Podcast appearances and mentions of Edward St Aubyn

En tidig morgonpodd när Susanna står i startgroparna för att leda Kulturdagarna i Borrby. Det blir Johan Tralau, Anita Goldman, Björn Ranelid, Magnus Ranstorp och Owe Gustafson på litteraurdagen och Jan Troell, Thomas Nordanstad och Owe Gustafson — igen — på filmdagen. Expressen har en semestervikarie — tror vi — Wilhelm Nyström, som skrivit klarspråk om överutbildningen av svenskarna. Microsoftkollapsen visar, igen, hur sköra vi gör våra samhällen när vi litar på algoritmer och AI. Visst kan vi preppa, men det är ett samhällsproblem. Och ingen gör något åt det, vi blir bara mer och mer beroende av datorer. Vi tror inte heller på AI-översättningar, särskilt inte när det ör författare med ett starkt eget språk, som Martin Amis, eller Edward St Aubyn. Det blir inte ens enklare att rätta till svenskan efter att AI grovöversatt. Trump firar triumfer och Republikanerna är inte "övertaget" av Trump numera, det är helt enkelt ett populistiskt, arbetarklassinriktat och nationalistiskt parti, som Peggy Noonan påpekar. Vi har sett Civil War med Kirsten Dunst och Jesse Plemons och är skakade över hur trovärdig berättelsen är. Valet av J D Vance, författare till Hillbilly Elegy, som vicepresidentkandidat är intressant. Åsa Linderborg förstår Vance, men är han bara ute efter makt? Och apropå makt, vad krävs för att kultureliten ska erkänna att de har makt (och därmed ansvar) och hur många bryr sig? Vi recenserar debatten i frågan. Och vi förundras över att inget — absolut inget — händer i det offentliga Sverige, samtidigt som Systemet är sprängfullt redan två minuter över tio. Till sist kan till och med Human Rights Watch komma fram till att Hamas ledde terrorattacken mot Israel och att den medvetet riktades in på civila. Vi tvivlar på tvåstatslösning, men tycker att Bo Rothstein skrivit intressant i ämnet. Och så Lucian Freud, som erkände 14 barn, men bara två inom äktenskapet och 12 med olika älskarinnor. Kanske inte i alla delar ett föredöme, men en fantastisk konstnär. Och en typisk representant för den korta period under efterkrigstiden då bohemeri, kaos och anarkism ansågs helt OK, även om det t ex drabbade minderåriga, antagligen därför att samhället i övrigt var så stabilt. Nu är det inte så stabilt längre och förtjusningen över utmanande beteenden mindre. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/hakeliuspopova. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DESIRE FOR FREEDOM. Edward St Aubyn is a British novelist. Five of his books - Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk and At Last - form the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose Novels. In 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch starred in the title role of the five-part drama Patrick Melrose. Edward's more recent work includes Dunbar - which retells King Lear - and Double Blind, which has been described as 'a book of big ideas, in which the characters experiment with medicine, psychology, narcotics, religion and meditation to understand themselves and find peace. But as cerebral as the book is, it is also deeply felt, because St Aubyn has been thinking about these issues for decades.' “I spoke in every voice except my own.” “I had the double relief of having turned myself into Patrick Melrose, and then Benedict Cumberbatch taking over the burden of being Patrick” “The common driving force of all my work is a desire for freedom”

Oggi conosciamo la quarta delle nostre voci che portano ad Alice il meglio della letteratura straniera: Andreea Simionel. Scrittrice in lingua italiana di origine rumena ha pubblicato due romanzi molto apprezzati: “Male a est e Straniera vita”. In “Le città invisibili” ha raccontato Botosani, è dunque una raccontatrice nata che possiede uno sguardo attento e critico rivolto anche alla produzione letteraria. Per noi ha scelto la saga dei “Melrose”, cinque libri scritti da Edward St Aubyn, editi da Neri Pozza.

Preparem as canetas, e deixo o alerta: a "wish list" vai aumentar. A Madalena fala de óptimos autores, livros partidos, ídolos. E, claro, do seu novo e primeiro livro, bem íntimo: Leme. Sou suspeita, mas acho que vale a pena ouvir esta conversa (e ler todas as recomendações). Os livros que a escritora escolheu para a conversa: A paixão segundo GH, Clarice Lispector. Série Patrick Melrose, Edward St Aubyn (5 livros): - Deixa lá; - Más novas; - Alguma esperança; - Leite materno; - Por fim. “Um lugar ao sol” seguido de “Uma mulher”, Annie Ernaux Berta Isla, Javier Marias. Recomendou outros do Javier Marias: Tomás Nevinson; Coração tão branco; Os enamoramentos. Outros que recomendou: (A ler) “Os diários da Virginia Woolf”; Pequenas virtudes, Natalia Ginzburg; A descoberta do mundo, Clarice Lispector; A louca da Casa, Rosa Montero; Escrever, Marguerite Duras. Recomendei: Uma pequena vida, da Hanya Yanagihara; Escrever, Stephen King; As margens e a escrita, Elena Ferrante; O ano do pensamento mágico, Joan Didion; A metamorfose, Kafka; Todos os amanhãs, Mélissa da Costa; Stoner, John Williams. Ofereci: Limpa, Alia Trabucco Zeran.

More than anything else, the end matters to the novel reader. Novelists, including Austen and Dickens, sometimes changed their minds about their endings, using these changes of mind to explore how an ending satisfies, or fails to satisfy, our expectations.The lecture will explore the rise of the indeterminate ending, from Henry James on. And it will suggest how an ending can, for worse as well as for better, retrospectively change our experience of a novel.A lecture by John Mullan recorded on 5 April 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/endings-novelGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

