Podcast appearances and mentions of joanna biggs

Are we the only ones not head over heels for Nobody Wants This? Critics are unanimously (and unusually) full of five-star praise for the Netflix Rom-com which has left us a little puzzled — we discuss! In other news, Naomi Campbell has fallen foul of the Charity Commission for allegedly spending money from her charity on lavish hotel rooms and cigarettes, so we put this in the context of her many controversies and ask whether the ‘diva' label has insulated her from serious scrutiny. Finally, of course we're debriefing on Sally Rooney, having read her latest bestseller Intermezzo over the weekend. We get into her couple dynamics, how she writes men vs women, marketing hype and why some readers have called out a thematic  ‘glorification of thinness'. Huge thanks to our sponsor Yonder, the incredible lifestyle credit card packed with rewards you'll actually *want* to use, from points to use towards your bill at the trendiest restaurants and bars in the UK, to theatre and online shopping. Find out more at yonder.com/straightup Subject to eligibility. 18+ and UK Residents Only. T&C's apply. We're also absolutely over the moon to be partnered with the British Film Institute to tell you about our favourite films dropping on their incredible BFI Player every week. At the moment we're loving Evil Does Not Exist, Rare Beasts, Scrapper and The Assistant. BFI Player offers a 14-day free trial for new users PLUS our hunnies get an extra month free with the code STRAIGHTUP. Head to player.bfi.org.uk to stream now! And we're  partnered with brand new quarterly newspaper The Pass, the only publication bold enough to ignore food influencer hype and give us properly honest London restaurant reviews. ⁠Subscribe here⁠ to receive the new issue and find out what to cross off, and put on, your list. DM us your thoughts on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠@straightuppod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or email us at ⁠hello@straightuppodcast.co.uk⁠ and as ever please, please, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and a rating on Spotify, lysm! Reccs/ culture discussed  Nine Lives, Bermondsey Street London The Barbary, Notting Hill   Nobody Wants This, Netflix  The Impeccable Smoothness of Nobody Wants This, Vulture Netflix's Nobody Wants This and the Persistent Jewish Stereotype, Glamour Nobody Wants This Mean-Spirited Depiction of Jewish Women in Nobody Wants This, Time Drama GCSE, Mathilde Barker, TikTok Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story', judge finds, Guardian Tyra Banks recalls ‘evil and awful' conflict with Naomi Campbell in early career, Independent Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 'The Interview': Sally Rooney, The Daily Podcast  Glimpses of Utopia: Sally Rooney's Couples by Joanna Biggs, London Review of Books  Sally Rooney in her own words: ‘I'm fighting a cultural battle', The Times  Why Are All the Characters in Sally Rooney's Novels So Thin?, Vogue Are you cool enough to have the next Sally Rooney book? Esquire

We were absolutely thrilled to welcome Joanna Biggs, the author of our January book, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again. Sophie and I connected with this special book on so many levels and to have the opportunity to talk with Joanna brought our reading full circle. Joanna shares her inspiration for this project, why she chose the authors she featured, and her hopes for how this work might inspire other women. We also heard how the cover art was chosen and it was such a poignant part of our discussion! We were very taken with both this book and its author - we think you will be too. Join us! Find us on Instagram! Deb https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/ Sophie https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/ Generations https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

Today Sophie and I begin our conversation about our January book, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writer's Begin Again by Joanna Biggs. We both fell hard for this work of non-fiction that blends memoir, biography and criticism into an incredibly readable and relatable format. We also have some exciting news about the book's author! And of course we'll bring you up to date on our lives, from an upstate NY weekend to the Texas deep freeze. Join us! Find us on Instagram! Deb https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/ Sophie https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/ Generations https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/ Wiggins https://www.instagram.com/artboywiggins/

