Podcasts about Pushkin Press

Send us a textWhat was that? A bat or swallow? Something flitted past, but we can't agree on what we've just seen ... Erica McAlpine reads from Small Pointed Things (just published by Carcanet) that makes that uncertain territory her own,  with meticulously crafted poems that harbour hard questions.And talking of things that flit past your window, Peter gets an early look at White Teeth, Red Blood, selected Vampire Verses published shortly by Pushkin Press. We'll listen to John Keats's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', and hear why the knight is alone and palely loitering... Meanwhile Robin discovers Hope Mirrlees, and a long Modernist poem 'Paris' - which predated Old Possum's 'The Waste Land' by two years. Plus we read an affectionate poem by Tim Relf, for Father's Day. Support the showPlanet Poetry is a labour of love!If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support and Buy us a Coffee!

Mavis Gallant is best known for her short stories, 116 of which were first published in the New Yorker. Extraordinarily varied and prolific, she arranged her life around the solitary pleasure of writing while battling extreme self-doubt. Tessa Hadley joins Joanne O'Leary to discuss her recent review of 44 previously uncollected Gallant stories and her own forthcoming selection for Pushkin Press. They explore what makes Gallant a ‘writer's writer', where her reporting and fiction intersect, and why her novels fail where her short stories succeed.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/gallantpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China's new AI model, DeepSeek, has rattled markets and raised questions about the global AI race. Meanwhile, just before leaving office, the Biden administration introduced the Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion—an ambitious new rule that could reshape how—and who—gets access to advanced AI technologies from the U.S. It is designed to regulate AI exports, strengthen partnerships with allies, and restrict adversaries' access to advanced AI chips and models.But with the Trump administration now in power, will this framework survive? The stakes are high: AI chips fuel cutting-edge technologies, and whoever controls them holds the keys to the future of advanced AI systems.In this episode, Sophia Besch and Technology and International Affairs Fellow Sam Winter-Levy explore what Biden's new AI framework aims to achieve, how DeepSeek might challenge U.S. AI dominance, and what we might expect from the Trump administration's with respect to AI exports. Will Washington double down on AI restrictions, or will Trump scrap Biden's framework in favor of a new approach? And with China rapidly advancing, can the U.S. maintain its technological edge?Notes:Sam Winter-Levy, "The AI Export Dilemma: Three Competing Visions for U.S. Strategy," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 13, 2024.Sam Winter-Levy, "With Its Latest Rule, the U.S. Tries to Govern AI's Global Spread,"  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 13, 2025.Matt Sheehan and Sam Winter-Levy, "Chips, China, and a Lot of Money: The Factors Driving the DeepSeek AI Turmoil," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 28, 2025.Leopold Aschenbrenner, "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead," June 2024.Jeffrey Ding, Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition, Princeton University Press (2024).Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World, Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books (2021).

Our second live recording of six writers reading their work in the intimate surroundings of the Colony Room Green bar. There will be occasional drink mixing and pouring, laughter and doors opening! Listen to Lana Citron talk about food as an aphrodisiac, Sue Hubbard read her novel Three about food as a source of emotional renewal, Lindsay Gillespie read her story about ravenous mermaids enjoying a night out at a seaside resort, Dr Stuart Gillespie talking about the way capitalism and agribusiness has corrupted our global food supplies, Martin Nathan reading a short story about how food evokes memories and Tabitha Potts reading a speculative short story about alien sin eaters. Content warning: Lana Citron's reading at the beginning of the podcast includes a description of animal abuse/cruelty from the writings of the Marquis de Sade which some listeners may find disturbing. Lana Citron is a prize-winning author and scriptwriter with twenty years' professional writing experience. She has published five novels, two non-fiction books and numerous short stories, plays, poems, film scripts, articles and book. Extracts read today are from her book Edible Pleasures, a Textbook of Aphrodisiacs.   Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and art critic who is new to Story Radio. She has published five collections of poetry, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt), Swimming to Albania (Salmon Poetry) and Radium Dreams (Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) in collaboration with the artist Eileen Cooper RA, and a series of poems, God's Little Artist (Seren). Her novels include: Depth of Field, (Dewi Lewis), Girl in White (Cinnamon and Pushkin Press), Rainsongs, (Duckworth, Overlook Press US, Mercure de France and Yilin Press, China) and Flatlands (Pushkin Press and Mercure de France). Rothko's Red, her collection of short stories, was published by Salt. She is currently working on a fifth novel, provisionally titled Three, which she reads in this podcast. Lindsay Gillespie was born in South Wales, and lives in the South Downs. In between she has been a graphic designer and illustrator, lived in New Delhi, Washington DC, France and taught English in Tokyo. In 2018-2019, she was enrolled in the Creative Writing Programme of New Writing South. She writes short and not-so-short stories and was a Costa 2021 Short Story Award finalist. A year later, she was a finalist for the Bridport Short Story Prize. Other short stories have been shortlisted in nine competitions in recent years including Fiction Factory, Exeter, Oxford Flash Fiction, Fiction Factory Flash, Rhys Davies, Frome, ChipLit, Edinburgh and Fish.   Our next reader is Dr Stuart Gillespie, a non-fiction writer who's also new to Story Radio. He has four decades of experience in nutrition and development since his first position as nutrition coordinator in a rural development project in southern India in the early 80s. His book Food Fight tells the tale of how the food system we once relied upon for global nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick. It will be published by Canongate in 2025. Martin Nathan's short fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals. His novel A Place of Safety is published by Salt Publishing. His dramatic writing has been shortlisted for the Nick Darke Award and the Woodward International Prize. Martin will be reading from a new short story. Founder and co-host of the Story Radio Podcast, Tabitha Potts is a short story writer and novelist. She received an Honourable Mention in the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize for her story 'Poppet' and is publishing her debut novel The House of Dust and Shadows in 2026 with Rowan Prose Publishing. Tabitha reads from 'The Sin-Eater', originally published in Fudoki Magazine.