Join 5x15 online in November to hear acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan in conversation with beloved One Day author and screenwriter David Nicholls. THIS IS NOT A PITY MEMOIR is BAFTA and Emmy-award winner Abi Morgan's extraordinary story, written in the wake of her partner's devastating illness. When she found the man she had loved for nearly twenty years lying on the bathroom floor, it was clear that life for both of them would never be the same again. But this is not a pity memoir – this is a love story. This is a book about the things you wished you'd said to the person you love; about the silence of being lost in space, and the importance of family, and parties, and noise. It's about not knowing and not being known. It's about the difference between living and surviving, and about finding a way to carry on when life is turned upside down. Above all, it's a reminder that, even in the worst times, there is light ahead. Praise for Abi Morgan ‘Breathtaking.. this book is a gift' - MERYL STREEP ‘The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends: 'Have you read it?' - CAITLIN MORAN ‘Truly breathtaking. Arrestingly honest, funny, profound and exquisitely written. I could not have loved it more' - CAREY MULLIGAN ABI MORGAN is a BAFTA and Emmy-award winning playwright and screenwriter whose credits include The Iron Lady, Suffragette, Sex Traffic, The Hour, Brick Lane and Shame. She is the creator and writer of BBC drama, The Split. DAVID NICHOLLS is one of Britain's most successful writers with an incomparable talent for making us laugh, cry and wince with recognition. He is the author of five bestselling novels - Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us and Sweet Sorrow – which have sold over 8 million copies worldwide and are published in forty languages. David is also a sought-after screenwriter- his first break came when he wrote for the third series of Cold Feet. Highlights since then have included adapting Far From the Madding Crowd and Great Expectations and his own first novels Starter for Ten and One Day into feature films. His most recent screenwork was Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, adapted from the novels by Edward St Aubyn. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Edward St Aubyn, „Pimekatse“. Postimehe kirjastuselt. Inglise keelest tõlkinud Inna Feldbach. Loeb Priit Rand. Selle nädala järjejutt viib kuulaja rahvarohkesse Londonisse, asuursinisesse merre ulatuva Cap d'Antibes'i neemele, looduskaunile Big Suri rannikule ja Sussexi maakonna metsastatud nurgakesesse, kus ökoloogiat, psühhoanalüüsi, geneetikat ja neuroloogiat puudutavaid küsimusi lahkavad teadmisjanused tegelased leiavad end üha sagedamini juurdlemas armastuse, hirmu ja vapruse üle ning püüavad saada aru, miks me mõnikord põgeneme selle eest, mida iseendast ja oma lähedastest teame.

Esta es una muestra de "¿Será buena persona el cocinero?". La versión completa tiene una duración total de 8 h 48 min. Encuentra este audiolibro completo en: https://bit.ly/serabuenapersonaelcocinero-audiolibroNarrado por: Arturo LópezEste volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021. «Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavía los niños de mi infancia llamaban “palabra de honor”. Somos una sociedad “desenfadada” y además lo tenemos a gala (bueno, en todo lo demás muy enfadada)», dice Javier Marías en uno de los artículos de este libro. En una época en la que la realidad se muestra insistente, repetitiva y tozuda, el autor invita a sus lectores, en cada una de las piezas recogidas en ¿Será buena persona el cocinero?, a detenerse y reflexionar libremente, sin atender a demagogias ni manipulaciones, sobre los más diversos aspectos del tiempo presente. Y lo hace como lo ha hecho siempre: con valentía, sin concesiones, y con un estilo impecable y un envidiable sentido del humor. La sociedad actual, olvidadiza y pretendidamente virtuosa, lidia con una opinión pública que se erige como juez intransigente e injusto de todo y todos los que se alejan de los cánones de conducta impuestos en los últimos años. Por ello, defiende el autor, se hace más necesario que nunca mantener un pensamiento crítico. «Tal vez lo malo no sea nunca tanto lo que nos pasa, cuanto lo que nos hacen creer que nos pasa», recuerda que escribió en una ocasión su padre, Julián Marías. Y añade: «Porque lo segundo hoy suena muy grave, y lo primero no lo es tanto, sólo un poco, y a ratos». La crítica ha dicho:«Gloriosa frase tras gloriosa frase... ¿Hay en Europa mejor escritor vivo que Javier Marías?»The Independent «Marías es sencillamente asombroso.»Ali Smith «Quien no lea a Marías está condenado.»The Nation «Su mente es profunda, aguda, a veces turbadora, a veces hilarante, y siempre inteligente.»Edward St Aubyn, The New York Times Book Review «Una oportunidad para seguir sus razonamientos lúcidos y penetrantes, [...] nunca pomposos ni aduladores. Se trata de fomentar la personalidad y la inteligencia de los lectores, de servirles un trampolín para enriquecerse a pensar sobre lo que no se piensa o no se permite cuestionar.»Miquel Escudero, CatalunyaPress© 2022, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U.#penguinaudio #audiolibro #audiolibros #marías #javiermarías See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Booze as muse or a sure road to ruin? In this month's episode, William Palmer – author of In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers – and Henry Jeffreys – author of Empire of Booze and The Cocktail Dictionary – join the Slightly Foxed team to mull over why alcohol is such an enduring feature in literature.  From the omnipresence of cocktails in John Cheever's short stories and ritual aperitifs in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels to Mr Picksniff falling into Mrs Todger's fireplace in Martin Chuzzlewit and P. G. Wodehouse's hangover remedies for booze-soaked Bertie Wooster, drinks are social signifiers in fiction. Charles Dickens was fond of sherry cobblers and Jean Rhys knocked back Pernod in Paris, while Malcolm Lowry was a dipsomaniac and Flann O'Brien dreamed up alcoholic ink for the Irish Times, rendering readers drunk from fumes. We ask why gin denotes despair and port is always jovial, and question whether hitting the bottle helps or hinders the creative process in writers. Following a convivial sherry, we're whisked away on a wet-your-whistle-stop tour of drinking dens with our friends at London Literary Tours, barrelling from bars propped up by Oscar Wilde to the follies of Dylan Thomas at Soho's French House via Ian Fleming's Vesper cocktail at Dukes. And we finish with a final round of reading recommendations, visiting a whisky distillery in Pakistan in Lawrence Osbourne's The Wet and the Dry, enjoying Happy Hour with Marlowe Granados and stopping for a nightcap at Kingsley Amis's ghostly local The Green Man. (Episode duration: 41 minutes; 16 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Anne Fadiman, The Wine Lover's Daughter, Slightly Foxed Edition No. 57 (1:39) William Palmer, In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers (2:24) Henry Jeffreys, Empire of Booze (2:33) Henry Jeffreys, The Cocktail Dictionary Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (3:41) Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking (4:45) Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman (6:40) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (11:16) Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (11:49) Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley (12:17) Patricia Highsmith, Diaries and Notebooks Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (14:54) Edward St Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels (17:03) Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (19:01) Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (20:42) John Cheever, Collected Stories (23:26) Jeremy Lewis, Kindred Spirits (26:05) Ladybird Books: What to Look For in . . . Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (33:05) Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (35:13) Lawrence Osbourne, The Wet and the Dry (36:45) Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour (38:27) Related Slightly Foxed Articles The Smoking Bishop, William Palmer on drinking and drunkenness in Dickens, Issue 16 (8:52) On the Randy Again, William Palmer on Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Issue 30 (3:41) Cheers!, Henry Jeffreys on Bernard DeVoto, The Hour & Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking, Issue 68 (4:45) A Quare One, Patrick Welland on the novels of Flann O'Brien, Issue 41 (6:40) Voyage in the Dark, Patricia Cleveland-Peck on the novels of Jean Rhys, Issue 4 (10:22) With a Notebook and a Ukelele, Gordon Bowker on the stories of Malcolm Lowry, Issue 37 (19:46) A Visit from God, William Palmer on Kingsley Amis, The Green Man, Issue 20 (35:09) Other Links London Literary Tours (28.00) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