Joanna and Miriam discuss what her life might have looked like if she'd studied and then pursued a career in dance, as opposed to following what she considered to be a more traditional, intellectual route for her education. Along the way they talk about the intelligence of the body, gendered attitudes to both success and competition, and the romantic dalliances of Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir.Joanna Biggs is an editor at Harper's Magazine, and previously was associate editor at the London Review of Books. She has also written for the New Yorker, the FT and the Guardian, as well as appearing on BBC Radio 4. Her first book, All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, was published in 2015, and was one of the Observer's books of the year. Her new book, A Life of One's Own, is a piercing blend of memoir, criticism and biography, interspersing her own life story with an examination of how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves. It's out now and available in your local bookshop and on Bookshop.org.Make sure to subscribe to hear the rest of Season 4 – in each episode, Miriam Robinson interviews a guest about another path their life might have taken. Together, step by step, they write the stories of their unlived lives. Produced by Neil Mason Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with writer Craig Seligman about his recent book, Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag. The book follows the story of the groundbreaking drag queen, performer, and artist Doris Fish, who was born in Australia in the early 1950s as Philip Mills. Seligman initially wrote about Fish in the 1980s after they met through his boyfriend in San Francisco. He builds on his past interviews to recount Fish's life, from her early days in Sydney when she was a member of the outre drag group Silvia and the Synthetics, to her time living in San Francisco, where she moved in the late 1970s. She formed the group Sluts A-Go-Go there, and went on to become one of the city's most celebrated performers, writing and starring in the cult film Vegas in Space, and staging increasingly avant-garde and political performances until her death from AIDS in 1991. In addition to Fish's story, Seligman looks at larger attitudes toward drag, both within the queer community and outside of it, elucidating the way drag has seeped into popular culture and why it still remains a radical act today. Also, Joanna Biggs, author of A Life of One's Own, returns to recommend Still Born, a novel by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey.

Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with writer Craig Seligman about his recent book, Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag. The book follows the story of the groundbreaking drag queen, performer, and artist Doris Fish, who was born in Australia in the early 1950s as Philip Mills. Seligman initially wrote about Fish in the 1980s after they met through his boyfriend in San Francisco. He builds on his past interviews to recount Fish's life, from her early days in Sydney when she was a member of the outre drag group Silvia and the Synthetics, to her time living in San Francisco, where she moved in the late 1970s. She formed the group Sluts A-Go-Go there, and went on to become one of the city's most celebrated performers, writing and starring in the cult film Vegas in Space, and staging increasingly avant-garde and political performances until her death from AIDS in 1991. In addition to Fish's story, Seligman looks at larger attitudes toward drag, both within the queer community and outside of it, elucidating the way drag has seeped into popular culture and why it still remains a radical act today. Also, Joanna Biggs, author of A Life of One's Own, returns to recommend Still Born, a novel by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey.

The Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears reflects on the new wave of queer culture – and throwing the ultimate party (1m30s); Marina Hyde on how difficult it is being a philanthropist like Jeff Bezos (8m32s); and Joanna Biggs tries to find meaning in a post-divorce world (19m32s)

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by editor and writer Joanna Biggs, whose new book is called A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again. Joanna is an editor at Harper's Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation, the Financial Times and the Guardian. In her new book, Joanna is attempting to recalibrate her life after a divorce. She turns to literature and specifially, to nine different women writers and philosophers, ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to Sylvia Plath to Toni Morrison to Elena Ferrante. In exploring their lives and their work, Joanna finds radical ways to live and rebuild, inspired by these women who forged their own paths outside of domestic and societal expectations. With the help of their writing and their example, Joanna slowly starts to find a new sense of self. She writes “I was alone in many ways, but in my reading I had company for the big questions.” Also, Gary Indiana, author of Do Everything in the Dark, returns to recommend The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by editor and writer Joanna Biggs, whose new book is called A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again. Joanna is an editor at Harper's Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation, the Financial Times and the Guardian. In her new book, Joanna is attempting to recalibrate her life after a divorce. She turns to literature and specifially, to nine different women writers and philosophers, ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to Sylvia Plath to Toni Morrison to Elena Ferrante. In exploring their lives and their work, Joanna finds radical ways to live and rebuild, inspired by these women who forged their own paths outside of domestic and societal expectations. With the help of their writing and their example, Joanna slowly starts to find a new sense of self. She writes “I was alone in many ways, but in my reading I had company for the big questions.” Also, Gary Indiana, author of Do Everything in the Dark, returns to recommend The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic.

