Podcasts about DBC Pierre

What exactly is “a Booker book”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream titles. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's debut, Vernon God Little, was awarded the prize. In this episode, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner. In this episode, Jo and James talk about: Their childhood reading inspirations A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of Vernon God Little The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win The author behind the novel, DBC Pierre Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years after its release Books to read after reading Vernon God Little Books and authors discussed in this episode: Matilda by Roald Dahl Rudyard Kipling Charles Dickens Vladimir Nabokov Virginia Woolf The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The ‘His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman The Moomins books by Tove Jansson Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller Brick Lane by Monica Ali Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan Life of Pi by Yann Martel Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Us by David Nicholls The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Philip Larkin A full transcript of the episode is available at our website. If you've got a problem you'd like some literary help with, email us at contactus@bookerprizefoundation.org using the subject line “The Booker Clinic”. Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DBC Pierre http://www.dbcpierre.com Buy Big Snake Little Snake here : https://www.cheeriopublishing.com Gateway books Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall On The Road - Kerouac Gore Vidal - Duluth Current reads/recently enjoyed/looking forward to Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Transylvania Trilogy - Miklós Bánffy Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat Desert Island Books Papillon - Henri Charrière Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay Lila- Robert. M. Pirsig The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova - Translated by Arthur Machen

Listeners, prepare for a winding tale: a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre in his new book Big Snake Little Snake. Written while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, the book examines the nature of gambling and aims to shed light on the invisible odds and outrageous chances of everyday life on Earth. This satisfyingly existential book is published by independent press, Cheerio, and available now in all good bookshops.  ‘Pierre's writing is heady, reaching glorious heights of linguistic invention' Independent We recommend buying from your local indie or you can get it from our shop at Bookshop.org . Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman Programmed by Matt Casbourne Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DBC Pierre's Big Snake Little Snake is a characteristically freewheeling, riotous account of a couple of years the author lived in the Caribbean, spending his time, among other endeavours, conducting an inquiry into risk. It's also an extraordinarily fun book, yet with a deep seriousness at its core. Seeking to understand, as it does, how the world can be presented to us as fundamentally indifferent, while also being so clearly, and so often, unfair.Buy Big Snake, Little Snake here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781788169776/big-snake-little-snake-an-inquiry-into-risk*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*One of the nation's most uncompromising literary voices, DBC Pierre is author of the novels VERNON GOD LITTLE, LUDMILA'S BROKEN ENGLISH and LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND, plus the picture book for distracted adults PETIT MAL and the Hammer novella BREAKFAST WITH THE BORGIAS. The novel VERNON GOD LITTLE sold in 43 territories and won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award from University College Dublin. His ground-breaking new novel MEANWHILE IN DOPAMINE CITY was published by Faber & Faber in August2020 and is short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Shak Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Georgina Godwin speaks to Clare Conville, founder of literary agency Conville and Walsh. She also meets DBC Pierre, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Vernon God Little'. His latest work is ‘Big Snake Little Snake', an exploration of risk and gambling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Georgina Godwin speaks to Clare Conville, founder of literary agency Conville and Walsh. She also meets DBC Pierre, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Vernon God Little'. His latest work is ‘Big Snake Little Snake', an exploration of risk and gambling.

The Booker Prize winning author talks to Nihal about magic, backgammon, Shane Warne and his new book Big Snake, Little Snake.

The Outstanding Achievement in Opera award goes to Bajazet. Our Place in Space, a three-dimensional sculpture of our solar system. DBC Pierre, with his new work Big Snake, Little Snake, a cascade of true stories. Giacometti: From Life, a exhibition of more than 50 pieces at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Pages 376 - 387 │ Cyclops, part I │ Read by DBC PierreBooker Prize-winning novelist dreaming of future works and a patch of warm flooring at Shakespeare & Co.www.dbcpierre.comBuy Meanwhile in Dopamine City here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571228959/meanwhile-in-dopamine-city-shortlisted-for-the-goldsmiths-prize-2020*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Verb, Ian McMillan's weekly foray into writing and language examines the appeal of risk and chance. Risk is inherent to writing every time you put words on paper; whether it's risk in the use of form, or language, or subject matter. It's the risk a writer takes when they expose their own lives or the lives of others in their writing. Booker prize winning author DBC Pierre talks about his latest book 'Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Gambling and Life'; Hannah Silva on the unpredictability of collaborating with an A-I algorithm for her latest play; poet and novelist Helen Mort, who's always been drawn to the thrill and risk of rock climbing, examines how the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks in her new book 'A Line Above the Sky' and poet Will Harris examines the role of the chance encounter in literature. Producer: Cecile Wright