Send us a textJoin us for a lively discussion of some of the best books published this year. At the breakfast table to discuss their poetry and fiction choices are poet Adam Wyeth and novelist Henrietta McKervey. Plenty of stocking filler ideas here, and Peter and Enda also get to mention some of their own favourite books of the year, or ones they finally got around to reading this year. This is a double espresso and multiple pastry episode, so get that pot on the stove and get the earbuds in!This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Adam's picks for 2024: Crash Centre by David McLoghlin , All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney, High Jump: An Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett, We Go On by Kerry Hardie  Honorable Mentions: Four Thousand Keys by Linda McKenna , American Anthem by Kelly Michels , Dismantle by Anne TannamHenrietta's Fiction Choices: Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything, John Boyne, Fire , Christine Dwyer Hickey, Our London Lives , Katja Oskamp, Half Swimmer  , Michael Frayn, Among Others Books mentioned by Peter: Lesley Chamberlain, Rilke, The Last Inward Man, Pushkin Press, Guillevic, Selected Poems, 1974, tr. by Teo Savory, Salvatore Quasimodo, Debit and Credit, tr. by Jack Bevan, 1972, Richard Zenith, Pessoa: An Experimental Life , Stanley Moss, Goddamed Selected Poems .Books mentioned by EndaDeborah Levy,  The Position of Spoons , Samantha Harvey, Orbital,, Grace Wilentz, Harmony (Unfinished), Aifric Mac Aodha, Old Friends,  James Harpur, The Gospel of GargoyleSupport the show

Across the world, the rise of various forms of authoritarianism and ethno-nationalism seems to be on an ever upward trend. This creates huge uncertainties across multiple dimensions – personal, cultural, political, and not least of which in challenges business leaders face as they attempt to navigate across this uncertainty. All of this turmoil is, according to Larry Kramer - the Vice Chancellor and President of the London School of Economics - to be expected. Neo-liberalism, the once dominant political/economic paradigm, is no longer able to explain or order our understandings of our world. This triggers a search for, and creation of, alternatives. If, or until a different liberal paradigm emerges, we are destined to contend with illiberal, authoritarian and often ethno-national alternatives. In this podcast Larry and I discuss the fall of neo-liberalism and the emerging contours of what may come to replace it. How and when this new paradigm emerges and whether it will successfully defeat the existing alternatives is perhaps the most important question we will face in the next decade(s). Larry provides a thoughtful and provocative framework in which to understand these macro trends. Prior to being appointed to lead the LSE, Larry was the President of the Willam and Flora Hewlett Foundation for 12 years. With assets of over $14 billion, the Foundation is one of the largest sources of grants in the USA. Prior to his work at the Foundation, Larry was the Dean of the Stanford Law School and is a world expert in US Constitutional law and the role of judicial review within that system.Not wanting to miss the opportunity to discuss recent shifts in the US Supreme Court with such an expert, at the end of our conversation we discuss these developments as an example of the power of a paradigm shift - the rise of ‘originalism' as a reaction to the state-led expansion of individual rights – to take on real world consequences. In this context, we discuss the Dobbs decision, the overturning of the Chevron defence and the emerging presidential immunity doctrine.My discussion with Larry reminded me of how fortunate we are at TRIUM to have the LSE as a partner. The depth of analysis and understanding of the macro trends affecting the environment in which business operates continues to be a unique selling point of our EMBA. Enjoy the show!CitationsOperation Mincemeat by Cummings, D. Hodgson N. and Roberts Z. at the New Diorama Theatre,London.A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and adapted by Kip Williams, with Sarah Snook at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.Labatut B. (2024) The Maniac. Pushkin Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Freudenheim, Director and Publisher of the burgeoning Pushkin Press, talks to Spiracle's Antonia Stassi about Background for Love, a fascinating novella written by publisher Helen Wolff - the co-published audiobook is narrated by Olivia Darnley.