In this episode Gwyn and Paul explore the graphic novel ‘The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes' by Neil Gaiman and its recent Netflix adaptation. If you feel inspired to explore the world of graphic novels and comics why not have a look at the excellent Page 45 bookshop site https://page45.com/ For most of the books we discuss in this episode go to the bookshelf in our bookshop here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/neil-gaiman-s-the-sandman-bookylicious-series-2-episode-9   Gwyn also mentions Joanna Biggs book ‘A Life of One's Own' which has only just been published, you can read an extract here https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/04/03/on-mary-wollstonecraft/ Plus there is a unofficial playlist on Spotify for the Sandman series https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1WiEftzChg34LESRtnJehr?si=49b8ca8c968b464d

Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry, for the eighth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1. They consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath's work, situating her as a transatlantic, expressionist poet of the Cold War, and drawing on the LRB archive to talk about her funniness, ruthlessness, and uninhibited willingness to go anywhere to win the argument.This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full and to our other Close Readings series, sign up:Directly in Apple Podcasts here: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps here: lrb.me/closereadingsSeamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English Literature at University College London.This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2019, and is now available in full exclusively for Close Readings subscribers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest host Bill Ackerman invites writer Gianna D'Emilio to discuss the work of Mia Hansen-Løve, the acclaimed writer/director of films like THINGS TO COME, BERGMAN ISLAND, EDEN and GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE. In anticipation of her latest effort, ONE FINE MORNING, they take a close look at her first seven features. Read “Girlhood, Postfeminism and Contemporary Female Art-House Authorship: The “Nameless Trilogies” of Sofia Coppola and Mia Hansen-Løve” by Fiona Handyside https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue10/HTML/ArticleHandyside.html Read Mia Hansen-Løve in conversation with Elena Lazic on MAYA: https://elenalazic.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/my-films-are-portraits-i-try-to-make-my-characters-live-mia-hansen-love-on-maya/ Read “All Is Forgiven” by James King: https://animusmagazine.com/2021/11/26/all-is-forgiven/ Read “In Praise Of Mia Hansen-Løve's ‘Things To Come'” by Joanna Biggs: https://www.anothergaze.com/praise-mia-hansen-loves-things-come/ Read “The Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve Candour and Vulnerability” by Kate Ince: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-cinema-of-mia-hansen-love.html Buy a Mia Hansen-Løve T-shirt: https://www.girlsontopstees.com/shop/mia-hansen-lve-t-shirt Watch the THINGS TO COME Press Conference with Isabelle Huppert & Mia Hansen-Løve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRO-DR-9V-c

Toril Moi talks to Joanna Biggs about the French philosopher Simone Weil, whose short and uncompromising life became a workshop for her revolutionary ideas about labour, human suffering and the power of paying attention.Read Toril Moi on Simone Weil in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/weilpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny Turner talks to Joanna Biggs about the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement, the loneliness of feminist work, and the seemingly unavoidable question: How do you think your life compares to your mother’s?Find Jenny Turner’s piece and other related pieces on the episode page for this podcast: https://lrb.me/jennyturnerpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Susan Pedersen talks to Joanna Biggs about Shelagh Delaney and her landmark 1958 play, A Taste of Honey.Read Susan Pedersen on Shelagh Delaney in the LRB: https://lrb.me/delaneypodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20bThe first two clips in this episode are from the 1961 film, the third clip is from The White Bus (1967) directed by Lindsay Anderson, and the fourth clip is from a 1959 interview with Delaney for ITN. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mary Wellesley talks to Joanna Biggs about islands, blessed and not so blessed, from Homer to the Fyre Festival.Read more by Mary Wellesley in the LRB:On Blessed IslesOn anchoritesOn Sir Gawain and the Green KnightSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir.Further reading on Beauvoir in the LRB:Joanna Biggs: https://lrb.me/biggsdebeauvoirpodMichael Rogin: https://lrb.me/rogindebeauvoirpodToril Moi: https://lrb.me/torilmoipodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Contis discusses ‘Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper’, the way women photographers are remembered and forgotten and how one artist encounters another in the world and in the archive, with Joanna Biggs, assistant editor at the LRB. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley talk to Joanna Biggs, one of the LRB's editors, about fictional representations of women’s everyday lives.Read more in the LRB from:Tessa HadleyNell DunnJoanna Biggs See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley discuss fictional representations of women’s everyday lives with the LRB’s Joanna Biggs, as part of a series of events celebration the LRB's 40th anniversary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the LRB, and Rosemary Hill join Joanna Biggs and Tom Crewe to talk about the state of our clothes. Anne Hollander once wrote in the LRB that 'clothes exist to remind the self of the body, and to create a worldly body for each person', and our guests use this as a starting point to discuss how we try to use clothes to reveal and conceal things about ourselves.Mentioned in this episode:Anne Hollander on Kafka's clothes: https://lrb.me/annehdresspodAngela Carter on the latest thing: https://lrb.me/acarterdresspodRosemary Hill on 'Frock Consciousness': https://lrb.me/rhilldresspodFind collections, back issues, covers and other LRB merchandise on the LRB Store: https://lrb.me/storepodSign up to our newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Full Surrogacy Now (Verso), Sophie Lewis takes on the surrogacy industry – worth over one billion dollars a year in the USA alone, and famously exploitative – with a unique and explosive argument: we need more surrogacy, not less! Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and centre, that we should ‘overthrow, in short, the notion of the “family”’. Donna Haraway has described the book as ‘the serious radical cry for full gestational justice I long for.’ Lewis was in conversation with Joanna Biggs, assistant editor at the LRB and author of All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

