Podcasts about Kirsty Logan

Bloody Book Club, our monthly series of interviews with horror authors, welcomes Kirsty Logan, to talk about her new short story collection: No & Other Love Stories. Kirsty Logan is a Scottish writer of novels and short stories. She is the author of Now She is Witch, a medieval witch revenge quest, Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. Kirsty was also previously a guest on the podcast to talk about SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and HANNIBAL series. No & Other Love Stories is out now. ***Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. Artwork by Ewa FerdynusMusic: "Time to Leave" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.***The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

The title speaks volumes this week. It's a mission statement.   Kirsty Logan is the master of certain kind of edgy, on-the-margins fiction, Queer in every meaning of the word. She can be witchy and folkloric, or contemporary and cutting edge – and all of that range is showcased in her new collection, No & Other Love Stories.   We talk about female desire and monstrous fantasy, formal experimentation and the personal logic of stories…and some reassuringly unsettling focus on the erotics of human flesh and menstruation.   Don't say we shy away here at Talking Scared.   Enjoy!   Other books mentioned:   Things We Say in the Dark (2019), by Kirsty Logan The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir (2023), by Kirsty Logan “Skeleton,” by Ray Bradbury (1945), by Ray Bradbury Carrion Crow (2025), by Heather Parry “Tiptoe,” in Not a Speck of Light (2024), by Laird Barron   Support Talking Scared on Patreon   Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch   Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Docherty has entertained audiences in eight series of BBC Scotland's mockumentary police show Scot Squad, as Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson. He returns to our screens in new spin-off The Chief. Writer Kirsty Logan has written on witches, mermaids, and motherhood. Her latest collection of dark tales of love and desire is No & Other Love Stories.Comedian Larry Dean is bringing his acclaimed stand up show Dodger on tour. It explores identity, his grandmother's dementia diagnosis, and a love of Elvis Presley.After big 40th anniversary celebrations last year, Pat and Greg Kane - AKA pop duo Hue and Cry - are set for a year of touring. They share a song fit for Valentine's Day weekend. Cellist Su-a Lee performs a track from her solo album Dialogues which celebrates decades of folk music friendships. She's joined by composer and pianist James Ross.

Recorded on location at the Boswell Book Festival, this week Kirsty Logan tells us about 'The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir', journalist and author Xinran Xue uncovers 'The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China', Nigel Toon tells us 'How AI thinks' and we end with Vivian French with 'Bibi and the Box of Fairy Tales!' All that plus some brand new audiobooks that are also in the Talking Books library.

Við fáum sendingu frá Feneyjum í þættinum. Starfsnemar í listfræði, myndlist og sýningastjórnun við Listaháskóla Íslands og Háskóla Íslands munu á næstu vikum flytja stutt erindi um sýningar Feneyjartvíæringsins. Í pistli dagsins tekur Auður Mist, oftast kölluð Auja Mist, myndlistakona frá Reykjavík, til máls og segir meðal annars frá því hvernig jaðarsettir hópar í myndlist hafa nýtt dulspeki sem sameiningartákn Þorleifur Sigurðsson verður einnig með í þættinum en hann hefur verið að skoða tónlistarstefnur í ólíkum heimshornum sem eiga það sameiginlegt að hafa haft gríðarleg menningarleg áhrif. Að þessu sinni mun hann segja frá Cancion Ranchera sem er mexíkósk þjóðlagahefð og er eitt helsta menningareinkenni Mexíkó. IceCon-furðusagnahátíðin hefur göngu sína í fjórða sinn núna um helgina. Hugtakið furðusögur nær yfir fantasíur, vísindaskáldskap og hrollvekjur og allt þar á milli. Heiðursgestir í ár eru rithöfundarnir Emil Hjörvar Petersen, sem er einn stofnenda hátíðarinnar, Hugo-verðlaunahafinn John Scalzi og Lambda-verðlaunahafinn Kirsty Logan. Hátíðin hefst nú um helgina og verða hinir ýmsu viðburðir á dagskrá í Veröld Húsi Vigdísar. Anna María Björnsdóttir ræðir við þá Emil Hjörvar Petersen og Júlíus Árnason Kaaber, einn skipuleggjenda hátíðarinnar í ár í þættinum.

Author Kirsty Logan joins me for the biggest monster of them, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. We discuss the TV series based on the work of Thomas Harris, Hannibal (2013-2015). We discuss the entire series in detail. Join our Patreon to hear us talk about the Thomas Harris books.  Discover what films we're covering next on our Letterboxd.  Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. ***Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.***The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Writer and novelist Kirsty Logan joins me for the biggest monster of them, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. We discuss The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in depth, plus briefly cover the Hannibal Lecter Cinematic Universe: Manhunter (1986), Hannibal (2001), Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007). Discover what films we're covering next on our Letterboxd.Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. ***Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.***The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

The ILFD podcast is back! With Halloween just around the corner, let's listen back to authors Kirsty Logan & Anya Bergman talking all things witches with moderator Sarah Maria Griffin. Part of the 2023 edition of ILFD. ___ How far would you go for justice? In two powerful additions to the witchlit canon, Kirsty Logan and Anya Bergman dig into the painful realities of life in the shadow of the witch trials. The past few years has seen a blossoming of witch stories, and it's not difficult to see why this period in European history has proven such a rich vein. These stories pitch characters on the fringes of society – through poverty, queerness or plain weirdness – against social forces beyond their control, and the extraordinary measures they must take for their freedom. Kirsty Logan has become a leading light in Scotland's weird gothic resurgence, and her third novel, Now She is Witch, follows unlikely allies Lux and Else on the path of vengeance for the execution of Lux's mother. In Bergman's debut novel, The Witches of Vardø, the teenage Ingeborg still has hopes of rescuing her mother from an island fortress, but like Lux and Else, she must also learn painful lessons about the needs of the many, and her personal quest for justice. ___ Kirsty Logan is a fiction writer, book reviewer, freelance editor and writing mentor based in Glasgow. She is currently working on a short musical, a short story collection, and a very long novel. Anya Bergman is resident in Ireland, is currently undertaking a PhD by Published Works at Edinburgh Napier University, and working on her next novel. ___ ‘Anya Bergman summons a historic witch trial with breathtaking detail and immediacy' ― Hannah Kent (Burial Rites; Devotion) 'Kirsty Logan is one of the darkest and most playful of writers working right now' ― Stylist, *Books to Look Out For 2023* ___ Presented with support from Scottish Books International International Literature Festival Dublin is a Dublin City Council Initiative kindly supported by the Arts Council. Find out more at ilfdublin.com