One of the things we love most is encouraging new voices in fantasy - and so on today’s episode of Mythmakers, we are delighted to meet Liz Hyder, author of award-winning Bearmouth and forthcoming The Twelve (coming October 2024 from Pushkin Press). The Twelve is a wonderful YA fantasy adventure set in Pembrokeshire Wales, it is a gripping mystery and a delightfully poetic read with a heart for the environment and the kids who don't quite fit in with other teens. Join us to hear Liz's journey to being a writer, the books she recommends and the processes she follows.  For more information on Liz and her works visit https://www.lizhyder.co.uk   For more information on the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, our writing courses, and to check out our awesome social media content visit: Website: https://centre4fantasy.com/website Instagram: https://centre4fantasy.com/Instagram Facebook: https://centre4fantasy.com/Facebook TikTok: https://centre4fantasy.com/tiktok   0:00 Introduction to MythMakers Podcast 1:22 Early Influences and Gateway Books 2:50 Discovering Tolkien and Alan Garner 5:17 Alan Garner's Influence and Ongoing Inspiration 9:29 Writing Apprenticeship and Novel Drafting 11:15 Letting Go of Published Works and Moving Forward 12:30 Introduction to "The 12" and its Setting 14:55 Comparisons to Other Fantasy Writers 16:48 Personal Connection to Wales and Manorbeer 21:44 Setting the Story at the Turn of the Millennium 26:55 Loneliness and Isolation 30:37 Childhood Bullying Experiences 33:52 Characters Finding Connection 34:55 Patterns and Themes Emergence 36:48 The Empowerment of Editing 40:21 The Complex Villain 44:42 Collaboration with Artist Tom de Fresten 46:21 Caravan Holiday Destination: Narnia

In this episode, I speak with my colleague at TU, Boris Dralyuk on Vladmir Nabokov's delightful take on the campus novel, Pnin.  We explore our endearing hero's journey from being a man on the wrong train to becoming an American behind the wheel at long last.  I hope you enjoy our conversation.    Boris Dralyuk is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, and has taught there and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and other journals. He is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015), and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. He received first prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition and, with Irina Mashinski, first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2020 he received the inaugural  from the Washington Monthly. In 2022 he received the inaugural  from the National Book Critics Circle for his translation of Andrey Kurkov's Grey Bees. You can find him on X .   Jennifer A. Frey is the inaugural dean of the , with a secondary appointment as professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy and religion. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where she was also a Peter and Bonnie McCausland faculty fellow in the . Prior to her tenure at Carolina, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and a junior fellow of the .   She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. in philosophy and Medieval Studies (with a Classics minor) at Indiana University-Bloomington. In 2015, she was awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, titled “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life,” She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology, and she has edited three academic volumes on virtue and human action. Her writing has been featured in First Things, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.  She lives with her husband and six children in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is on X      

Welcome back to the Lecker Book Club. Every month I'll pick a newly released food related book and talk to the author about the process of writing it. I'll also be writing about it on Substack and Patreon. Join me there as well! Conversations around food often - rightly - touch on attribution, ownership and identity, especially when it comes to certain dishes. But the subject is so, so complicated and many dishes we consider to be deeply entrenched within a country's culinary history and culture are no more than PR exercises dreamed up a few decades ago.  In National Dish :Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home, Anya von Bremzen explores whether we can find nationhood on a plate - and what it says about us that we're so obsessed with looking for it there. I loved this book. It's fascinating and surprising but also Anya is such a great, dynamic writer that you feel like you're on the road with her: party hopping at the Semana Santa in Seville, in the boardroom of an instant ramen company in Tokyo, learning to roll out the perfect pizza dough in Naples, drinking midday mezcal in Oaxaca.  Anya and I spoke via video call a couple of weeks back, coincidentally on the day the book came out in the UK. National Dish is out now, published by ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack. Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.