William Davies and Lorna Finlayson join Joanna Biggs and Tom Crewe to discuss the state of the nation - the UK - in the age of Brexit. Spoiler: there are no predictions here! Instead, they talk about the trouble they have identifying with their own side, how the issue of Europe came to represent the UK's growing internal divisions, and whether we should be excited or terrified by seeing our democratic system put through its paces. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts Miranda York and Anna Sulan Masing return to the first Voices At The Table event at LASSCO, an atmospheric antique and salvage warehouse in Bermondsey, London. This episode includes readings from the live event by Observer Food Monthly editor Allan Jenkins, co-founder of Silver Press and London Review of Books editor Joanna Biggs, and deviser and performer Charles Adrian, while Miranda and Anna talk about creative collaborations, culinary icons, secret pleasures and the importance of confronting the darker side of food. Voices At The Table is a fortnightly food podcast that brings together an eclectic mix of voices across the literary, performance and food worlds. An evolution of the popular Voices At The Table event series, it aims to look at food from a fresh perspective. Follow @__atthetable__ on Instagram and twitter, or head to atthetable.co.uk to find out more.

Mark Ford, Seamus Perry and Joanna Biggs consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating her as a transatlantic, expressionist poet of the Cold War.You can find a reading list of pieces mentioned in this episode here: https://lrb.me/plathpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patricia Lockwood and John Lanchester join hosts Joanna Biggs and Tom Crewe to assess the state of the internet, including podcasts, porn, Twitter, Facebook and their first memories of being online. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Det talas mycket om basinkomst eller medborgarlön i dessa dagar. Och kanske måste hela begreppet "arbete" omdefinieras? Tänk bort lön och produktionskrav, föreslår Elin Grelsson Almestad. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. På 1930-talet förutspådde ekonomen John Maynard Keynes att automatisering skulle leda till att vi vid seklets slut bara skulle behöva arbeta 15 timmar i veckan. I stället arbetar vi mer än någonsin. Arbete, arbetslöshet och vikten av att lönearbeta har dominerat politik och samhälle i flera decennier. I en artikel i The Guardian från början av 2018 konstaterar journalisten och historikern Andy Beckett att arbetet dominerar dagens värld. För de flesta människor är det omöjligt att föreställa sig ett samhälle utan arbete och jobben genomsyrar vår vardag och våra liv. vad kommer arbete att vara i en värld där hälften av dagens sysslor blivit obsoleta? Många författare och skribenter har de senaste decennierna diskuterat arbetets roll i det moderna samhället. I Storbritannien kom journalisten Joanna Biggs 2016 ut med boken All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work. Här intervjuas ett stort antal människor om deras arbeten, från förskolelärare till politiker. Biggs konstaterar att arbete är det som ger våra liv mening när religion, partipolitik och samhälle faller bort. I Sverige har sociologen Roland Paulsen i böckerna Arbetssamhället hur arbetet överlevde teknologin och Vi bara lyder nagelfarit och kritiskt diskuterat ett samhälle där arbetet blivit ett självändamål och inte ens arbetsförmedlarna tror på vad de gör längre. Många teoretiker har skrivit om arbetets dominerande roll i dagens samhälle, men också hur det ofrånkomligen kommer att förändras. För inom 20 år kommer hälften av de svenska jobben vara automatiserade, konstaterade Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning i en rapport 2014. Automatiseringen berör alla branscher, såväl vård- som byggsektorn. I januari 2017 visade konsultbolaget McKinsey på liknande siffror globalt. Tekniken finns redan och har redan alltmer introducerats inom olika sektorer. Det väcker frågor om hur vi ska organisera ett samhälle som idag är helt ekonomiskt och materiellt kopplat till lönearbetet. Basinkomst, även kallad medborgarlön, det vill säga en låg men regelbundet utbetalad summa från staten till samtliga medborgare utan krav på motprestation är ett vanligt förslag. Det har lyfts fram av en progressiv vänster, såväl som ledande ekonomer och forskare vid Chalmers. Pilotprojekt förekommer i bland annat Finland, där 2000 personer får basinkomst under en period för att studera hur det påverkar sysselsättning. Lönearbete i den moderna industrin innebär, för Weil, att 'varje människa lever i ständig hets, pådriven av främmande viljor och samtidigt fryser själen, våndas i sin övergivenhet'. Men bortsett från det ekonomiska och materiella; vad kommer arbete att vara i en värld där hälften av dagens sysslor blivit obsoleta? Hur ska vi ställa om från en kultur där arbete genomsyrar våra liv och också våra identiteter, där arbete som Andy Beckett uttrycker det dominerar våra samhällen?  