A podcaster investigates a presumed lost horror film. Written and performed by Kirsty Logan.EERIE is an anthology audio series of original horror stories.Producer and Host: Anna BogutskayaEditor: Mike MuncerOriginal Music: Mitch BainArtwork: Mike Lee Graham.Co-producer for Brock Media: Rohina Cameron-PereraExecutive Producers: Sarah Brocklehurst and Nicole DavisFollow @WeAreBrockMedia on Twitter and Instagram for updates on EERIE, NEVER TOLD and other Brock Media podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming soon... a new horror podcast I've created, produced and hosted. EERIE is an 8-episode anthology audio series of original horror stories from some of the most exciting contemporary voices in horror, pulled from literature, film & TV. Brand new original stories commissioned from authors Julia Armfield, Kirsty Logan and Alison Rumfitt, theatremaker Willy Hudson, actors Marli Siu and Jemma Moore, filmmaker Paris Zarcilla, and even a twisted little story from me. Each story brings a different flavour of scary, from the haunting to the grotesque, to suit different sensibilities and fright thresholds. Every listener will find something that truly creeps them out. The first episode will be released Monday 2nd October, with new episodes released twice weekly in the lead up to Halloween. Episodes will be available across all podcast platforms. Listen, subscribe and rate wherever you get your scary stories: https://pod.link/1707870813 

Singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter Kathryn Williams is proud to release her new album ‘Night Drives'. The collection explores a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation, particular emphasis on the strings and production from Ed Harcourt. It's out via One Little Independent Records.   Journeying from leftfield contemporary pop to soft acoustics, Kathryn Williams uses her latest LP to explore a variety of fresh ideas driven, in part, by a host of collaborators. Kirsty Logan, Oystein Greni, Romeo Stodart, Matt Deighton, Simon Edwards, Yvette Williams, Neill Maccoll, Andy Bruce, Ida Wenoe, Joel Sarakula, Emily Barker and John Alder all have credits on various tracks across ‘Night Drives'. Kathryn explains “I've been releasing music for 24 years now. That fact blows me away, and things have changed so much over those years. The biggest change has been my love of co-writing and writing for other artists. This began when I first went on a writing retreat with Chris Difford forming close friendships and working relationships that are represented here”.   Her first official album since ‘Hypoxia' in 2015, ‘Night Drives' opens with some of Kathryn's most immediately electronic tracks to date, the nihilistic ‘Human', big ballad ‘Answer In The Dark' with all it's bold, layered production, and the dynamic, infectious ‘Radioactive'. Elsewhere on the likes of ‘Moon Karaoke', ‘Magnets' and ‘The Brightest', a more cinematic sound is explored; slowly unravelling stories backed by delicate acoustics and elated, emotive string pieces. ‘Put The Needle On The Record' and joint closers ‘Starry Heavens' and ‘I Am Rich In All That I've Lost' are relaxed and fall into the more traditional world of folk inspired melancholia. Kathryn's inimitable charm colours the whole album with emotion and affection – occasionally brooding, always likable.   Discussing some of the themes explored she says “Some of it is questioning who we are, realising that being human is about flaws, humility, and the consequences of how we react to others. It can be about the longevity of a long-term relationship, how to keep the fire burning and to celebrate that. So many love songs are about the first moments, but this is about enduring love. The simple things that fill a day and how our dreams and wants are so separate to the daily grind. The final track is a philosophical musing on loss and gain in life. How by living a long life we will lose so much, but that in itself is riches”.

Kirsty Logan is a novelist and short story writer. She's the author of Now She is Witch, Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. To mark the publication of her new book, The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir, she talks with Lucy Scholes about writing like no one is reading, pregnancy journeys, disobedient bodies, the gift of sperm donation, and breaking the rules of memoir writing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what's to come, thoughts on where we're at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months. Non fiction  A People's Green New Deal by Max Ajl https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-green-new-deal-max-ajl/5731783?ean=9780745341750Building Tomorrow by Paddy Le Fluffy https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Building-Tomorrow-by-Paddy-Le-Flufy/9781739345204Spinning Out By Charlie Herzog Young https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Spinning-Out-by-Charlie-Hertzog-Young/9781804440315Saying No to a Farm Free Future by Chris Smaje https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/saying-no-to-a-farm-free-future-the-case-for-an-ecological-food-system-and-against-manufactured-foods-chris-smaje/7448082?ean=9781915294166Two Lights by James Roberts https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/two-lights-james-roberts/7366651?ean=9781912836178Post-Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in a time of collapse by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Post-Capitalist-Philanthropy-by-Alnoor-Ladha-Lynn-Murphy/9798986531007 Fiction Black Water Sister by Zen Cho https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/black-water-sister-zen-cho/6464196?ean=9781509800018The Grief Nurse – Angie Spoto https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-grief-nurse-angie-spoto/7230526?ean=9781914518171Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/now-she-is-witch-a-witch-story-unlike-any-other-from-the-author-of-the-gracekeepers-kirsty-logan/7387771?ean=9781529116113Habitat Man by DA Baden https://www.dabaden.com/habitat-man/The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-First-Fifteen-Lives-of-Harry-August-by-Claire-North/9780356502588Frankie Boyle, Meantime https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/meantime-frankie-boyle/6521254?ean=9781399801157Podcasts Bankless Episode w Eliezer Yudkowsky https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bankless/id1499409058?i=1000600575387Planet Critical – particularly the episode w Alastair Campbell https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/planet-critical/id1545009586?i=1000615243292David Bollier's Frontiers of Commoning, particularly the episode with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005?i=1000615201925Your Undivided Attention https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/your-undivided-attention/id1460030305The Great Simplification https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333

In the first episode of our new series, authors Kirsty Logan and Laura Purcell go head to head in a war of the words... They discuss their new novels - 'Now She Is Witch' and 'The Whispering Muse' - writing processes and they give us some brilliant book recommendations. THE BOOK OFF 'Moominland Midwinter' by Tove Jansson VS 'The Circus Of Wonders' by Elizabeth Macneal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the last three weeks Front Row has broadcast a poem by each of the 10 writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. The winner was announced last night: Anthony Joseph, for his collection Sonnets for Albert. Anthony talks to Samira Ahmed about his sequence of sonnets exploring his relationship with his often absent father, winning the prize and the attraction of the sonnet form. Research from the film charity Birds Eye View shows that the number of female made films released in UK cinemas fell by 6% last year. The charity's director Melanie Iredale and film director Sally El Hosaini discuss why women are failing to progress in the UK film industry. Books about witches and witchcraft are increasingly popular, with several new novels published this year. Authors Emilia Hart, Kirsty Logan and Anya Bergman, who have all written about witches, explain why this subject matter provided such a rich source of inspiration. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner Image: Antony Julius, picture credit: Adrian Pope