In this episode we speak with DBC Pierre, author of Vernon God Little (for which he won the Booker Prize in 2003), Ludmila's Broken English (2006), Lights Out in Wonderland (2010), Breakfast with the Borgias (2014) and most recently, Meanwhile in Dopamine City which was published in 2020.Pierre joined us fresh off a bout of working on a non-fiction work and we discussed how this writing differed from fiction, how constantly reworking sections is a gift that provides intimacy with the text rather than drudgery, the perils of using two columns per page in a novel, using lockdown as a chrysalis for the next chapter and much more besides.Meanwhile in Dopamine City is published by Faber - you can find out more here.You can find more about DBC Pierre, including his writing and some of the finest book-related merch we've seen in a long while, at his website: http://www.dbcpierre.com/Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloomJaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchanWe have a store page on Bookshop, where you can find our books, as well as those of previous guests: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/unsoundmethodsThanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/We are teaming up with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. With the current uncertainty in the world, why not check out their Literature in Lockdown page? : https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ies-virtual-community/literature-lockdown

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

What's The Chakkar? The Chakkar presents our very first podcast, a sampler of our tastes. This month, in conversation with Ady Manral, Shaista Vaishnav, and Jamie Alter, we will discuss the evolution of Hip-Hop in India, listen to a new song by Divine, discuss the SONYLIV show Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, and dive into books by Samit Basu and DBC Pierre about varying tech-dystopias. Hosted by Karan Madhok.

Jamie Catto is an author, film-maker and musician running transformational workshops and events to reclaim all the treasure we edited away into the shadows and facilitate everyone daring to be more real, more fallible, more tender, more intimate. Jamie Catto is a former and founding member of Faithless. He was the ballad singer/songwriter, and became Art Director and Video Director of the band before leaving in 1999 to form the double-Grammy nominated, global music and film project 1 Giant Leap. His last album with Faithless was Sunday 8PM. He is also known as a photographer, script editor and creative catalyst. When Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman formed 1 Giant Leap, they toured to such nations as Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, India, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, America and Europe, equipped solely with a digital video camera, a laptop and a vision to explore ‘The Unity in the Diversity'. They released the first ‘1 Giant Leap' in 2002. (It was nominated for 2 Grammys in 2003, sold over 300 thousand albums, and won numerous awards globally). They collaborated with such artists as Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Stipe, Bono, Susan Sarandon, k.d. Lang, Tom Robbins, Dido, Brian Eno, Tim Robbins, Daniel Lanois, Yoko Ono, J. P. Donleavy, Naomi Klein, Oumou Sangare, Billy Connolly, Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore, DBC Pierre, Neneh Cherry, Robbie Williams, Lila Downs, Bob Geldof, Neale Donald Walsch, Stephen Fry, Gita Mehta, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Speech, Mahotella Queens, Michael Franti etc. In 2004, Simon Fuller and 19 Entertainment backed the production of the 2nd 1 Giant Leap Film, TV Series and CD, “What About Me?”1 Giant Leap finished their second film / album ‘What About Me?' released on region 2 DVD June 2008 in the UK and won Grand Jury Best Documentary at Red Rock Film Festival at first screening in America at the end of 2008, has received numerous recognitions and additional screenings including a special screening at the DocMiami International Film Festival in 2010. (The making of What About Me? TV series screens on Channel 4 this November 2010.) They travelled across 50 countries and 5 continents recording music and interviews What About Me? website It features Tim Robbins, Daniel Lanois, KD Lang, Susan Sarandon, Zap Mama, Bob Geldof, Noam Chomsky, Billy Connolly, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walcsh, Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher, Bhagavan Das, Ram Dass, Oumou Sangare, Rokia Traore, Stephen Fry, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Franti, Michael Stipe, DBC Pierre, Will Young Ram Dass Daniel Lanois, Maxi Jazz, Oumou Sangare, Mahotella Queens, Stewart Copeland, Lila Downs Ramata Diakite, and others. Deep breathe, Jamie is insanely gifted and our chat he shares his wisdom and we delve more into the workshops he is offering in 2020 and how he lets life happen to him and moves with the beat rather than move against the beat. He finds the space between the notes, and it definatly shines through in our chat, just what an amazing human being Jamie is. I was super nervous in our catch up, which I feel confident in my other talks, I have mastered moving through my nerves, but you can see why in our talk, Jamie is a big soul with a lot to share and I am committed to bringing my listeners the best parts of my guests, I believe we were able to reveal a lot of gems in our chat, and I hope to get to have him on again as their is so much more to share.. You can catch the full episode on OneSpaceLove You Tube Channel visit www.onespace.love

