Podcast appearances and mentions of mary kay wilmers

Nina Stibbe was fifty when she first became a published writer with Love Nina, a collection of letters she wrote to her sister in the 1980s about her time working as a very inexperienced young nanny for Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of books.She found herself running a home where Alan Bennett often appeared at suppertime and other famous neighbours and people would pop round - though Nina had often no idea who they were. Her affectionate, witty memoir won non-fiction Book of the Year in 2014 and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series.After nannying, Nina worked in publishing and then moved to Cornwall where she lived with her partner and children. Since the success of Love Nina, she has written six more books, four of them novels. Her latest, Went to London, Took the Dog, charts her first return to the capital for twenty years. It's a break from domestic life back in Cornwall, or perhaps a fresh start altogether. Nina's musical choices include music by Handel, Mozart, Brahms and Benjamin Clementine.

Mary-Kay Wilmers, who retired as editor of the LRB last month, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her career, first at Faber and Faber, then the Listener, then for 42 years at the London Review of Books. She talks about working with T.S. Eliot, the importance of being teased, and how a joke by Alan Bennett changed her life.The episode also contains extracts from Wilmers’s 1988 diary for the LRB, ‘Putting in the Commas’, and O’Hagan’s piece about Wilmers in the latest issue of the paper. Read and listen to them in full here:Mary-Kay Wilmers: Putting in the CommasAndrew O'Hagan: Miss SkippitSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stefan Collini talks to Thomas Jones about the life and work of Frank Kermode, and Mary-Kay Wilmers remembers him as a contributor to the LRB.Find LRB pieces related to this episode here: lrb.me/frankkermodepodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20bBuy the LRB’s selection of Frank Kermode’s essays from the LRB Store: lrb.me/kermodeselectionpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the publication of Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?, a new selection of Jenny Diski's LRB essays, chosen and introduced by Mary-Kay Wilmers, Deborah Friedell talked to Chloe Diski about Jenny's life and work.You can order Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? from us here: https://lrb.me/order See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the London Review of Books, and mark the publication of The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History, the LRB’s editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers, along with Alan Bennett, Andrew O’Hagan, John Lanchester and Sheng Yun, talk to LRB publisher Nicholas Spice about the history and character of the paper. The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History is available to buy on the LRB store:https://lrb.me/storepodRead more Alan Bennett in the LRB here: https;//lrb.me/bennettpod 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.

Adam talks with British writer Nina Stibbe, about David Sedaris, sex and inappropriate male behaviour from the 70s and beyond, and the dangers of writing about real people. There's also some discussion of dentistry and thigh vaginas.Nina is the author of 'Love Nina- Dispatches From Family Life' (2013), a collection of letters that she wrote to her sister Vicky in the 80s while working in North London as a nanny to the children of Mary-Kay Wilmers, who was the editor of the London Review of Books.'Man At The Helm' (2014), is the first in a series of comic novels about Nina's fictional alter ego Lizzie Vogel, in which the young Lizzie and her siblings trying to find a suitable man for their wayward Mum.'Paradise Lodge' (2016) finds the teenaged Lizzie working at a care home for the elderly.The latest in the Lizzie Vogel series is called 'Reasons To Be Cheerful' (2019) and this time the story takes place in the early 80s as Lizzie finds work as a dental assistant, a job that Nina herself did for several years as a young woman.This conversation was recorded in London, March 2019Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Matt Lamont for additional editing.RELATED LINKSNINA RECEIVES AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5cE8X5MQY'APOLLO 11' DOCUMENTARY TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWcGIL SCOTT-HERON - WHITEY ON THE MOONhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4THE ADAM BUXTON APPhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-adam-buxton-app/id1264624915?mt=8 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wilmers has been the editor of the ‘London Review of Books’, Europe’s legendary literary journal, since 1992. She’s also the author of non-fiction work ‘The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story’ and, more recently, ‘Human Relations and Other Difficulties’, a collection of essays on women’s experiences. She talks to Monocle’s Megan Gibson about the joy of a good sentence and retracing the history of her Russian ancestors.

Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Eastham talk to Sarah Howe about ‘Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age’.Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acastRead Mary-Kay Wilmers in the LRB: https://lrb.me/wilmerspodRead Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB: https://lrb.me/ohaganpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers, and contributors Jeremy Harding and John Lanchester, discussed the pleasures and pitfalls of writing family histories, under the chairmanship of LRB publisher Nicholas Spice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.