For this episode, we speak to the wonderful Kirsty Logan. Kirsty is completely devoted to books: she is the award-winning author of several novels, including The Gloaming and The Gracekeepers, and short story collections including A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. She recently wrote the Audible Original The Sound at the End, an Arctic ghost story. She's also a book reviewer, editor and mentor. Kirsty's new novel, Now She is Witch, came out this month. It is a medieval witch revenge story unlike any other. We discuss the book as well as aspects of craft, including character, theme, structure, research, routine and inspiration. We talk about how to build complex characters within fairy tales, the difference between historical fiction and Medievalism and how witch stories reflect our feelings of being under threat in our world. We talk about identity, revenge and research beyond the internet. Kirsty also starts our conversation with a reading - a poem she wrote during a writing residency.

Heather Parry tells Janice about novel Orpheus Builds a Girl & Book Week Scotland event

A crew that's never met, an android that dyes his hair and someone who just really loves rocks: your hosts Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry discuss (the first half of) 2012 Alien sort-of-prequel Prometheus! To listen, become a patreon at patreon.com/teenagescreampodcast

Author and podcast host Chloe Timms, author of THE SEAWOMEN.Chloe chats about:how there is always more to learn about writinghow reading can support your writingthe fear of not having an 'idea'learning what to focus on & what is out of your control about your book being publishedsetting up a writing podcastmentoring unpublished writersmaking events accessible with the movement #keepeventshybridGuest: Chloe Timms Twitter: @clotimms IG: @clotimms Books: The Seawomen by Chloe Timms Podcast: Confessions of a Debut NovelistHost: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer &This Family by Kate SawyerChloe's recommendations: A book for fans of The Seawomen: The Grace Keepers by Kirsty Logan &/or The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla A book Chloe has always loved: Tin Man by Sarah Winman A book coming soon or recently released that Chloe recommends: Yellow Face by RF Kuang (publishing 2023) Other books/things that came up during our chat: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh, Still Life by Sarah Winman, Book Lovers by Emily Henry #KeepFestivalsHybrid Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCHTo receive transcripts and news from Kate to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.

Kirsty Logan .Kirsty is a Scottish novelist, poet, performer, literary editor, mentor, book reviewer. She's presented shows on BBC Radio 4. Her novels have been described as dark fairy tales and magic realism akin to Angela Carter and Emma Donaghue.In this episode kirsty tells the horrors of an air B and B stay and why her dream is a Premier Inn now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

大家好，这一期三位主播一起聊一聊关于夏天的书，推荐的夏天读物，顺带提了一句影视剧，最后安利了两瓶酒。大家有什么值得推荐的夏季读物，夏季酒水吗？欢迎给我们留言。 时间节点： 00:58 夏天喜欢读什么书 03:16 限定一个夏季的恋情 22:36 书名里有夏天或设定在夏天的书 51:26 夏季影视剧和酒 提到的书： Summer Crossing, Truman Capote 《恋恋笔记本》尼古拉斯·斯帕克思 《某种微笑》萨冈（《你好忧愁》，《狂乱》） 《觉醒》凯特肖邦 《潮骚》三岛由纪夫 《午夜曳航》三岛由纪夫 《夏日终曲》安德烈·艾席蒙 《情人》杜拉斯 The Summer Book, Tove Jansson（《姆明系列》） The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid 《仲夏夜之梦》莎士比亚（《牡丹亭》） The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, Lana Del Rey 《八月的星期天》帕特里克·莫迪亚诺（《青春咖啡馆》） 《氯的滋味》巴斯蒂安·维韦斯 Pool, Ji-Hyeon Lee 漫画《萤火之森》绿川幸 《夏天，烟火和我的尸体》乙一 《春宵苦短，少女前進吧》森見登美彥 《火花》又吉直树 The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan 《你的夏天还好吗》《外面是夏天》金爱烂 《伯纳黛特，你要去哪》玛利亚·森普尔 Swimming Home, Deborah Levy All the Beautiful Lies, Peter Swanson 漫画《海兽之子》（《小森林》《南瓜與我的野放生活》）五十岚大介 电影： 《Call me by your name》 《小森林》 《海街日记》是枝裕和 《奇迹》是枝裕和 《La La Land》（《舞出我人生》《情迷Havana》） 《In The Heights》 《夏日大作战》 《牯岭街少年杀人事件》 《蓝色大门》 《青梅竹马》杨德昌 《鲨滩》 《天才雷普利》 《弗莱骗局》 《地表最烂：FYRE豪华音乐节》 日剧： 《西瓜》 《火花》 《圈套》系列 《金田一少年事件薄》 酒： Nordes Gin Suntory Roku Gin ----- 收听和订阅渠道： 墙内：小宇宙App，喜马拉雅，网易云“普通-读者” 墙外： Apple Podcast, Anchor，Spotify，Pocket Casts，Google Podcast，Breaker， Radiopublic 电邮：commonreader@protonmail.com 微博： 普通读者播客 欢迎关注播客豆瓣： https://www.douban.com/people/commonreaders/ 片头音乐credit： Flipper's Guitar - 恋とマシンガン- Young, Alive, in Love - 片尾音乐credit： Bensound-JAZZY FRENCHY