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Självsäker eller mallgroda? I månadens avsnitt pratar vi om stolthet i allehanda former; feelgoodgenrens kurva från hopplös till harmonisk (som påminner misstänkt mycket om feelbadgenrens kurva), yrkesstoltheten i “Återstoden av dagen” av Ishiguro, framgångssagornas favoritforum självbiografin och kanske viktigast av allt queerlitteraturens stolthet - pride! Åsa delar ut en sexa på en femgradig skala till en bok och Sissel tar steget från att tipsa om specifika titlar till att rekommendera hela listor med böcker på ett bräde. Dessutom utser vi Magnus Roosmann till stolthetens röst. Lyssna nu så får du veta varför!Titlarna i avsnitt 96 hittar du här:“Reprieve” av James Han Mattsson, inläst av JD Jackson“Familjelexikon” av Natalia Ginzburg (e-bok)“Söta röda sommardrömmar” av Christoffer Holst, inläst av Anja Lundqvist“Glöm det” av Edward St Aubyn, inläst av Magnus RoosmannKejsarens nya kläder av H.C. Andersen, inläst av Margareta Mård“Hundra år av ensamhet” av Gabriel García Márquez, inläst av Magnus Roosman“Allt jag fått lära mig” av Tara Westover inläst av Katarina Cohen“Återstoden av dagen” av Kazuo Ishiguro, inläst av Reine Brynolfsson“Sanning och skvaller” av Curtis Sittenfeld inläst av Gunilla Leining“The Song of Achilles” av Madeline Miller, inläst av Frazer Douglas“Drömmen om Tom” av Sara Dalengren, inläst av Viktor Åkerblom“Ek” av Frida Andersson Johansson, inläst av Gunilla Leining“Saliga äro de som törsta” av Anne Holt, inläst av Magnus Roosmann See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Patrick Melrose, naslovni junak knjižne pentologije angleškega prozaista Edwarda St Aubyna, je avtorjev alter ego, ki nudi razkrivajoč vpogled v resnične patologije najvišje angleške aristokracije. Kot plod raziskovanja odnosov "od blizu" in razmer znotraj te, od običajnih ljudi izolirane družbe, poišče tudi razloge za globoke osebne travme, ki jih doživlja kot sicer priviligiran in izobražen posameznik, dolgotrajen odvisnik od drog in alkohola… Kljub številnim zlorabam in demonom, ki ga preganjajo od otroštva, išče lastne poti iz kaotičnega in toksičnega okolja, zaznamovanega z nečlovečnostjo, izdajstvi in nezaupanjem … Cikel sestavlja sicer pet romanov, ki bodo v slovenščini izšli v dveh delih, prvi, ki zajema tri romane ali poglavja iz življenja pisatelja in hrati knjižnega protagonista, je mojstrsko prevedel Uroš Kalčič.

Edward St. Aubyn discusses his new book, “Double Blind,” and writing about the problems with consciousness that have long fascinated his consciousness.

Today's episode features a special audiobook extract from Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn, narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.You can find out more about Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn here: https://bit.ly/2ODyN9UTo listen to a previous episode, 'Symbiosis and Psychedelics ᛫ Edward St Aubyn & Merlin Sheldrake', tune in here or search on your podcast app: https://bit.ly/3fgMiqWFollow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Manches im Leben strahlt so hell, dass es nur aus der Entfernung wirklich gesehen werden kann. Die erste große Liebe ist so eine Sache, die immer noch leuchtet, auch wenn sie längst verglüht ist. Genauso ist es Charlie Lewis ergangen. Nichts an ihm ist besonders. Dann begegnet er Fran Fisher, und seine Welt steht Kopf. In den langen, hellen Nächten eines unvergesslichen Sommers macht Charlie die schönsten, peinlichsten und aufregendsten Erfahrungen seines Lebens. Und steht zwanzig Jahre später vor der Frage, ob er sich traut, seine erste große Liebe wiederzutreffen. Über den Autor: David Nicholls, Jahrgang 1966, ist ausgebildeter Schauspieler, hat sich dann aber für das Schreiben entschieden. Mit seinem Roman „Zwei an einem Tag“ gelang ihm der Durchbruch, seine Romane wurden in vierzig Sprachen übersetzt und verkauften sich weltweit über acht Millionen mal. 2014 wurde sein Roman „Drei auf Reisen“ für den Man Booker Prize nominiert. Auch als Drehbuchautor ist David Nicholls überaus erfolgreich und mehrfach preisgekrönt, zuletzt erhielt er den BAFTA und eine Emmy-Nominierung für „Patrick Melrose“, seine Adaption der Romane von Edward St Aubyn, die als HBO-Serie Furore machte.

Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth's brilliant 4th book, The Party, comes out on 13th July and has whiffs of the Patrick Melrose novels, by Edward St Aubyn. Pandora and Dolly talk privilege and poshness and quiz Elizabeth, who is an esteemed interviewer, on her favourite ever celebrity interview (Clint Eastwood) and her worst (Rob Lowe.) Also in this week's episode: Rob Kardashian's misogynistic social media meltdown and his restraining order from ex-fiancée Blac Chyna (and why shaming women with their bodies is a far from defunct trope) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melan-melon/support

Could bliss be transmitted by a Happy Helmet? Are the fantasies of the super-wealthy secretly shaping our lives? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss a new novel, Double Blind, by Edward St Aubyn. It is a story of ideas, including issues previously explored in these dialogues, from the nature of consciousness and the revelations of psychedelics, to the missing heritability problem and the replication crisis. St Aubyn has richly addressed our moment with its environmental and existential concerns. His characters explore matters of paramount important as they effect real lives. His book invites us to ask ourselves about the worldviews we hold and the ways in which our imaginations reach out for tomorrow.For more dialogues between Rupert and Mark see:https://www.sheldrake.org/audios/sheldrake-vernon-dialogueshttps://www.markvernon.com/talks

Could bliss be transmitted by a Happy Helmet? Are the fantasies of the super-wealthy secretly shaping our lives? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss a new novel, Double Blind, by Edward St Aubyn. It is a story of ideas, including issues previously explored in these dialogues, from the nature of consciousness and the revelations of psychedelics, to the missing heritability problem and the replication crisis. St Aubyn has richly addressed our moment with its environmental and existential concerns. His characters explore matters of paramount important as they effect real lives. His book invites us to ask ourselves about the worldviews we hold and the ways in which our imaginations reach out for tomorrow.

CN contains mentions of hallucinogenic drugsYou can find out more about Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn here: https://bit.ly/2ODyN9UYou can find out more about Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake here: https://bit.ly/2GNsRa9To listen to a previous episode in which Merlin discusses 'Entangled Life', search 'Vintage Books Podcast: Discovering the world of fungi ᛫ Merlin Sheldrake' on the podcast platform you're currently using or click here: https://bit.ly/2JKaap5Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Edward St Aubyn is the award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose series. His new novel, Double Blind, also revolves around transformation and the headlong pursuit of knowledge. He tells Tom Sutcliffe that his characters range across the sciences – from genetics to ecology to psychoanalysis. And their investigations into inheritance, freedom and consciousness intertwine with their feelings of love, fear and greed. Isaac Newton is often revered as the scientific genius of the 18th century: an unworldly scholar who abandoned his intellectual life to rescue the country’s finances. But the academic Patricia Fara paints a more complicated picture in Life After Gravity. Here Newton is seen in the last 30 years of his life as he heads both the Royal Mint and the Royal Society – a scientist who revelled in the dirty worlds of money and politics. Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor who has also forged a career presenting health and science programmes on radio and television. With his twin brother Xand he has put competing health theories to the test, and shared his own personal experience of Covid 19. In his new series for Radio 4, The Jump, he investigates the latest scientific evidence looking at how animal viruses spread to humans, and how far human behaviours are causing pandemics. Producer: Katy Hickman

Kate and Cassie are joined by journalist Brooke Boney and academic Nicole Moore as they read Edward St Aubyn's Double Blind, Lisa Harding's Bright Burning Things and Steven Carroll's O

This week, we’re speaking to the editor of Strong Words magazine, Ed Needham. Ed is a veteran of magazines in the UK and US. In the 1990’s, he edited the massively popular, FHM before moving to New York to launch and edit the same title. Later, he would go on to become managing editor of Rolling Stone magazine and editor-in-chief of US Maxim, which, at that point, was the biggest-selling men’s magazine in the world. In 2018, Ed decided to combine his experience with his passion for books and created a brand new magazine called Strong Words. Written and edited by the man himself, the magazine is packed full of interviews, news, and reviews – there are over 100 books featured in each issue. Elizabeth Day says the magazine is ‘Genius’ and Sebastian Faulks calls it ‘A Must Read’. With nine publications a year, the magazine is perfect for any bookworm. --- Books mentioned in this episode: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - https://bit.ly/3ejVXfT The Disappearing Act : The Impossible Case of Mh370 by Florence de Changy - https://bit.ly/3kZEcUv Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West - https://bit.ly/3l1tvRa Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - https://bit.ly/3busWML Repentance by Eloisa Diaz - https://bit.ly/3rDsMbm The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn - https://bit.ly/3cfemrv The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - https://bit.ly/3t85Y42 -- Produced & presented by the team at Mostly Books (www.mostly-books.co.uk) www.twitter.com/mostlyreading www.instagram.com/mostlybooks_shop Edited by Nick Short (www.instagram.com/alongstoryshorter)

A decade after his multi-million selling book "One Day" made us weep, Bafta-winning, Man Booker Prize-nominated screenwriter and author David Nicholls talks to Eve Jackson about the impossibility of writing in lockdown, his newly translated into French first-love novel "Sweet Sorrow" and what it was like delving into the dark world of Edward St Aubyn's novels to write the TV series "Patrick Melrose" with Benedict Cumberbatch. The British writer also shares his must reads for lockdown.

I avsnitt 82 har det blivit dags för kampen vi alla väntat på - feelgood mot feelbad. Åsa och Sissel har utmanat varandra att läsa något utanför sin bekvämlighetszon vilket inneburit att Sissel som älskar eskapism och en varm känsla i magen fick sätta tänderna i klimatdystopin “Blå” av Maja Lunde, medan Åsa som älskar att grotta ned sig i lidande fick smaka på gemytligt tedrickande och syskonkärlek i “En halv värld bort” av Mike Gayle.Så, vad är att föredra, riktiga ärkesvin till sadister som fadern i böckerna om Patrick Melrose, skrivna av Edward St Aubyn eller eller Marita Conlon-McKennas snälla modist Ellie Matthews som bara försöker driva en liten hattaffär på hörnet i sin mammas minne men tvingas utkämpa en strid mot Dublins stora byggherrar? Ja, om det råder det oerhört delade meningar. Oavsett vad du föredrar så kan du här välja mellan de bästa titlarna i sin genre när Åsa och Sissel tipsar om sina favoriter.Sissel längtar efter att få dyka ned i nya serien “42 kilo kärlek” av Felicia Welander, inläst av Maria Lyckow, som handlar om hundkärlek och vänskap. Titta bara på omslaget, det är rent omöjligt att inte bli glad av det! Åsa vill inte lägga tid på något som inte sliter hjärtat ur kroppen och börjar för vi vet inte vilken gång i ordningen att älta “Den unge Werthers lidanden” av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Det snackas det om “Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn” av Johanna Frid, "Bridget Jones dagbok" av Helen Fielding och hel massa andra fantastiska titlar. Dessutom smyger sig en hjärtknipande anekdot om tandkrämstub in i mixen!Månadens Smash Hit är “Livet efter dig” av feelgood-drottningen Jojo Moyes. I det här avsnittet finns det verkligen något för alla! Feedback kan du ge på podcast@storytel.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our annual roundup of all the books we read in 2019! We share number of books read (Hannah smokes us all, of course), give out awards, and look ahead to 2020. Links:  NYT 100 Notable books for 2019 Patricia Lockwood on John Updike Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwenyth Paltrow/Goop  Books mentioned: Furious Hours, Casey Cep; The Topeka School, Ben Lerner; Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Normal People & Converations with Friends, Sally Rooney; Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday; Trust Exercise, Susan Choi; Transcription, Kate Atkinson; The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Educated, Tara Westover; Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Ladies Who Punch, Ramin Setoodeh; Here I am, Jonathan Safran Foer; The Overstory, Richard Powers; Find Me, Andre Aciman; The Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St Aubyn; Circe, Madeline Miller; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevksy; The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante; Howard’s End, E.M. Forster.