Charlie and Nicolai Houm (The Gradual Disappearance Of Jane Ashland) discuss a unique and somewhat extreme form of coping with grief, where his characterisation blends into his own writer self, and the open ending he left his readers with. Please note that there's some swearing and mentions of suicide in this episode. Wikipedia's article on Andersonville Prison Where to find Charlie online Website || Twitter || Instagram Discussions 01:20 The starting point of loss and trauma 07:32 Jane, family, and replacing family 12:59 Jane as a writer and how she could have written the book herself 15:35 Nicolai's use of language and how his writer self is included in the book 20:51 Everything about Ulf 24:05 The significance of the musk oxen 28:14 Continuing on the musk oxen in regards to the ending of the book 31:48 How Jane's parents affected who she is 33:03 Nicolai's travels for surfing reasons and what's next

Curl up with us tonight as we enjoy the warmth of a cosy cabin as snow gives way to sweeping rain and our stove glows brightly in the gathering darkness.Journal entry:10th March, Friday“The convocation of oaks rises to my view From a swirling mist of snow and blown spindrift. Their trunks wrapped white. Icicles hang from their branches.I want to say, “Don't worry, Spring is on its way.”But they know that. They have known that before I was born They have known that for centuries. What can you tell trees that they don't know?”Episode Information:In this episode I briefly refer to the following: Christiane Ritter's A Woman in the Polar Night originally published in 1938 and republished by Pushkin Press in 2019. Tom Hennen's Darkness Sticks to Everything published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press. With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.Mary Keane.Arabella Holzapfel.Rory and MJ.Narrowboat Precious Jet.Linda Reynolds Burkins.Richard Noble.Carol Ferguson.General DetailsIn the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org. Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. For more information about Nighttime on Still WatersYou can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. Support the showBecome a 'Lock-Wheeler'Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.ContactFor pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on: Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw I would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon.

H.S. Norup, author of Into the Faerie Hill, The Missing Barbegazi and The Hungry Ghost, uses her world travel to inspire her fantasy. In her latest book she is turning to the myths and legends of Europe and giving faeries something of a makeover. Dismiss any idea of cute creatures in gauzy skirts and prepare to meet a much more dangerous set of creatures in her Middle Grade adventure. In discussion with Julia Golding, Helle talks about her journey to being an author, her writing process, and how she steers towards lighthouses as she writes. Helle recommends Faeries by Alan Froud and Alan Lee (yes, he of LotR fame) as a good source book. Stick around for our tops fantasy tips and to find out where in all the fantasy worlds is the best place to be a caver... A special thanks to Pushkin Press for putting us in touch with Helle, and for more information about her visit https://www.hsnorup.com

Join us around the stove tonight, on a very cosy NB Erica that is currently ice-locked into a frozen landscape, as we think about the Fimbulwinter of old, and why Midwinter might be mid-winter after all!Journal entry: 14th December, Wednesday.“Ridges of frost form ribs on the sweep of hills. Two rooks throw calls against a sky Marbled by the setting sun. Beyond the horizon, a pheasant startles a distant wood. My fingers and toes burn.Episode Information:In this episode I read very short extracts from:Christiane Ritter's beautiful A Woman in the Polar Night republished in 2019 Pushkin Press.Christina Rosetti's poem ‘In the Bleak Midwinter' (1872).The section on seasons from the Anglo-Saxon collection: Maxims II.Bede's The Reckoning of Time (11th-12th century)I also refer to:Alexandra Harris' (2016) Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skiespublished by Thames and HudsonEleanor Parker's (2022) Winters in the Word: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year published by Reaktion Books. For more information about Nighttime on Still WatersYou can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. General DetailsIn the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org. Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. ContactFor pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod·       Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw  I would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

We spoke with Adam Freudenheim, Publisher and Managing Director of Pushkin Press, about the ups and downs of running an independent press and how he found Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, now available as an audiobook on Spiracle.