This is the last episode of series 1! Keep an eye/ear out for series 2 which starts on Tuesday 9th Feb 2021.In this episode find out why In Search of Black History, a podcast by Bonnie Greer, should be on your list, and we follow this with a review of the deeply tragic novel Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams.Two Audible editors are back to tell you all about HAG - a multi-author short story anthology based on UK and Ireland folk stories, and a devastating immigration fiction novel, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.We round off with Jenny Eclair proudly proclaiming that she can and will do whatever she sets her heart and mind too, before turning the mic around to you. Here's the full list of reviews/recommendations:Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Never-Split-the-Difference-Audiobook/1473575346In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer by Bonnie Greer https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/In-Search-of-Black-History-with-Bonnie-Greer-Audiobook/B08259D1PXQueenie by Candice Carty-Williams https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Queenie-Audiobook/1409180093Hag by Daisy Johnson, Eimear McBride, Liv Little, Kirsty Logan, Naomi Booth, Emma Glass, Natasha Carthew, Mahsuda Snaith and Tom Curry https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Hag-Audiobook/B07V3DWB3FAmerican Dirt by Jeanine Cummins https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/American-Dirt-Audiobook/1472261372Audible Sessions with Jenny Eclair https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Jenny-Eclair-Audiobook/B07VWL5MYBInheritance by Jenny Eclair https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Inheritance-Audiobook/0751576239The Confession by Jessie Burton https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Confession-Audiobook/1509886176 You can email us your audio recommendations at yhihf@audible.co.uk – we love hearing your voice notes and reading what you have to say. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The devil's daughter features in a new novel from Jenni Fagan; Salena Godden's debut novel imagines Mrs Death. To discuss conjuring fear, they join Shahidha Bari alongside a pair of historians - Tabitha Stanmore, who researches magic from early modern royal courts to village life, and Daniel Ogden, who has looked at werewolf tales in ancient Greece and Rome. Jenni Fagan's latest novel is called Luckenbooth, and her first book, The Panopticon, has been filmed. Fagan was listed by Granta as one of the 2013 Granta Best of Young British Novelists. There is more information about her drama and poetry collection, There’s A Witch In The Word Machine, on her website - https://jennifagan.com/ Salena Godden's novel is Mrs Death Misses Death, published on 28 January 2021, and she's been made a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. You can find more about her poetry and her radio show, Roaring 20s, on her website - http://www.salenagodden.co.uk/ Tabitha Stanmore is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, working on witchcraft. Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His book is called The Werewolf In The Ancient World. You might be interested in other episodes looking at witchcraft: Author Marie Dariessecq - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qkl The relevance of magic in the contemporary world - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kvss Historians Marina Warner and Susannah Lipscomb look at Witchfinding - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kckxk Novelists Zoe Gilbert, Madeline Miller and Kirsty Logan compare notes on Charms - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1q0xc Producer: Emma Wallace

Heather Parry is a writer and reader based in Glasgow. Her work has been performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and has been published in many books and magazines. Heather, in her own words, writes weird fiction and non-fiction, while she is the co-founder and editorial director of Extra Teeth magazine. She also produces and co-presents Teenage Scream, a podcast about point horror books, with Kirsty Logan, and she chairs various literary events throughout Scotland.Heather is currently working on her second and third novels, and a collection of short stories. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How a Croydon housewife baffled a 1930s ghost hunter - the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale, talks to Matthew Sweet about her discovery of a dossier of interviews about a poltergeist "terrorising" Alma Fielding which made headlines in the 1938 Sunday Pictorial newspaper. 30 artists interested in seances and spirituality are on show in an exhibition co-curated by Simon Grant and the Drawing Room Gallery in partnership with Hayward Touring. Plus we return to a radio experiment in telepathy and a 1920s on air seance with psychologist Richard Wiseman, author of Paranormality amongst many other books. Can you sense what card he is holding? Kate Summerscale's latest book The Haunting of Alma Fielding is out now and is being read as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 from October 24th. The Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist as Medium developed in partnership with Drawing Room, London runs there until Nov 1st, then it is at Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield 19th Nov - 7 March 2021, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea 20 March - June 13 2021, Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool. The 1927 BBC telepathy experiment with Sir Oliver Lodge described by Richard Wiseman was listed in the Radio Times and you can read about it here: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1a8b7f91de874debaa392671d7542ea3# This episode is part of BBC Radio 3's residency at the Southbank Centre and the BBC Culture in Quarantine initiative https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts In the Free Thinking archives and available as Arts & Ideas podcasts are episodes in which Matthew Sweet goes ghost hunting in Portsmouth https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dynj0 Shahidha Bari discusses ghost stories and Halloween with curator Irving Finkel, writers Jeremy Dyson, Kirsty Logan, Nisha Ramayya and Adam Scovell https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t19 Matthew Sweet looks at the history of magic https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kvss and at Piranesi and disturbing architecture hearing from guests including Susanna Clarke and Lucy Arnold https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mlgh and at mystics and reality hearing about spiritualist Daniel Dunglas Home from New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07f6r54 Producer: Alex Mansfield

Oto i on – wakacyjny dziennik lektur! W tym roku na wakacjach udało nam się przeczytać sporo dobrej literatury. Jest reportaż, kilka dobrych powieści, autobiografia, eseje, opowiadania… Było różnorodnie i bardzo ciekawie. Zapraszamy do słuchania! Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Simon Stranger, „Leksykon światła i mroku”, tłum. Katarzyna Tunkiel, Wydawnictwo Literackie; Arundhati Roy, „Ministerstwo niezrównanego szczęścia”, tłum. Jerzy Łoziński, Zysk i Sk-a.; Michelle Obama, „Becoming. Moja historia”, tłum. Dariusz Żukowski, wydawnictwo Agora; Siri Hustvedt, „Lato bez mężczyzn”, tłum. Joanna Hryniewska, wydawnictwo Świat Książki; Einar Kárason, „Sztormowe ptaki”, tłum. Jacek Godek, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego; James Baldwin „Zapiski syna tego kraju” tłum. Mikołaj Denderski, Karakter; Meir Shalev, „Dwie niedźwiedzice”, tłum. Anna Halbersztat, wydawnictwo Marginesy; Elizabeth Åsbrink, „Czuły punkt. Teatr, naziści i zbrodnia”, tłum. Irena Kowadło-Przedmojska, wydawnictwo Czarne; Kristen R. Ghodsee, „Kobiety, socjalizm i dobry seks”, tłum. Anna Dzierzgowska, wydawnictwo Sonia Draga; Kirsty Logan, „Things We Say in the Dark”, Harvill Secker. Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush Dodatkowe dźwięki: https://bit.ly/JoeFunktastic

On this episode we delve into the world of horror, taking a look at the classic 70s film The Wicker Man and talking with someone whose latest short story collection is currently being considered in Hollywood. What is the appeal of horror? Why has it increased in popularity during lockdown? Why do we tell stories about ghosts? In this episode we will try to find out. Award winning novelist and short story writer Kirsty Logan tells us why Things We Say In The Dark, her latest collection, is darker and more horror inspired than her previous work. She also talks about the appeal of horror fiction in general and why The Wicker Man in particular leaves us so uneasy. We also feature an edited excerpt from our Midsummer Wigtown Wednesdays event, which was a discussion on the classic 1970s horror film The Wicker Man. Musician, journalist and Church of England Parish Priest Rev. Richard Coles and comedian, writer and broadcaster Robin Ince discuss the enduring appeal of the film and consider its many themes with our marvellous chair Lee Randall. Presented by Peggy Hughes with incidental music by Ragland.