Möt den brittiske författaren Edward St Aubyn, född 1960, i samtal med Johanna Koljonen. St Aubyn slog igenom med romanerna om Patrick Melrose, som har självbiografisk grund. Romanerna utkom mellan 1992 och 2012, och var med på listan när BBC 2015 rankade de 100 bästa brittiska romanerna någonsin. I vinter är St Aubyn aktuell med romanen "Dunbar", hans version av Kung Lear och är ett tragikomiskt porträtt av en dysfunktionell överklassfamilj. Johanna Koljonen är kritiker, programledare och författare. Hon har en examen i engelsk litteratur, har belönats med Stora Journalistpriset och vunnit På spåret. På Internationell författarscen har hon tidigare samtalat med bland andra Neil Gaiman, Margaret Drabble, Umberto Eco och Dmitrij Gluchovskij. I samarbete med Albert Bonniers Förlag. Från 3 december 2019 Jingel: Lucas Brar

David Nicholls – bestselling author of five novels including One Day and Sweet Sorrow, and BAFTA-winning screenwriter – has me over for a cup of tea at the surprisingly peaceful inner-city office where he does all his writing. He talks me through his process (and how it’s differed with every book); how he turned Edward St Aubyn’s five Patrick Melrose books into five perfect hours of television; and why it was letter writing that kicked off his career. Logo design by Ben Neale

In this first episode we get to meet hosts Will Rycroft, Holly Davies and Dan Bird as they talk with bestselling author and screenwriter David Nicholls about their beginnings with books. Nicholls also shares his experiences as actor which feed directly into his new novel, Sweet Sorrow, which charts one life-changing summer as Charlie meets Fran during rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet and the two experience the transformative power of first love. Nicholls also speaks about his BAFTA Award-winning adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels for TV. There's also the chance to hear from Michael Palin as he talks about the fear and excitement that attends to the beginning of almost any enterprise, whether that be a journey, a new TV programme or sitting down to write fresh comedy. His latest book, Erebus, tells the story of HMS Erebus, the famous exploring vessel which went missing in the Arctic and whose wreck was recently discovered. We also hear from Tomi Adeyemi's event to launch her Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Fiction category-winning YA novel, Children of Blood and Bone. She shares a brilliant story about a young girl jumping to the head of the signing queue to demonstrate the importance of representation in encouraging younger generations to begin writing themselves. BOOKS MENTIONED: Sweet Sorrow, Erebus, Children of Blood and Bone, Patrick Melrose, The Bad Beginning, Tales of the City, Dear Ijeawele

15 maja 2019 roku w Instytucie Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego odbył się pojedynek dwojga znakomitych tłumaczy.   Pióra skrzyżowali:   Paulina Braiter, znana postać w polskim fandomie fantastyki, która tłumaczyła m.in. Hobbita J.R.R. Tolkiena, a także książki i komiksy takich gigantów jak Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, Isaac Asimov i wielu innych.   Piotr W. Cholewa, również aktywny działacz polskiego fandomu fantastycznego, najlepiej znany ze swoich tłumaczeń Świata Dysku Terry’ego Pratchetta, ale także książek takich autorów jak Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Roger Zelazny czy Ursula K. Le Guin.   Oboje przełożyli humoreskę fantastyczną Russella Bakera A Sinister Metamorphosis: Paulina Braiter jako Złowieszczą przemianę, Piotr W. Cholewa jako Złowróżbną przemianę.   Sędzią pojedynku i moderatorem rozmowy o różnicach i podobieństwach między oboma tekstami był Łukasz Witczak (STL), tłumacz książek m.in. takich autorów i autorek jak Edward St Aubyn, Margaret Atwood czy Howard Jacobson.   Na przekład jest podcastem Stowarzyszenia Tłumaczy Literatury, organizacji, która od 2009 roku zrzesza tłumaczy i tłumaczki książek, działając na rzecz lepszej widoczności zawodu, godziwych warunków pracy i życia oraz przyjaznych kontaktów między tłumaczami książek w Polsce i na świecie.   Na stronie Stowarzyszenia (stl.org.pl) można znaleźć dużą bazę ogólnodostępnej wiedzy dla osób zainteresowanych pracą tłumacza literackiego, a także kontakty do tłumaczy i tłumaczek zrzeszonych w STL.   Jeszcze więcej danych i informacji na temat aspektów finansowych, prawnych i organizacyjnych dostępnych jest dla zalogowanych członków.   Chętnie wysłuchamy Waszych uwag i sugestii pod adresem podcast@stl.org.pl   Grafika pochodzi ze strony z darmowymi grafikami na pulpity (abstract.desktopnexus.com).