Man Booker winning author DBC Pierre and Booker Prize long listed author Sophie Mackintosh join Joe Haddow to talk about writing nocturnally, big tech, social media, maternal instincts, talking about death and how our hoovers might be feeding data to companies we don't know about. In the Book Off, Henri Charriere's "Papillon" is put up against "All My Puny Sorrows" by Mirian Toewes, but which book will win? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘To me the Gala is the most joyous and emotional day it’s possible to have. I was taken to my first Gala when I was eight years old and I marched behind the band and the banner of Fishburn Colliery with my mother and Great-Uncle Wilf and Aunt Lizzie. It was always a wonderful day out, with three great emotional moments in it. First, there was the pride you felt at marching behind the lodge banner towards the racecourse, then there was the moment when we stopped outside the County Hotel and the band played their serenade to the big shots on the balcony, and finally there was the parade to the cathedral for the miners’ service.’ This description of the Miners’ Gala, which always takes place on the 2nd Saturday in July, is by Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre, whose mother is from Durham. He lived in Durham as a child in the 1960s. A Literary Pilgrimage of Durham is written by Ruth Robson and was commissioned as part of Durham Book Festival 2020

In this specially recorded podcast, which forms part of Durham Book Festival's Writing Durham series, DBC Pierre will talk about a specially commissioned piece The Long Cascade, which is inspired by his family’s strong connection to Durham, as well as his latest novel Meanwhile in Dopamine City. DBC Pierre is in conversation with Lee Brackstone, White Rabbit Books.

DBC Pierre, the man-booker debut winning novelist, joins Seán to discuss his fourth novel, Meanwhile in Dopamine City, Patrick Scullion chats about his alter-ego Rosa Tralee's upcoming shows at Dublin Fringe Festival & Jim Sheridan, Brenda Fricker & Billie Keane revisit The Field at 30.

Georgina Godwin talks to DBC Pierre, who won the Booker prize with his debut novel ‘Vernon God Little’. He has gone on to write five more books, including his latest: dystopian satire ‘Meanwhile in Dopamine City’. It is a darkly funny, brilliantly clever and utterly terrifying vision of technology in our near future

Nikki Bedi and JP Devlin are joined by Lesley Manville, Linda Grant, DBC Pierre and Tahmima Anam for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tawiah and Nilüfer Yanya.

DBC Pierre Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honored. After winning the Whitbread First Novel Award the same year, he became the first writer to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book.The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

•Drama• High-School-Amoklauf in texanischer Provinz – Der 15-jährige Vernon Little hat ein Riesenproblem: Sein Kumpel Jesus hat ein Massaker in der Highschool angerichtet und sich anschließend selbst erschossen. // Von DBC Pierre / WDR 2004 / www.hoerspiel.wdr.de

•Drama• High-School-Amoklauf in texanischer Provinz – Der 15-jährige Vernon Little hat ein Riesenproblem: Sein Kumpel Jesus hat ein Massaker in der Highschool angerichtet und sich anschließend selbst erschossen. // Von DBC Pierre / WDR 2004 / www.hoerspiel.wdr.de

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

In the second of our Man Booker 50 Festival podcast episodes, host Joe Haddow takes us backstage at the Southbank Centre during the weekend of 6-8 July. In this star studded episode we hear from prize winning and shortlisted authors including Hilary Mantel, Eleanor Catton, Marlon James, Alan Hollinghurst, Ben Okri, DBC Pierre, Andrew O' Hagan, Colm Tóibín and Graeme Macrae Burnet. Joe also catches up with screenwriter Christopher Hampton, who has turned several Man Booker novels into films and TV series, such as Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner, On Chesil Beach and Atonement. The episode culminates with a specially commissioned Man Booker 50 song written and performed by author and comedian Adam Kay.