I love the way the three different voices work in this piece, each concerned with their own goals. Even though there's no actual dialogue there's still a conversation happening, even if it feels like neither is really listening to the others. As interesting as this is narratively, it makes it really fun to read aloud. More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/weirdwards-we-can-make-something-grow-between-the-mushrooms-and-the-snow-kirsty-logan/

Kim są mistrzynie krótkich form? Czy zwięźlej znaczy lepiej? Czego potrzeba, by w zajmujący sposób pisać o trudnych tematach? W dzisiejszym odcinku rozmawiamy o pięciu zbiorach opowiadań: Sarah Hall, "Madame Zero", tłum. Dobromiła Jankowska, Wydawnictwo Pauza; Roxane Gay, "Histeryczki", tłum. Dorota Konowrocka-Sawa, Poradnia K; Mariana Enriquez, "To, co utraciłyśmy w ogniu", tłum. Marta Jordan, Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca; Kirsty Logan, "Things We Say in the Dark", Harville Secker; Julia Armfield, "salt slow", Picador. Zachęcamy do dzielenia się opiniami na https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze/ Wykorzystałyśmy ścieżkę dźwiękową autorstwa: bit.ly/jennush

A story of birth, growth and magic, read by Nicola Ferguson. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Shahidha Bari's guests include author Kirsty Logan and former League of Gentlemen writer and performer Jeremy Dyson, whose play Ghost Stories is back in the West End. Joining them is the film critic and author of a novella called Mothlight, Adam Scovell, poet Nisha Ramayya whose work States of the Body produced by Love speaks of goddesses who symbolise all the attributes of women and British Museum curator and expert on ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic Irving Finkel.

This episode continues a short series on the psychology of writing, looking at the stories we tell ourselves when we tell stories. Here I look at the many ways in which we might tell ourselves we're not writing the right kind of story, what we write isn't proper fiction, and we're not proper novelists. I talk a bit about the uncomfortable feeling when our intuitive mental image of what a novel or a novelist looks like doesn't match up to what we're writing or who we think we are. And, of course - because I'm not about to leave you hanging - I suggest some ways through, some strategies by which we might start to explore those feelings and challenge them in a lasting way. If you'd like to read Kirsty Logan's work for yourself click here to get THE GRACEKEEPERS delivered to your door with free shipping worldwide: https://wordery.com/the-gracekeepers-kirsty-logan-9781784700133#oid=1908_1 Or Melissa Harrison's ALL AMONG THE BARLEY: https://wordery.com/all-among-the-barley-melissa-harrison-9781408897997#oid=1908_1 Here's her Costa-shortlisted novel AT HAWTHORN TIME: https://wordery.com/at-hawthorn-time-melissa-harrison-9781408859070#oid=1908_1 And her first, CLAY: https://wordery.com/clay-melissa-harrison-9781408842553#oid=1908_1 Or Aliette de Bodard's THE HOUSE OF SUNDERING FLAMES: https://wordery.com/the-house-of-sundering-flames-aliette-de-bodard-9781473223400#oid=1908_1 If you'd like a free weekly writing exercise you can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/gbmfcP If you'd like to support me, it'd be ace if you picked up a copy of my novels, THE HONOURS, & the new sequel THE ICE HOUSE. THE ICE HOUSE links: Wordery: https://wordery.com/the-ice-house-tim-clare-9781786894816#oid=1908_1 Mr B’s Emporium: https://mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-ice-house/ Forbidden Planet: https://forbiddenplanet.com/272064-the-ice-house-hardcover/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786894815/ THE HONOURS links: Wordery: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1 Mr B’s Emporium: https://mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-honours/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782114769/ Ko-fi page: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

In this episode of BOOKS WITH JEN, Jen talks with Kirsty Logan about self-doubt, beginnings and in between spaces. If you enjoy 'BOOKS WITH JEN' please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/jenvcampbell A transcript is available in the Closed Captions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k79iIgGUtvg Kirsty Logan http://www.kirstylogan.com/ Teenage Scream https://soundcloud.com/teenagescream The Gracekeepers https://tinyurl.com/y8na85zr The Gloaming https://tinyurl.com/y5t5r8ed The Rental Heart https://tinyurl.com/ycwzmgcj A Portable Shelter https://tinyurl.com/zzyyl8k Things We Say in the Dark https://tinyurl.com/y4cxvxkm Youtube: www.youtube.com/jenvcampbell Website: www.jen-campbell.co.uk Twitter: www.twitter.com/jenvcampbell

Rachel and Melody talk about their favorite disaster novels and discuss whether they'd survive an apocalypse! Check out what we talked about: "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen with "One Year After" and "The Final Day," the remaining books in the After series. Also, the 2018 films "A Quiet Place" and Netflix's "Bird Box." "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel with readalike "The Gracekeepers" by Kirsty Logan. "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood with "The Year of the Flood" and "MaddAddam," the remaining books in the MaddAddam series. Also, Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." "Dry" by Neal Shusterman with readalike "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson and the Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman. TV shows "Doomsday Preppers" and "Jericho." Interested in Disaster reads? Try our Dystopian booklist: https://oakcreeklibrary.org/adult-booklists/#tableid=76. Wondering about your survival chances? Take this quiz: https://zomboid.com/zombie/ Check out books, movies, and and other materials through the Milwaukee County Federated Library System: https://countycat.mcfls.org/ https://www.hoopladigital.com/ https://wplc.overdrive.com/ https://oakcreeklibrary.org/

Gazelle Twin (Elizabeth Bernholz), Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and an audience at Café OTO at the Late Junction Festival for a debate about trends within British culture. Gazelle Twin (Elizabeth Bernholz) is a British composer, producer and musician Julia Bardsley,is a performer and lecturer Hannah Catherine Jones is a multi-instrumentalist and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra Luke Turner is co-founder and editor of arts magazine The Quietus and author of a memoir Out of the Woods. William Fowler is Curator of Artists' Moving Image at the BFI National Archive. BFI's Derek Jarman's Blu-ray box set available 18th March 2019. https://bit.ly/2VRl5hg You might also be interested in Enchantment Witches and Woodland https://bbc.in/2C2fQnK Encyclopedias and Knowledge - includes a discussion about Mark Fisher K Punk https://bbc.in/2UO8V8n Into the Eerie - an episode of Radio 3's Sunday Feature https://bbc.in/2EM26PF Charms - authors Zoe Gilbert, Madeline Miller and Kirsty Logan https://bbc.in/2FZfflG Producer: Debbie Kilbride

Teenage Scream hosts Kirsty Logan & Heather Parry have some nuanced and calm opinions about a certain Point Horror author.