Hur skulle den omställningen kunna se ut? Kanske är svaret att återupptäcka och återerövra definitionen av arbetet som frikopplad från lön och produktion. I poeten David Väyrynens debutbok Marken från 2017 återfinns något så omodernt och samtidigt idag radikalt som arbete för människans och det gemensammas skull. Som i dikten Samfälligheten: Jag arbetar, emedan jag genom arbetet förstår att jag utför någonting meningsfullt och samtidigt erkänner att människan är ett samarbetande djur I arbetet blir vi upptagna i den gemenskap som syftar till att vara till nytta för alla. Eller i dikten Den gamla byfinska bondepraktikan där det konstateras att: Det ska man inte glömma, att det är ju också jobb och alltid får man nåt, kanske bättre än lön, bara sitta hos nån gamling och språka över kaffe. Det är det som är frihet, det är så man får tänka.   Filosofen och mystikern Simone Weil formulerade någonting liknande när hon, efter att under en period ha arbetat i fabrik, konstaterade att fabriksarbete ligger nära gräslighetens yttersta gräns. Lönearbete i den moderna industrin innebär, för Weil, att varje människa lever i ständig hets, pådriven av främmande viljor och samtidigt fryser själen, våndas i sin övergivenhet. Mot detta ställer hon det arbete som är sprunget ur människans vilja att arbeta och genom arbetet bli medveten om sig själv, världen och naturen. Hon gör heller ingen hierarkisk uppdelning mellan det intellektuella arbetet och kroppsarbetet. Precis som konsten och vetenskapen är kroppsarbete en viss art av kontakt med verkligheten, sanningen, skönheten och den eviga visdomen, slår Weil fast. En positiv syn på arbetet, som går att spåra tillbaka till bland andra Martin Luther, som menade att det är i arbetet som människan förverkligar sig själv och sina djupaste funktioner som människa; att vara till hjälp för andra och till skapelsen. Dagens lönearbeten ligger ofta långt bort ifrån den definitionen. Men kanske är det inte arbetsbegreppet som ska försvinna ur våra relationer utan löner och produktionskrav som ska sluta vara en självklar del av arbetet? Redan idag finns det däremot en uppsjö av arbeten, som ändå inte riktigt räknas som arbete eftersom de varken bidrar till landets BNP eller det egna ekonomiska välståndet. Ideellt arbete och föreningsliv, hemarbete och inte minst den omsorg och vård av närstående, det vill säga det emotionella arbete som många feminister lyft fram som kvinnligt kodade oavlönade sysslor. Att projektleda familjens vardag, lyssna på hur någon mår och vårda sina vänskapsrelationer. Om vi i definitionen av arbete i stället för lön och produktivitet fokuserade på det vi gör som är till gagn för andra människor, samhället och naturen skulle ett helt nytt arbetsliv öppna sig. Idag finns en ibland uttryckt skepsis mot begrepp som arbeta på relationen, eftersom det konnoterar lönearbetet och dess ofta tydligt uppsatta mål. Men kanske är det inte arbetsbegreppet som ska försvinna ur våra relationer utan löner och produktionskrav som ska sluta vara en självklar del av arbetet? Även det tankearbete och den fria konstutövning som idag indelas i skarpa linjer mellan hobbyverksamhet och arbete som ger ekonomisk avkastning skulle luckras upp. Att skriva, måla, läsa och tänka är att arbeta, oavsett om det resulterar i en konstutställning, romansvit, OBS-essä eller inte. Kritiker till basinkomst menar att lönen krävs som incitament för att människor inte ska bli lata eller välja bort kollektiv samvaro. Men om mycket av det som idag pressas in i våra få timmar av fritid; hushållsarbete, föreningsverksamhet, omsorg om familj och vänner, ideella åtaganden och liknande, räknades in i definitionen av arbete trots bristen på ekonomiska incitament skulle väldigt få uppfattas som lata eller asociala. De allra flesta skulle i stället ha tid och möjlighet att fördjupa det arbete som det innebär att, som Väyrynens dikt uttrycker det, språka med en gamling eller för den delen städa och bygga om i sitt eget hem. Vi bör ta Simone Weil på orden och se att det i det arbete som vi själva valt och definierat finns meningsfullhet, utveckling, värme och gemenskap. Elin Grelsson Almestad, författare och skribent   Källor: Andy Beckett: Post work the radical ideal of a world without jobs. The Guardian, 2018-01-19 Joanna Biggs: All Day Long. Britain at work. Serpents Tail, 2015. Peter Fleming: The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation. Pluto Press, 2017 David Graeber: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant. Strike Magazine, nr 3 2013 Roland Paulsen: Arbetssamhället hur arbetet överlevde teknologin. Gleerups, 2010. Roland Paulsen: Vi bara lyder: en berättelse om Arbetsförmedlingen. Atlas förlag, 2015. Guy Standing: En färdplan för prekariatet. Daidalos, 2014. David Väyrynen: Marken. Teg Publishing, 2017. Simone Weil: Personen och det heliga. Artos, 1994. Vartannat jobb automatiseras inom 20 år utmaningar för Sverige. Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, 2014 A future that works: automation, emplyment and productivity. McKinsey Global Institute, 2017