In which the Idiots gab about DBC Pierre's Booker and Whitbread winning novel "Vernon God Little" - talk about why hamsters should have guns - why you should have guns on your teeth - how to survive the gas chamber - why you should respect Russia. Featuring Special Guest Experts Alabaman gun enthusiast Werner Climes and fellow American Ursuala You'reIn (Simone Belshaw). Hey! Come on to our live show on the 29th March! https://www.waterstones.com/events/faking-lit-podcast-presents-the-da-vinci-code/london-tottenham-court-road Outro Music: One of Us - Joan Osborne

Booker Prize winning novelist DBC Pierre tells us how growing up in Mexico influenced his writing. We also speak to the historian Andrew Paxman about his new biography of William Jenkins, an American entrepreneur who became the richest man in Mexico. His book "Jenkins of Mexico" is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Jenkins-Mexico-Southern-Mexican-Magnate/dp/0190455748/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499629821&sr=8-1&keywords=jenkins+of+mexico

The fourth and final part of DBC Pierre's conversation with This Writing Life podcast begins with a discussion of fraud. Pierre writes about this at the start of his excellent writing guide, Release the Bats, and hit headlines following his Man Booker victory for seemingly defrauding a former friend out of his house. ----more----After some Jeffrey Archer preamble, Pierre responds ('I think I can be concise'): 'There are in the liar and the bullshitter a great many qualities which are useful to fiction writing...It is incredibly useful to have been a bullshitter, but at a certain point you need to have made the distinction between what is and isn't.' 'I wasn't a happy fraud...You need to remain ignorant for that to work...' 'People bullshit because their worlds aren't good enough...' 'Life's too complicated to be disappointing' living up to Vernon God Little: Pierre on his life of writing parties, agents and writing with people looking over your shoulder the future (and beer at the Faber Social) Release the Bats is published by Faber & Faber and can be bought: here.

'I don't believe in inspiration.' So says DBC Pierre at the start of his third This Writing Life podcast, brought to you after two small party political broadcasts. Following a little drug chatter, I ask how Pierre disorients his senses these days? ----more---- From here we meander to:  how Pierre gets down to writing how Pierre started writing, circa Vernon God Little 'I had a mindset that writing was for masters...and would be way above me' Pierre's handwriting challenge how did Pierre get over his literary anxiety? 'I wrote in anger one day...' who was on Pierre's jury of imaginary readers? Pierre as one of life's observers  Part four of four to follow.

In his second This Writing Life podcast, DBC Pierre talks learning to write by remembering what he has read. For dialogue, he looked to Len Deighton. ----more---- After a discussion of how written speech differs from spoken speech, he moved towards: tell vs show: writing dialogue in Vernon God Little is Pierre an instinctive writer? 'I am going to speak differently to you than I will to the Queen or a child or an enemy' how flamenco on late night Spanish television helped Pierre find his voice in Release the Bats 'rocket fuel': Pierre's enthusiasm for writing and writers what stops Pierre writing? dog racing, writers and nature 'I am the black sheep in the family. It is my job to have lots of promise and not to fulfil it.' Pierre's father and family hierarchy did Pierre worry that analysing the creative process might wreck the creative process? Pierre on 'the century of neuropsychology' 'Nothing has changed in human nature in two and half million years' 'Our anger and conflict...drive us to write' does writing help? Part three to follow. 

Part one of DBC Pierre's interview chat with This Writing Life podcast starts in media res. With a fan blowing our hair in attractive fashion (apologies for the whoosh behind the voices), we talked on a lovely summer's day at a London hotel. Pierre was in town to launch his new book, Release the Bats, an exuberant, personal and inspiring writing guide, with hints of memoir. A call-to-pen with hints about his colourful life. ----more---- As the tape tolls, we are talking about talking about Will Carruthers' memoir, Playing the Bass with Three Hands: Pierre was to appear at an event with the former Spiritualized bassist that evening. After some meditation on the hotter aspects of being a bass player (some caution is advised), we meander via music, the composition of Pierre's Man Booker winning Vernon God Little, and Pierre: the frustrated rock star. From here we saunter to: Pierre's own music taste why Pierre doesn't listen to music: 'The music provides a soundtrack that makes the writing better than it is' why Pierre writes throughout the night Pierre's routine for writing Vernon God Little 'You can go crazy at night and let yourself fly' losing the plot and creating a plot: Pierre, licence and liminal spaces writing vs editing to plan or not to plan, that is the question... non-fiction vs fiction why write Release the Bats? Pierre on creative writing courses Part 2 of 4 to follow.