This episode I chat to author Kirsty Logan about fairy tales, the subconscious, and stories outside the mainstream. Kirsty Logan is the author of Fantasy novel THE GRACEKEEPERS, about an ocean-filled world where land is scarce, a travelling circus boat, a bear, and a girl charged with tending the souls of the dead. We talk about her fascination with fairy tales while growing up, her short stories, writing retreats, perceptions of mainstream versus niche books, and why weird is good. This is a great episode to listen to if you want to know: - what if my ideas aren't like most other books? - how can I write about weird things? - how can I use fairy tales in my work? - what's it like going on writing retreat? - how can I bounce back from criticism or rejection? If you'd like to read Kirsty's work for yourself click here to get THE GRACEKEEPERS delivered to your door with free shipping worldwide: https://wordery.com/the-gracekeepers-kirsty-logan-9781784700133#oid=1908_1 And if you're interested in what I can do, click here and treat yourself to my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1 If you'd like to support the podcast, you can click here and very easily drop me a few beans: www.ko-fi.com/timclare Thank you.

Kirsty Logan is an author, freelance editor, and book reviewer. She is also a writing mentor for the WoMentoring Project. (Check out a previous episode with WoMentoring Founder Kerry Hudson) Her most recent book, The Gloaming, is out now. Kirsty Logan's Book Choices: The Dolls Alphabet by Camilla Grudova Gossip From The Forest by Sarah Maitland Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel You can follow Kirsty on twitter @KirstyLogan and visit her website for more information. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Kirsty Logan is a fiction writer, book reviewer, freelance editor, and writing mentor for WoMentoring. She also volunteers at Oxfam Books. She’s had four books published, two novels and two short story collections. Her writing has been translated into Japanese and Spanish, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries, and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine.She’s 34 and lives in Glasgow, where she mostly hangs out with her wife Annie and their rescue dog Rosie, reads books, drinks coffee, falls into YouTube pits, listens to true crime podcasts, and dreams of the sea. Find her at http://www.kirstylogan.com/How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Each generation creates its own myths and in Free Thinking, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to three writers whose novels and stories spring bright and fresh from a compost of classical legend and British folk stories. Madeline Miller, the American writer who re-created Achilles for the 21st century, now turns her attention to Circe, nymph, lowest-of-the-low goddess or witch, who possesses a unique sympathy for humanity. Zoe Gilbert's obsession with folk stories where strange things happen and no-one asks why has led her to create a new island replete with a population of selkies and hares, water bulls and human happiness and tragedy. Kirsty Logan's novel of The Gloaming, takes us to an island somewhere-sometime-never off the West Coast of Scotland where turning to stone and the mermaid life are all part and parcel of daily existence. Together they discuss the enduring nature of certain kinds of stories, why they still matter and so often enjoy a surge in popularity at times of social stress and confusion. Madeline Miller: Circe is out now Zoe Gilbert: Folk is out now Kirsty Logan: The Gloaming is out now Producer: Jacqueline Smith

Kirsty Logan and her editor Liz Foley hash out the editing process and how Kirsty's New Book, The Gloaming, came to be.Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterKirsty Logan - The Gloaming 'The best lives leave a mark.' A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home.Mara’s island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her.Mara’s parents – a boxer and a ballerina – chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don’t care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara’s world unravels.It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself.The Gloaming is a gorgeous tale of love and grief, and the gap between fairy tales and real life.Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1113850/the-gloaming/#oc5jAKil6pHDT36C.99 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the programme this week, linguist David Crystal is looking at pronunciation - what does is mean to have a 'friendly accent'? Inspired by David's writing is a brand new poem from Mike Garry which plays with 'Approximants' - consonants that sound like vowels and are often seen as being friendly. In 'Spandex and the City' (Orbit), novelist Jenny Colgan finds out what happens when a romantic heroine meets a superhero, and we hear an extract from 'Lord Fox', a collaboration between the writer Kirsty Logan, harpist Esther Swift and songwriter Kirsty Law Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright.

George Saunders, Kirsty Logan, Jenn Asworth and Paul McVeigh discuss writing fiction short and long with presenter Matthew Sweet. Acclaimed American short story writer George Saunders talks about travelling in time to explore Abraham Lincoln's life during the American Civil War when the President's beloved young son died. These historical events have inspired Saunder's first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, whilst his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeeney's and GQ. He compares notes on the art of the short story with Paul McVeigh, Jenn Ashworth and Kirsty Logan, who've been commissioned by New Writing North and the WordFactory to write Flash Fiction on this year's Free Thinking Festival theme of The Speed of Life. Kirsty Logan is the author of books including The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales and a range of short stories. Jenn Ashworth's books include Fell, The Friday Gospels, A Kind of Intimacy and Cold Light and a selection of short stories. Paul McVeigh has won prizes including the Polari prize for his debut novel The Good Son. Born in Belfast he is co-founder of the London Short Story Festival, writes a blog and has represented the UK at events in Mexico and Turkey. Recorded in front of an audience as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. The stories commissioned for the Festival are available to listen to as an Arts and Ideas podcast available for 30 days. Producer: Zahid Warley

Ever on the hunt for new literary voices, we bring together a panel of authors and an audience of readers to explore the road to publication and what lies beyond. Working with Vintage, we welcome writers Kirsty Logan, Ruth Ware and Vesna Goldsworthy to the stage to talk to journalist and Vintage Podcast host Alex Clark. We settle down to listen to our evening's speakers discussing the development of their work and how they secured industry support. The focus of the night is on discovering new voices in contemporary literature, providing insight into how these authors write and what it's like to be an author at the start of your career. Glasgow-based journalist and author Kirsty Logan won the 2014 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection with 'The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales' before penning breakout debut 'The Gracekeepers'—a magical tale of a floating circus adrift in a flooded world, the telling of which has been compared to the work of luminaries such as Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Ruth Ware provides the dark chills of the evening in the form of debut psychological thriller 'In a Dark, Dark Wood'. Touted as the next big thing in crime fiction, this is a tale of toxic friendship and power games gone wrong as estranged friends reunite for a hen party in a woodland retreat, in a tightly-plotted whodunit reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Sophie Hannah. Serbian poet and writer Vesna Goldsworthy is also no stranger to print, having previously published nonfiction cultural history 'Inventing Ruritania' and a memoir, 'Chernobyl Strawberries'. This year's Great Gatsby-inspired 'Gorsky' marks her first novel—the eponymous Russian oligarch of which tasks exiled Serbian bookseller Nikola to curate a model library, in an attempt to win the heart of a woman with whom both men are infatuated.