Två tips på familjekrönikor. Peppe imponeras av Min Jin Lees berättelse Pachinko om förtrycket av invandrade koreaner i Japan. Karin har valt sommarens ljudboksserie - romansviten om Patrick Melrose av Edward St Aubyn om en familj i sönderfall i den engelska överklassen. Smakprov på Manhattan Beach av Jennifer Egan, analys av Horace Engdahl, översättningens vedermödor och den svåra konsten att vara bitch-geni. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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December betyder jul och jul betyder för många av oss familjesammankomster. Nu vältrar vi oss därför i allt vad familj vill säga: mys och mardröm frustration och förståelse, tillhörighet, trasighet, trivsel, terror, allt i en enda röra. Vem kan vara mer lämpad att tillföra ett perspektiv i familjefrågan än Jonas Hassen Khemiri, just nu aktuell med hyllade romanen "Pappaklausulen"? Förmodligen ingen! Sissel och Jonas pratar öppenhjärtigt om vad en pappaklausul egentligen är, varför familjen utgör en så utmärkt grund för dramatiska romaner och hur det är att anlita din bror som inläsare till dina böcker. Vi pratar också utförligt om böckerna vi har lyssnat på till den här gången, Sissel gillar "Moderskap" av Sheila Heti och Åsa placerar samma bok på livets topp tio-lista. Även "Jag for ner till bror" av debuterande Karin Smirnoff höjs till skyarna i detta passionerade avsnitt. "De små tingens gud" är månadens SMASH HIT, så du som gillar hjärtskärande indiska moderna syskondraman får tre specialanpassade tips för vidare läsning. Andra böcker vi tipsar om i det här avsnittet är: ”The Silence of the Girls” av Pat Barker, Storytels egen julkalender ”Centralgången” av Storytel Writers' Room, ”NPCs” av Drew Hayes, Böckerna om Harry Potter av J K Rowling, ”Ronja Rövardotter” av Astrid Lindgren, Narnia-serien av C.S. Lewis, ”Flickorna” av Emma Cline, Romanerna om Patrick Melrose av Edward St Aubyn, "Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang" av Barbro Lindgren, Muminböckerna av Tove Jansson, ”Pachinko" av Min Jin Lee, ”De dödas sång” av Jesmyn Ward och "Svindlande höjder" av Emily Brontë.I nästa avsnitt avhandlar vi genren science fiction, så till dess lyssnar vi på "The Martian - Ensam på Mars" av Andy Weir, uppläst av Björn Bengtsson och "Slutet" av Mats Strandberg inläst av Hedda Stiernstedt och Christopher LehmannLyssna lugnt i iulstressen! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Edward St. Aubyn's Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last: The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels, recently adapted into a five-episode limited series on Showtime.

De fem bøkene om Patrick Melrose har nå blitt en miniserie med Benedict Cumberbatch i hovedrollen. Bøkene og TV-serien får anmelderne til å klappe i takt, og serien er nå nominert til flere priser. Patrick Melrose er kjent for sin drepende ironi, elegante stil og nådeløse avkledning av den britiske overklassen. Kulturmisjonen snakker om serien, bøkene og arvesynd i dagens episode. I studio sitter Arne Christian Konradsen og Ingrid Nyhus. Kulturmisjonen er en podcast laget av Stiftelsen Areopagos i samarbeid med Moderne Media.

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh are joined by arts journalist Martin Portus, literary scholar Helen Groth and historian Clare Monagle to talk fiction.

We've all got them, but thankfully not too many are like the mob in Patrick Melrose, the mini-series based on the memoirs of Edward St Aubyn. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hugo Weaving and it is (says Karl) excellent, if rather gruelling. The Incredibles 2 is much easier going, says Andrew, a long-time-coming sequel that was absolutely worth the wait. In The Wife, meanwhile, Glenn Close is superb as the long-suffering spouse of a novelist (Jonathan Pryce) who is awarded the Nobel Prize - but is that prying journalist (Christian Slater) right in thinking he isn't the real author? All this and more on the latest episode of our favourite podcast for discerning consumers of culture high and low.   TRAILER: The Incredibles 2 VARIETY: 'Incredbles 2' passes $1 billion worldwide TRAILER: The Wife KARL QUINN: Benedict Cumberbatch is superb, but it's Hugo Weaving who makes Patrick Melrose TRAILER: Get Shorty     Music by Max Sergeev from Fugue.   Karl Quinn is on Twitter, Facebook and writes a lot for Fairfax Media. The Clappers is produced by Nearly, a podcast network.   Find a new podcast! The Debrief with Dave O'Neil - Dave gives a comedian a lift home from a gig. 10 Questions with Adam Zwar - The same 10 questions with answers that vary wildly. Scale Up - How does a company go from 5 laptops to 200 staff? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harriett Gilbert and guests talk favourite books, including Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn (the first in his Patrick Melrose series) & The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Her guests are the journalist and broadcaster Tony Parsons, who started his career at the NME and went on to write Man and Boy and later the bestselling DC Max Wolfe thriller series. And Olly Mann, presenter of award-winning podcasts and radio programmes including Answer Me This!, The Modern Mann and BBC Radio 4's The Male Room and Four Thought. Producer: Mair Bosworth

