week is The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey (New Pompeii, Empire of Time). If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #DanielGodfrey #TheSynapseSequence #NewPompeii #EmpireOfTime #TitanBooks #SciFi #ScienceFiction #GameofThrones #BarackObama #JoeBiden #CrimeFighting #SeanSpicer #TheBriefing #Politics #ThePress #ThePresident #DonaldTrump #MI6

Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns. After that public service announcement it’s time for our resident cultural anarchists to venture into the murky dystopia of literature and the arts where they discover racism from the creator of Little House on the Prairie, authors retiring then making comebacks, essays about … essays (and Trump), the rise of Cockybot (pun very much intended), Elon Musk’s ideal utopia, how to defy ISIS with empty cans of date syrup, and a lot of regional words and phrases - some of which are from other countries! If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #ElonMusk #IainMBanks #Culture #JonathanFranzen #LauraIngallsWilder #LittleHouseOnThePrairie #Cockybot #OED #OxfordEnglishDictionary #DateSyrup #Sculpture #RegionalPhrases #Cockygate

Cultural anarchy reigns once more, and to kick things off this week we’ve got another Game-Of-Thrones-watch! So what has Grr Martin been up to this time? We find out before we return to the ongoing “Cocky” copyright saga, followed by a brief stop to find out why the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature is taking a break this year (the reason is amazing!). After that it’s time for another one of our notorious quizzes where there are no winners … and this time it’s about regional sayings that are hard to translate into English. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop) and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Comedy #GameOfThrones #TheWindsOfWinter #GeorgeRRMartin #Quiz #Sayings #Adages #TheBollingerEverymandWodehousePrize #ComicFiction #Fiction #ComicLiterature #Literature #Cockygate #FaleenaHopkins

We’re a man down this week, but since it’s the most sensible of our three amigos it’s up to Andrew and Producer Rob to offer a half-hearted Amigo Salute before settling down to the serious business of cultural anarchy.  So what do we have in store this time? Well, John le Carré has been pouring all kinds of scorn on British politics while parents are changing children’s stories if they’re deemed “too scary” … whatever that means. In other news, Grr Martin is apparently doing a lot of stuff, but none of it relates to writing The Winds of Winter, a Tasmanian convict’s daring escape in 1829 is getting retold as a kid’s book about birds, romance novelists are involved in a copyright dispute over the word “cocky”, and the police in Turkmenistan are investigating private and public toilets for evidence that the president’s “portrait” is being used as toilet paper (we did not make that up!). After all of that it’s time for Andrew to explore the romantic side of things in a collection called The Secret Loves of Geeks (edited by Hope Nicholson). If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #JohnLeCarré #WilliamSwallow #Tasmania #Prison #Escape #TheSecretLovesOfGeeks #HopeNicholson #MargaretAtwood #AmyChu #DanaSimpson #GerardWay #DarkHorse

An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we find out that domestic dramas are apparently crowding out traditional fantasy fiction in children’s books. It’s then time for a long-haul art vandal in the family, fake terrorist movie promotions, and the rising threat of political correctness to the great British double entendre. After that it’s time for a journey of discovery as Andrew takes Graham and Producer Rob 50 million years forward in time with After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon.  Rounding things off is the flamboyant cavalcade of sequins, political shenanigans, lucky cats, cultural appropriation, frills, bad ideas, awful pop music and derisive commentary that can only be the Eurovision Song Contest. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #Eurovision #EurovisionSongContest #Vandalism #Fantasy #DomesticDrama #DoubleEntendre #AfterMan #AZoologyOfTheFuture #DougalDixon #Music #Singing 

We’re a man down this week, but the solemn duty of being a cultural anarchist cannot be stopped by a mere superhero movie, no matter how justified the antagonist is.  Two Thanoses (is that the correct plural, or is it like octopus so it would be Thani?), do not make a right.  Kicking things off is the unsurprising (seriously, if you’re still shocked by this where have you been?), news that Grr Martin will not release the Winds of Winter in 2018, but will release another, Westeros-related book - which is actually something we kind-of sort-of already knew …  In other news there’s a lot of legal argy-bargy with To Kill A Mockingbird’s stage adaptation, a judgement on Richard III, Amazon reviews of James Comey’s scandalous tell-all book, and a couple of studies that tell us things we already knew.  After all of that it’s time to kick back and relax with pictures of toy robots and doughnuts (other deserts are there as well), in our featured book Robotic Existentialism: The Art of Eric Joyner. If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow and give whatever you can. Alternatively, we have a shop up and running so head over http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #JamesComey #AHigherLoyalty #Amazon #RoboticExistentialism #EricJoyner #Art #Robots #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Doughnuts #Donuts #GeorgeRRMartin #TheWindsOfWinter #ASongOfIceAndFire #GameOfThrones #ToKillAMockingbird #Stage #Research #Reading #RichardIII 