My guest on this episode is renowned author, screenwriter and playwright Alan Bissett. If you don't know him from his excellent prose and theatre work then you may know him from how active he was for the Yes campaign during the 2014 Scottish Referendum.But to me, he's a novelist first and foremost. He'd probably disagree with that, yet that's how I got into his writing so I guess that'll always be my perception of him.When I began studying Scottish Literature in first year of university, I was motivated (in no small part by some weird sense of cultural nationalism) to spend the time away from the course texts  and to absorb other Scottish writers. Trainspotting is a book we're all familiar with, and naturally that happened to be the only Scottish novel that I'd read going into uni and the relatively older age of 24. That book then turned up as a course text in my first year because, well... why wouldn't it?Re-reading it, and realising I had access to a huge library and a vast reservoir of Scots literary knowledge, I spent my time in between essays, exams and course texts pulling as many different books as I could from between the stacks of the Glasgow Uni library. I devoured Kelman, Crichton Smith, MacCaig, Gray, Spark and then moved onto more contemporary authors like Bissett, Louise Welsh and Robertson among others. Boyracers was one of the first contemporary novels I read.I went on to read Pack Men, as it was his most recent at the time, and then Death of a Ladies Man. Welsh was important to me because it demonstrated that people could write in Scots and "get away with it"; Kelman was vital to my literary development because it was the first novel I read in Glaswegian, and it contained characters the likes of which I'd met in my own scheme when growing up; but Bissett was more relevant, largely in part because I found it easier to identify with teenagers from Falkirk than I could with twenty-something heroin addicts in Leith or a blind guy in Glasgow. As I look back on that period of voracious reading, I now know it was because the community he depicts in Boyracers, and later again in Pack Men, is so similar to ones I know.This podcast is a very cerebral chat. I hope you don't find it too dense. Highlights include:Creativity always seemed natural, he kept coming back to that when he was youngCame to realise writing was a career when he was doing a PHd Being shortlisted for the Macallan Prize is when he realised writing was a thingComing from a TV household with no creative familyYou only start to realise the themes of your writing when people start to talk to you aboutScottish writing and the themes of identity of community, and how those mainly seem to come from writers who are not from the landed gentryHow Alan finds this to be more powerful and valuable than writing about rich people having drawing room affairsThe object of growing up is like to get out of your community and how that leads to a sense of guilt when you doHow current writers that he's been working with seem to reflect the difference in community now than in the generation before – Boyracers was filled with hope, but it's hope that the current generation of teenagers don't feelThere's a generation of young theatre makers like Steph Smith, Catrion Evans, Kiron Hurly, Gary McNair, Rob Drummond and Nick Green who are doing politically explicit workThe radical spirit that theatre had in the 70s with John McGrath etc feels like it's coming backYet it's harder for Scottish novelists to be political because of the global competitionIt's very difficult for political novels to get throughHow Late It Was, How Late was prophetic about the struggle people face with the DWP now, despite it being written in the mid 90sPeople want to escape reality instead of experience or read about what people actually feel say and doAmerican cultural colonisation is greater than ever despite the narratives of big media franchises like Game of Thrones or Marvel films not being culturally specificOur obsessions with these universal cultures mean that local cultures – their stories, dialects, art – are slowly being erased and neglectedBut that's not to say we should protect our cultures by allowing them to remain untouched, rather there should be cultural spaces where local culture still exist – we must preserve minority cultureIt's difficult to know what our default cultural tastes would be when entertainment is controlled by media conglomeratesThe artist's that feel that they have some kind of social responsibility at least signals that they are willing to make a stand that's bigger than just them as an individualWe get caught up in the rights of the individual above all else and it's not surprise because that's capitalism but we have to perverse the work that we doMoving to writing plays is as much about the economic reality of writing novels and how difficult it is to pay bills as a full time writer when it takes a long time to write a book Many novelists are stimulated into over production because of the fear of having their livelihood taken away from them, Alan can't work like thatThere's also an energy in Scottish theatre that wasn't quite there in Scottish literatureTheatre is more immediate but a novel is more powerful because of the mental experience is deeperYet a play can react quicker to current events whereas a novel takes timeThe full scale demolition of masculinity in Death of a Ladies ManThe alpha male pursuit to anoint great works of literatureAnd how that pursuit can be destructive, and the way that has affected the mental health of many great writes, such as James JoyceHowever ambition is required to power you through being creativeYet a lot of female writers have a completely different mindset, which often makes them better writersThe Caledonian Antisyzergy and the dual identity of Scots which is reflected in referendum resultThe referendum was Scotland finding out what it is was – Scotland doesn't know what it is or what it would spring towards whilst it's still part of the unionAlan finds that interviews aren't fun anymore because they talk about politics…So we make it fun by talking about MarvelAnd the seemingly infinite expansion of franchisesWe have a shared love for blockbuster moves despite them being more disposable than everAlan's favourite film is Jaws and compared to current CGI films, it feels so handmadeThe shift in the 70s in blockbuster films which shook everything up in terms of how big budget films are made, and how that shift would not happen now because of CGIWe agree Marvel Studios are good at retaining artists' singular vision in a big budget blockbuster settingDisney used to feel like a benign company that used to make kids films every year, and now they seem to run HollywoodThere are, however, more nourishing forms of entertainmentWHY ARE ADULTS WATCHING KIDS FILMS?! And whey to complain about them when they're not FOR adults?Society aims to keep us in a state of permanent adolescence Some Scottish Literature chat – James Robertson is a genius, he's so far ahead of every other Scottish author. Also, Louise Welsh, Kirsty Logan, John Niven, Sophie Sexton, William Letford, Richie McCafferty, Laura Marney, Rodge Glass, Zoe Strachan are all people to watchAlso James Hogg – Confessions of a Justified Sinner is ESSENTIAL literatureLots of show notes here. Apologies for the length of the post. I hope you enjoy the episode!Featured MusicIntro: Voodoo Puppets – Electric Chair Blues (used under CC licence, you can check it out here).Suede - The Next LifePink Floyd - Comfortably NumbMartyn Bennett - MoveAll music can be purchased on iTunes and the digital retailer of your choice. Or in a record store. You know they still exist, right? I make no claim to the copyright of these tracks.LinksGo buy any of Alan's books from a book store. A bricks and mortar one. That'd be well good.You can see his website here to see what he's upto in the theatre world. His twitter and facebook are also pretty cool.Thank you!My thanks are eternal to you and everyone else who has listened to the podcast and helped me get it to where it is. If you could take a second to rate and review this podcast on iTunes I'd love you forever and ever.Questions? Feedback?You can do either by dropping a comment in the comment box below.Or you can hit the contact link to show me some love by using the cool email form.Social MediaI'm on a few social media sites, so it'd be pretty handy if you could show me some love over there.Check out the Facebook page.Or you can get me on Twitter.Oh and seriously, rating and reviewing this podcast on iTunes would be amazing. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