On the publication of the first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short fiction,The Debutante and Other Stories (Silver Press) and the republication of her memoir Down Below in this centenary year of her birth, cultural critic Marina Warner and novelist Chloe Aridjis discussed Carrington's absurd, funny and provocative fiction and paintings. Carrington first started to paint and draw among Surrealists in Paris in the 1930s, escaped the war via New York to Mexico City where she met Diego Riviera, Frida Kahlo and Octavio Paz and became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement. Warner, who came to know Carrington in the 1980s in New York, and Aridjis, Carrington's friend from Mexico City, discussed the life and legacy of a singular artist and writer with Silver Press publishers Joanna Biggs and Alice Spawls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At its best work can provide more than an income but meaning, purpose and community. In the final episode in our Work Shift series Matthew Taylor explores the characteristics of Good Work, how this compares with peoples’ working lives today and whether we could make all work Good Work in the 21st century. He’s joined by: the sociologist Richard Sennett, author of ‘The Craftsman’ (2008), Joanna Biggs, editor at the London Review of Books and author of ‘All Day Long: a portrait of Britain at work’ (2015). And Rohan Silva, ex-Government advisor and co-founder of the co-working space Second Home. Produced by Michael Umney and Ben Irvine.

Gwendoline Riley was at the bookshop to talk about her new novel, First Love, an exploration of marriage as battleground. Anne Enright described her previous novel, Opposed Positions, as ‘more than up to the job of writing the wasted hinterlands of the human heart’; Stuart Kelly called it ‘a continual joy’. Riley was in conversation with Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Penguin 2012); the discussion was chaired by Joanna Biggs, author of All Day Long (Profile 2015) and editor at the London Review of Books. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Elena Ferrante's translator, Ann Goldstein, was joined by Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark to discuss the appeal and mystery of the enigmatic Italian author. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's Little Atoms Podcast, Joanna Biggs on her book All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, and Stevan Alcock on his novel Blood Relatives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.