加拿大学者马歇尔·麦克卢汉最早提出的地球村 Global Village这个概念是1962年，但是这个词是在1968年在大众视野闪亮，甚至是爆炸式的登场，波兰、法国、美国、墨西哥，这些政治文化经济状态千差万别的国家，当然除此之外还有日本、德国、意大利、南斯拉夫等等，甚至是莫斯科红场，在没有社交媒体的帮助下，发生了一场又一场的，要看你的政治立场，可以被称为抗议、罢工、占领、群众运动、骚乱、反革命运动或者是群体事件。这些一连串事件的前因后果包括暗杀社会精英、屠杀平民百姓、坦克开进布拉格市中心，导致1968年成为人类历史上前无古人后无来者的一年。这期节目我和艺术史学家张宇凌和历史学家方曌一起重温1968。#会员通知# 我会在6.16邮件各位这期节目的彩蛋内容，呈现一个非常不一样的1968年，芝加哥大学的经济学家弗里德曼那年也发表了一个演说，对今后50年世界的影响可能超过了所有学生运动的总和。节目中提到的信息：非虚构《景观社会》，居伊·德波https://book.douban.com/subject/1775264节目中我们说的春季攻势在维基百科叫“新春攻势”/Tet Offensivehttp://suo.im/55CEEL马丁路德金遇刺后的一张著名照片，Joseph Louwhttp://suo.im/5kF27x方曌提到剑桥年轻学生叫托尼·朱特/Tony Judthttps://book.douban.com/author/418271/小说《查泰莱夫人的情人》，D. H. 劳伦斯https://book.douban.com/subject/4859493/电影《中国姑娘》，戈达尔https://movie.douban.com/subject/1302589/益康糯米提到法国文化部长是 André Malraux 马尔罗，他开除了 La Cinémathèque française 的创办人 Henri Langlois电影《寻找小糖人》， Stephen Segermanhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/7015798/音乐《I Wonder》，Sixto Rodriguezhttp://music.163.com/#/song?id=18669849小说/英剧 Patrick Melrose, Edward St Aubyn出现在文化土豆050文集《散漫地步向伯利恒》/Slouching Towards Bethlehem，琼·狄迪恩http://suo.im/4Y6sPa史诗《埃涅阿斯纪》，维吉尔https://book.douban.com/subject/1185910/Enoch Powell 的“血河演说” / River of Blood Speechhttp://suo.im/4J42LU张宇凌提到的巴黎美元的版画海报，今年有一个50周年回顾展览http://suo.im/4CdNxT线上图库：http://jeanpaulachard.com/mai/杰梅茵·格里尔创办的杂志叫 SUCK（1968-1974），全套在 Abebooks 有一套出售，1750美元，有没有老板愿意收藏，再让我看看？http://suo.im/4Y6txw非虚构《女太监》，杰梅茵·格里尔/Germaine Greerhttps://book.douban.com/subject/6520826/感谢收听这期节目，我们是一个由会员赞助播出的文艺潮流圆桌节目，聊影视、思想和艺术。如果你愿意为文化土豆出一分力，请访问 www.culturepotato.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The poet Rishi Dastidar joins John and Andy to talk about Sebastian Faulks' least known and first non-fiction title, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives. Also in this episode Andy talks about the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn while John has been enjoying Folk by Zoe Gilbert. For full show notes, links, further reading and tasteful merchandise visit www.backlisted.fm

Writer David Nicholls, best known for One Day, talks about bringing sex, drugs and a silver spoon to life in his television adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Gaz Coombes, former frontman of alternative rock band Supergrass, performs a track from his new album, World's Strongest Man, live in the studio and discusses its eclectic influences including the artist Grayson Perry.Kayo Chingonyi is a 31-year-old Zambian-born British poet whose collection Kumukanda was last night announced as the winner of the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize - at £30,000, the biggest prize open to young writers. He'll be reading live in the studio and talking to John about what his win means.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson.

Executive producer Rachel Horvitz, author and screenwriter David Nicholls, director Edward Berger + actor Indira Varma talk about getting the rights for Edward St Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical, best-selling novel and bringing the story to the screen with Benedict Cumberbatch for the new Sky series.

The author explains how he reimagined Shakespeare’s thundering patriarch as a modern media baron in Dunbar, and we consider the plight of literary novelists

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to author Edward St Aubyn, who is best known for his five autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, which dissect the agonies of family life with honesty, wit and precision. His debut novel Never Mind won a Betty Trask award, while our chosen book is the fourth in the Melrose series, Mother's Milk, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker prize. In Mother's Milk, the middle aged Patrick Melrose is married with two young children. He finds his wife consumed with motherhood and his mother consumed by a New Age Foundation, and about to disinherit him in favour of a suspect Irish shaman. The novel opens with a dazzling scene as Patrick's first son Robert narrates his own birth as it happens, and then grows into a young boy who understands far more about life than he ought. Patrick is caught in the family wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide and his once wealthy, illustrious family is in peril. In this rare interview, Edward St Aubyn admits he does not enjoy discussing his work in public, and says that in Mother's Milk there is less of himself in the character of Patrick than in the previous novels; and he describes the writing processes behind his acerbically funny and disarmingly tender novel. Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed guest : Edward St Aubyn Producer : Dymphna Flynn December's Bookclub choice : A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010).

The author of the Patrick Melrose novels talks about adapting the story of one of Shakespeare’s most dysfunctional families for the Hogarth Shakespeare series. In Edward St. Aubyn’s version of “King Lear,” called “Dunbar,” Lear becomes a media mogul whose evil daughters have locked him away in a psychiatric hospital. Edward St. Aubyn is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published November 1, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode, “Th’ Untented Woundings of a Father’s Curse,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had help from Andrew Feliciano and Evan Marquardt at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California and Paul Reuest at Argot Studios in New York.

Peter Høeg's internationally bestselling Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow was the original Scandi-crime thriller. First published in 1992 the novel's runaway success was due to its extraordinary central character, 37 year old Smilla Qaavigaaq Jasperson, as well as the unfamiliar backdrop of snowy Copenhagen and the icy wastes of Greenland. Smilla is half-Dane and half-Inuit; she is unmarried, childless, independent and irascible and yet she forms an unlikely friendship with her neighbour six year old Isaiah. The book opens when the young boy has fallen to his death from the roof of their apartment building; it's ruled an accident, yet Smilla, an expert on ice and snow, can tell from his footprints that he was running from someone. She begins her own investigation, forming an uneasy friendship with another neighbour, a mechanic. Smilla uncovers a trail of clues, and her sense of snow leads her into a mystery that goes back decades. Peter Høeg explains how the character of Smilla came to him in an unlikely way, as he saw a Somalian woman cross the street in Copenhagen and knew his next main character would be called Smilla. For Høeg, books are intuitive and less logical than daily life. He candidly discloses that Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow was written by a young and inexperienced novelist, and how looking back, he is dissatisfied and rather ashamed of its enigmatic ending. He says that writing a novel is like running a marathon, it's an intense experience, and by the end, the writer can lose concentration in his exhaustion. Presented by James Naughtie Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed guest : Peter Høeg Producer : Dymphna Flynn November's Bookclub choice : Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn (2006).