August skys may have turned to rain but this month's podcast takes you back to a glorious summer weekend and the Vintage Live event at the Wilderness Festival. Alex Clark hosts authors Nicci Cloke, Anna Whitwham, Samantha Harvey, Evie Wyld, Samantha Ellis, Kirsty Logan, Andrew McMillan and Deborah Moggach to discuss getting published, what fiction is for and adapting work for the big screen. Sit back, relax, and imagine yourself in the comforting warmth of our marquee in Oxfordshire. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterYou can find out more about the author's books below. Anna Whitwham: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/009958445x/anna-whitwham/boxer-handsome/ Nicci Cloke: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099593653/nicci-cloke/lay-me-down/ Samantha Harvey: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099597667/samantha-harvey/dear-thief/ Evie Wyld: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/022409971x/evie-wyld-and-joe-sumner/everything-is-teeth/ Samantha Ellis: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099575566/samantha-ellis/how-to-be-a-heroine-or-what-i-ve-learned-from-reading-too-much/ Kirsty Logan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846559162/kirsty-logan/the-gracekeepers/ Andrew McMillan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224102133/andrew-mcmillan/physical/ Deborah Moggach: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1784740470/deborah-moggach/something-to-hide/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Amanda, Jeff, and Rebecca talk the news and new books of Book Expo America. This week's episode is sponsored by TryAudiobooks.com, Scribd, and The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk the best book set in each state, a huge book deal, Sam and Frodo walking distances, homophobia in schools, new books, and more. This week's episode is sponsored by: The Novice by Taran Matharu Scribd The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

May was a bumper month for fiction so this month's podcast focuses on three brilliant novels. Alex Clark talks to Kirsty Logan about her magical debut novel The Gracekeepers, to Vesna Goldsworthy about her Gatsby-inspired novel Gorsky and to Irish Laureate Anne Enright about her latest novel, The Green Road. You can also hear an amazing speech from Anne Enright by following this link: https://soundcloud.com/vintagebookspodcast/anne-enright-on-ireland-writing-and-reading Find out more about ... The Gracekeepers: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846559162/kirsty-logan/the-gracekeepers/ Gorsky: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1784740098/vesna-goldsworthy/gorsky/ The Green Road: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224089056/anne-enright/the-green-road/Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterKirsty Logan - The GracekeepersA flooded world. A floating circus. Two women in search of a home.North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper.A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life.But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.Anne Enright - The Green Road Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Foyles are delighted to welcome and introduce Kirsty Logan with this reading from her forthcoming debut novel 'The Gracekeepers'. Appearing at our recent event with Reif Larsen and Audrey Niffenegger, Kirsty treated the audience to a section of her hotly-anticipated new book. You'll want to watch out for this one!

This month, host Paul Gallagher is joined by two Scottish writers, Kirsty Logan and Gavin Inglis to discuss Tenth of December, the new collection of short stories from George Saunders. Saunders has received many awards and accolades for his short story writing, most recently  the inaugural Folio Prize, yet he is far from a household name. Tenth of December is a dark collection of stories with a sci-fi feel that explores a near-dystopian American society and the lives of those living in it. But did it divide our panel as much as it divided reviewers, whose opinions ranged from “the best book you'll read this year” to “rather insubstantial”?Listen now to find out what our panel thought about this collection, and whether short stories can ever match the literary experience of a novel. 

In this edition of the Book Talk podcast Ryan Van Winkle interviews Kirsty Logan about her debut collection of short stories, discusses parkour with novelist and poet Tim Sinclair and imagines the Scotland of the future with sci-fi author Ken MacLeod.The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales is the debut short story collection from former New Writers Award recipient Kirsty Logan. Written over the course of five years, the stories are set in locations as diverse as 1920s New Orleans, the Australian Outback and Paris.Kirsty reads her moving short story The Light Eater and discusses how writing helped her to process difficult emotions.Australian novelist and poet Tim Sinclair talks about his latest young adult novel, Run. Written in concrete poetry, where words function both linguistically and visually, the book explores the world of parkour, where participants “move through the urban environment in a way that doesn't allow for boundaries”. But when ego gets involved, trouble quickly follows.Finally, acclaimed sci-fi writer Ken MacLeod discusses his new book about “flying saucers, hidden races and Antonio Gramsci's theory of passive revolution”. Descent follows the teens and twenties of an ordinary Greenock man whose bad behaviour is blamed on a possible alien encounter.Moving from science fiction to science fact, Ken also explains his involvement with Hope Beyond Hype, a comic book he wrote in collaboration with OptiStem, an EU-funded stem cell research project. It was downloaded over 100 000 in times in the first few days following release - listen now to discover how the book was developed.Podcast contents00:00-00:53 Introduction00:53-09:20 Kirsty Logan interview09:20-16:30 Tim Sinclair Interview16:30-30.00 Ken MacLeod interview

This month, Paul Gallagher hosts a discussion of Kate Atkinson's new novel, Life After Life. Joining him are Kirsty Logan, books editor with The List, and Peggy Hughes, communications executive with Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust and member of the League of Extraordinary Booklovers. Together, they delve into a book that trips backwards and forwards through time, reliving the main character's life (and many deaths) over and over and question whether the novel is a literary dream come true or a recurrent nightmare.

In the first of a new series of Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Kirsty Logan reads her new story, This is Liberty, and talks about the inspiration behind the work.

I’m a guest narrator on Pseudopod 228: Flash On The Borderlands VII. I narrated the story “Hunting” by Kirsty Logan. “There was only one inner door, so the hunter opened it. He held his candle at arm’s length, but still could see nothing more than the foot of an ocean-sized bed. The hunter crawled across […]

LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES by Kirsty Logan

Author: Kirsty Logan Title: Three Variations on Susan Genre: Creative Nonfiction Publication date: May 2009