The next guest on This Writing Life is DBC Pierre, Man Booker winning novelist, literary rogue and now writing guide supremo thanks to the excellent, ebullient, Birthday Party-quoting call-to-pens, Release the Bats. In this trailer, I ask whether writing ever helps him feel, think or 'be' better. Cue tall tales of a naked Thomas Wolfe fondling himself by a filing cabinet.

We’re delighted to welcome the 2003 Booker-Prize winner, DBC Pierre to discuss his provocative new work on the fiction-writing process, Release the Bats.

Harriett Gilbert talks to the hugely acclaimed writer DBC Pierre about his best-selling first novel Vernon God Little. An absurdly humorous look at the misadventures of a Texas teen named Vernon Little whose best friend has just killed 16 of their classmates and himself. In the wake of the tragedy, the townspeople seek both answers and vengeance; because Vernon was the killer's closest friend, he becomes the focus of their fury. Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotous and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. (Photo: DBC Pierre outside BBC Old Broadcasting House)

Open Book - Evelyn Waugh, DBC Pierre, a literary postcard from Sweden

DBC Pierre tells the story of his friend Cox, who has inspired his writing. DBC Pierre was the surprise-outsider who won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for his debut novel Vernon God Little, a dark satire set in the aftermath of a Texas high school massacre published in 2003. He was born in 1961 in Reynella, Australia. He was brought up in Mexico and the UK, and now lives in County Leitrim, Ireland. He worked previously as a designer and an internationally published cartoonist. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

The singer Loudon Wainwright III, father of Rufus and Martha, discusses his latest album Haven't Got the Blues (Yet). Mad Men star Christina Hendricks talks about her new film, God's Pocket and Irish singer Sinead O'Connor on her new album and new image… The conductor, Sir Neville Marriner discusses his long and varied career and his return to the BBC Proms and following the success of the Inbetweeners TV sitcom making a successful transfer to the big screen, co-creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris talk about their second Inbetweeners film. And Samira Ahmed talks to writer DBC Pierre about his new novella, Breakfast With The Borgias

Samira Ahmed talks to author DBC Pierre, reviews the film Welcome to New York starring Gerard Depardieu, and discusses the world premiere of John Tavener's Requiem Fragments.

Helen McCrory is playing Medea in a new production at London's National Theatre - it's a new take on the Greek tragedy; how can one make a play written 1700 years ago resonate today? Nicolas Cage's new film Joe is a gritty blue collar tale of poverty and misery in rural Mississippi. It shows his gentle side rather than a raving onslaught; might this be a chance for viewers to reassess the way his acting has been heading? The BBC's commemoration of the centenary of WW1 continues with a series Our World War, which imagines what our view of it would be like if the soldiers had modern recording technology like headcams. DBC Pierre's novel Breakfast With The Borgias is the story of a man isolated in a rather shabby guesthouse desperately trying to contact his girlfriend, who vividly discovers the truth behind Sartre's maxim that "Hell is other people". The Imperial War Museum in London has just reopened after a multi-million pound refit - making major structural changes and opening a new WW1 gallery. Has it been money well spent? Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are James Walton, Susan Jeffreys and Kit Davies. The producer is Oliver Jones.

The 62nd Book Slam Podcast is fuller than a family bucket and arguably more sustaining. It features DBC Pierre, reading from and discussing the brilliant 'Petit Mal', Michael Smith introducing us to 'Unreal City', music from Thabo and The Real Deal, comedy from Matt Okine,and the ineffable Salena Godden's memoir, 'Springfield Road'. Elliott and Patrick reunite in a London studio for the first time in months to remarkably familiar effect.

Booker prize winning author DBC Pierre reads from a new short story and talks to Damian about the ultimate hangover cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 30th Book Slam podcast features the inimitable Salena Godden (pictured) doing an excellent impression of herself, DBC Pierre discussing his latest novel, 'Lights Out In Wonderland' and one-man-and-his-pram Lewis Floyd Henry tearing it up like a poster boy for post-Hendrix. Plus acclaimed poet Ruth Padel faces the fear of Angebot and the Book Slam Big 5. Patrick thanks everyone, no thanks to Elliott. 

Mariella Frostrup talks to Mann Booker Prize winner, DBC Pierre about his latest book, discuss Graham Greene in Africa and the Reading Clinic explores contemporary novels inspired by the classics.

O escritor e pesquisador da mídia Juremir Machado da Silva indica ao Café Colombo a leitura do romance Vernon God Little, de DBC Pierre.