It's our second author special this week, with journalist and author, Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth's brilliant 4th book, The Party, comes out on 13th July and has whiffs of the Patrick Melrose novels, by Edward St Aubyn. Pandora and Dolly talk privilege and poshness and quiz Elizabeth, who is an esteemed interviewer, on her favourite ever celebrity interview (Clint Eastwood) and her worst (Rob Lowe.) Also in this week's episode: Rob Kardashian's misogynistic social media meltdown and his restraining order from ex-fiancée Blac Chyna (and why shaming women with their bodies is a far from defunct trope) plus Harper Beckham's birthday party, hosted by one of Dolly's favourite royals. Watching Gypsy on Netflix Baby Driver Reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Golden Age of Bailing, via The New York Times > https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/opinion/the-golden-age-of-bailing.html?referer=https://t.co/dzI1aZedF7 Why coconut oil is bullshit, via The Guardian > https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/09/coconut-oil-debunked-health-benefits-big-fat-lie-superfood-saturated-fats-lard The Party, by Elizabeth Day Follow us on Good Reads > thehighlowshow Tweet @thehighlowshow E-mail thehighlowshow@gmail.com And PLEASE rate, review & subscribe on iTunes. It helps other people find the podcast. NB: no podcast next week. We on holidays. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Edward St Aubyn är här, vi talar om sorgens kraft och hämnd. Så kommer poeten Lisa Zetterdahl hit, och Sven Teglund, med sin mor Siri Johanssons poetiska dagboksanteckningar. Böckerna om Patrick Melrose skrivna av författaren Edward St Aubyn beskriver en ung pojkes uppväxt i engelsk överklass, på franska ägor. Redan som barn utsätts Patrick för sexuella övergrepp av sin pappa, David Melrose. Som tjugoåring tar han nästan sitt liv, djupt inne i ett drogberoende. På lördag är Edward st Aubyn här, och vi pratar om gränsen mellan fiktion och verklighet, sorg och hämnd och hur han nu har tagit makten över sin far, eftersom han nu bara är en karaktär i romanerna. Så kommer Lisa Zetterdahl hit och läser tre korta dikter ur antologin "Ingen rök utan mareld", en del av Blå Blixt serien. Nästa vecka drar litteraturfestivalen Littfest igång i Umeå, men vi tjuvstartar redan nu och pratar med Sven Teglund som satt ihop med bok med sin mor Siri Johanssons poetiska dagboksanteckningar. Boken heter "Ensamheten värst",  och är en berättelse om livets som hemmafru i ångermanländska bruksorten Husum. Alla låtar som har varit med i Lundströms hittar du på vår egen spotify-lista. Klicka HÄR för att komma till den.

"..Wäre diese ganze schwer verdauliche Story eigentlich noch größere Kunst, wenn Edward St Aubyn hier nicht seine eigene beschissene Jugend veröffentlicht, sondern sich alles, einfach so, nur ausgedacht hätte? Nach einer behüteten Jugend irgendwo in Mittel-England? .."

"..Wenn wir jetzt jedoch die in den ersten beiden Bänden entwickelten psychologischen Kriegsschauplätze dazu nehmen, auf die es den Haupthelden Patrick Melrose in den bisher 30 Jahre seines Lebens verschlagen hat, und die er klug und allzumenschlich reflektiert, bekommen wir langsam einen sehr, sehr ansprechenden Mix aus Amüsement, Grauen und Reflexion über die Human Condition, der man sich nur schwer entziehen kann.."

"..Grausam, unendlich traurig, die Welt dieses Buches - der englische Hochadel - ist kein schöner Platz. Das Beharren auf Traditionen, Herkunft, Äußerlichkeiten, das nur unter der kompletten Aufgabe der Menschlichkeit herrschen kann. Und wenn eine verzagte Hoffnung keimt, auch sie wird zerstört. .."

St. Aubyn's novel parodies the upsurge of interest in literary prizes: what do these prizes have to do with literature, and are the books that win ones we should read?

As a musical version of The Water Babies opens Simon Heffer and New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby discuss the ideas of Charles Kingsley. Matthew Sweet talks about literary satire with novelist Edward St Aubyn. Plus we mark today's anniversary of Roger Bannister's 4 minute mile by talking to documentary maker Sally McLean about her current film project which profiles the Viennese running coach Franz Stampfl.

The Testament Of Mary, Colm Tóibín's Man Booker-nominated novella, has now been adapted for the theatre - starring Fiona Shaw and directed by Deborah Warner. Fiona Shaw joins Razia to discuss the effort and concentration required for a 100-minute monologue, and the way the production mixes religious and secular aspects. Award winning revenge thriller Blue Ruin tells the story of an American man, Dwight Evans, who is seeking to kill his parents killers. As events unfold Evans, played by Macon Blair, undergoes a transformation from traumatised homeless drop-out to novice assassin. Mark Eccleston reviews. Novelist Edward St Aubyn talks about his new book Lost For Words, a satirical look at the world of literary prizes. And a new BBC and theatre production of Under Milk Wood to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth which includes contributions from Charlotte Church, Tom Jones and Michael Sheen. Razia Iqbal - Presenter Nicola Holloway - producer Image Credit: Hugo Glendinning.

An intensely dark, often comic novel about the British landed gentry and child abuse. Talking points include: the decision to write a memoir or a novel, mean-spiritedness versus generosity, inspirational dog films, and which one of us Frazier and which is Roz. Also, another installment of MATR, and whether Tom's recommendations are to be trusted.

Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part Two of two)

Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part One of 2)

At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Acclaimed British novelist Edward St. Aubyn (Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) will read and sign his new novel At Last. "Sparkling... With the wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, and the waspishness of Waugh, [St. Aubyn] wraps his fancy prose style around the self in extremis ('suffocated, dropped, born of raped as well as born to be raped"), situations more familiar to readers of Cooper or Burroughs."  --Zadie Smith, Harper's "A miraculously wrought piece of art." --Suzi Feay, The Financial Times "St. Aubyn's technique is to crystallise emotional intensity into sentences of arctic beauty, which can be caustically witty or brutal. His novels are uncommonly well controlled, and thus their impact is all the more powerful... In At Last this crystallisation and control are on glittering display... We have reached the pinnacle of a series that has plunged into darkness and risen towards light. At Last is both resounding end and hopeful beginning." -- Philip Womack, The Telegraph "Ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written... Brimming with witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse." --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, and of a series of novels about the Melrose family, the trilogy Some Hope and Mother's Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Photo of the author by Timothy Allen. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 19, 2012

This week Mariella Frostrup is in extended conversation with the novelist Edward St Aubyn. This programme does contain some disturbing content.