Part 2 of 2. Fantasy has been dominated by English language books - from LotR to Game of Thrones, you could be forgiven to thinking fantasy was some medieval other place in northern Europe. In this episode of Mythmakers Julia Golding talks to Daniel Seton, commissioning editor at the very interesting publishing house, Pushkin Press, winner of the Independent Publisher of the Year 2022 in the UK, who have a remit to bring the best books from other languages into English. This includes a lot of fantasy, particularly for children, making classics from countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and Japan accessible for new audiences. What are the best books Daniel has read from other countries - we get lots of recommendations so bring a pencil! Can you discern different dominant flavours from different origins? We also meet mermaids and gorillas - so there is something for everyone! If you want to find out more about Pushkin Press, you can visit https://pushkinpress.com Visit http://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org for great gift items, event information, and sign up for our newsletter for super surprises!

Part 1 of 2. Fantasy has been dominated by English language books - from LotR to Game of Thrones, you could be forgiven to thinking fantasy was some medieval other place in northern Europe. In this episode of Mythmakers Julia Golding talks to Daniel Seton, commissioning editor at the very interesting publishing house, Pushkin Press, winner of the Independent Publisher of the Year 2022 in the UK, who have a remit to bring the best books from other languages into English. This includes a lot of fantasy, particularly for children, making classics from countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and Japan accessible for new audiences. What are the best books Daniel has read from other countries - we get lots of recommendations so bring a pencil! Can you discern different dominant flavours from different origins? We also meet mermaids and gorillas - so there is something for everyone! If you want to find out more about Pushkin Press, you can visit https://pushkinpress.com Visit http://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org for great gift items, event information, and sign up for our newsletter for super surprises!

In the first episode of this third season of the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast, Irene and Margaux welcome writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson. With Rebecca, we returned to the basics of tomato sauce, cooking together over Zoom as we talked about documenting home cooking, Rebecca's 10-year old dinner document blog, which has just been turned into a Substack, and her upcoming memoir Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, which will be published by Pushkin Press in August 2022. You can pre-order your copy here or from your favourite indie. ‘Cooking is thinking,' as Rebecca says, and in this moving conversation we discussed the marks we leave and the revolutions that can start from the kitchen. We can't wait for you to join us at the hob. Some news! Our very own Margaux Vialleron has written a novel (!!!). The Yellow Kitchen will be published by Simon & Schuster on 7th July 2022 and you can pre-order your copy from your favourite bookshops and retailers! Recommendations from today's episode:Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May JohnsonSubstack: dinner document by Rebecca May JohnsonThe Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Alice B. Toklas Look Here by Ana KinsellaMarcella Hazan's cookbooksMcGee on Food and Cooking: an Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture by Harold McGeeOlia Hercules' salo recipe from Summer Kitchens400 Ricette della Cucina Piacentina cookbook edited by Carmen Artocchini‘My Life is not my own. I eat, breathe and sleep this': the single mother who has fed 100,000 neighbours as published in The Guardian Cookery classes at Bottega Caruso in MargateFranchi: seeds of ItalyThe Language of Food by Annabel Abbs

Adrian Hardingham from Unity Books Wellington reviews reviews The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (translated by Philip Boehm). Published by Pushkin Press

Adrian Hardingham from Unity Books Wellington reviews reviews The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (translated by Philip Boehm). Published by Pushkin Press

Louise and Virginia have been reading some small but gripping books that have been translated into English; perhaps the ultimate type of ‘own voices' reading. By complete coincidence they ended up in the same parts of the world.Books:Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras and translated by Simon Lesser. 2021, Verso.People Like Them: A Novel by Samira Sedira and translated by Lara Vergnaud. 2020, Raven BooksMadonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali and translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe. 1943, Other Press.At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis. 2018, Pushkin Press.Podcasts:ABC Nature TrackThe DropoutIn Writing with Hattie CrisellCinefest Oz Films:The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly JohnsonNitram

We're thrilled to bring you this new episode featuring Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin - a brilliant coming-of-age page-turner about the complications of sibling relationships and the trauma of family secrets. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer (yum!). But by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut that thrillingly unravels into tragedy. Dinner Party: A Tragedy is published 16th September by indie publisher Pushkin Press. We recommend buying from your local indie or you can get it from our shop at Bookshop.org. 'Sarah Gilmartin is a natural writer: she gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is easy, fluent and charged with insight.' Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author of THE GATHERING Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mairi chats to Daniel Seton, Commissioning Editor at Pushkin Press about crime fiction in the UK and what we can learn from other cultures, particularly Japan, as well as Agatha Christie, what makes a good book, genre boundaries and books narrated by balloons.  Mairi's novel, Self Help for Serial Killers:  Let Your Creativity Bloom, is also part of the Capital Crime and Amazon New Voices Award, where the public can vote on their fave opening chapters of as yet unpublished authors.  If you'd like to investigate and consider voting for Self Help for Serial Killers, there is more information here (you have to scroll a lot for this one).  https://www.capitalcrime.org/new-voices-awards-entry/?fbclid=IwAR2F_Jqkr0zqrXCuUJyGQCpOFmSYnjurQPtcIb0g8bC3SgBi4W9BFePHucQ#:~:text=Capital%20Crime%20is%20running%20an%20exciting%20new%20competition%2C,crime%2C%20mystery%20or%20thriller%20novel%20to%20our%20system