This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, after which we find that an unnamed male author has claimed that he’s living proof that men can write believable female characters (we’re confused as well, but that claim has led to a rather hilarious Twitter challenge). In other news, Neil Gaiman is going to produce a new TV adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, and Choose Your Own Adventure books make something of a comeback. After that we let Producer Rob loose so he can … erm … get some things about Ready Player One off his chest before Andrew regales us with a dramatic reading of an Ernest Cline poem. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #SeanPenn #BobHoneyWhoJustDoStuff #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #NeilGaiman #ReadyPlayerOne #Movies #Films #Nostalgia #80s #StevenSpielberg #ErnestCline #NerdPornAuteur #Surreal #Comedy

We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been happy with the new Peter Rabbit movie. Then, after a brief interlude on Broadway for a “controversial” new production of To Kill a Mockingbird it’s off to Paris, France for some naked art tourism. Our featured books are The Universe and Me by Toria Garbutt followed by a bit of Sparring with Gil Kane: Debating the History and Aesthetics of Comics by Gil Kane and Gary Groth, after which Andrew got bored and moved on to post-apocalypses and zombies in Salvation City Chronicles by Leon Brown. If you've enjoyed the show then please consider supporting us so that we can create more like it. You can find more details about The Geek Show Podcast Network on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #TheUniverseAndMe #ToriaGarbutt #SparringWithGilKane #DebatingTheHistoryAndAestheticsOfComics #GilKane #GaryGroth #SalvationCityChronicles #LeonBrown #Poetry #Poems #BeatrixPotter #PeterRabbit #Films #Movies #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #Broadway #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #TheModernPrometheus #Art #Naturists

Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are getting their own TV series (which makes us very, very happy). After that we discover that someone else has discovered a lock of what is possibly George Washington’s hair in an old almanac, get some reasons to be optimistic from Talking Heads front man David Byrne, applaud Dolly Parton’s generous book donations, wonder why Terry Goodkind doesn’t like his cover art, and find out that ebooks are apparently stupid (according to a publisher of “real” books). Our featured book is Spare And Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin. Please support The Geek Show Podcast Network on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #Discworld #AnkhMorpork #CityWatch #SamVimes #TerryPratchett #GeorgeWashington #TerryGoodkind #DavidByrne #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #SpareAndFoundParts #SarahMariaGriffin

After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns with all of the panache of a drunken screening of a Carry On movie.  Kicking off the news for 2018 is Grr Martin's hint that the long-awaited Winds of Winter won't be out this year (much to the surprise of nobody). After that it's a rip-roaring ride of discovery with children's books about fantastically great women, gender bias in kid's fiction, George A. Romero's unfinished zombie tales, Sean Hannity's fevered cheese dream about Obama's portrait, and Shakespeare plagiarism (not the way you thought though). Our featured book journeys back to Koji Suzuki's world of Ringu and Spiral with his latest novel S.  Please support The Geek Show Podcast Network on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #Culture #S #KojiSuzuki #TheRing #Ringu #Spiral #Horror #Supernatural #AGameOfThrones #TheWindsOfWinter #ASongOfIceAndFire #BarackObama #Portrait #Shakespeare #GeorgeNorth

It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, a 12 year-old photographer causes giraffe-based flashbacks for Andrew, selfies get their own museum and Texas prisons have some rather strange policies on books … Speaking of which, our featured books are The Dark North by Martin Dunellind (with artwork by Peter Bergting, Henrik Petterson, Jaokim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson and Lukas Thelin), and The Legion Prophecy (Book 3 of the Apollonian Case Files), by Mark A. Latham. Oh, and we’re ending the year with a quiz about gestures around the world. How’s that for avant-garde podcasting? #TheDarkNorth #Horror #Scandinavia #Mythology #NorseMythology #DarkHorse #TheLegionProphecy #TheApollonianCaseFiles #MarkALatham #Quiz #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #Culture #Art