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Sarah Gilmartin about her story Bring it home, which was published in NUMBER 81, the Winter 2020 issue of The Dublin Review. Sarah Gilmartin is a writer from Limerick. Her stories have been listed for the Seán Ó Faoláin, New Irish Writing, and Francis MacManus Awards. She received a Literary Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in both 2020 and 2021. Her debut novel Dinner Party will be published by Pushkin Press in September 2021. This podcast was recorded in May 2021.

In need of a new murder mystery podcast? We were too when we found Caroline Crampton's incredible Shedunnit, a series of essay-like journeys through the mystique and history of the mystery genre. Coincidentally, Caroline's own journey took her to Japan and the Honkaku, or 'traditional' school of murder mystery at the same time we were, and we are super excited to present to you this engaging episode about it here on Death of the Reader. You'll come away a wiser reader with every episode of Shedunnit; this one features a discussion with On Nomoto, the grandson of Seishi Yokomizo, and Daniel Seton, the powerhouse behind Pushkin Press' Pushkin Vertigo imprint, both of whom were instrumental in bringing stories like The Honjin Murders to English speakers. Our enormous thanks to Caroline for talking with us, and letting us feature this fantastic episode here on your Murder Mystery World Tour.

Exploring the thriving tradition of classic Japanese whodunnits. Thanks to my guests, On Nomoto, grandson of honkaku writer Seishi Yokomizo, and Daniel Seton, commissioning editor at Pushkin Press. No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below. Sources and further information: — The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo — "The Spider" by Koga Saburo, translated by Ho-Ling Wong and John Pugmire — Foreign Bodies edited by Martin Edwards — The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo — The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo — The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shiimada —“A Brief Introduction To Honkaku And Shin Honkaku Mysteries” by Tara Cheesman —“The King Of The Golden Age Crime Novel In Japan: Seishi Yokomizo” by Paul French — Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 by Satoru Saito — “Inheriting the Nation: Seishi Yokomizo’s Kindaichi Novels” by Chiho Nakagawa in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 32, Number 2, Fall 2014, pp. 90–99 — Interview with translater Louise Heal Kawai on the In GAD We Trust podcast NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thefirstwhodunnittranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.

On Season 2, Episode 1 of the Adoptee Thoughts Podcast, Nicole Chung, and host, Melissa Guida-Richards discuss their experience with losing a loved one as an adoptee, as well as their writing process. Nicole shares some of her story as an adoptee, and advice for adoptees looking to get into writing. Nicole’s Bio: Nicole Chung is the author of the nationally bestselling memoir All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, US; Pushkin Press, UK). Named a Best Book of the Year by two dozen publications, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and an official Junior Library Guild Selection. Chung’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, GQ, TIME, Longreads, and Vulture, among others, and she also writes a weekly Care and Feeding advice column for Slate. She is the editor-in-chief of the National Magazine Award-winning Catapult magazine and the former managing editor of The Toast. Her next book is forthcoming from Ecco Books/HarperCollins. Find Nicole on Twitter: @nicolesjchung & Instagram: @nicolesjchung_________ To read more of the work by your host Melissa Guida-Richards, check out guida-richards.com, or the podcast's website adopteethoughts.com. Social:TwitterInstagramFacebook Mailing List: Subscribe Here

Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, author The Eighth Girl, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Maxine is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and training psychotherapist. She lectures on trauma, gender and sexuality, clinical dissociation, and attachment theory at The Bowlby Centre and was awarded the Jafar Kareem Bursary for her work supporting people from ethnic minorities experiencing isolation and mental health problems. Originally trained in the arts, she previously worked as a creative director for ten years at Condé Nast, The Sunday Times, and The Times (London). The Eighth Girl, is her debut novel, published earlier this year in the U.S. with William Morrow and in the U.K. March 2021, with Pushkin Vertigo, Pushkin Press. The Eighth Girl has also been optioned for film by Netflix (Aggregate) with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan. Links Maxine Mei-Fung Chung’s Website & Books Robert Justice’s Books Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Publishing classics requires a special acuity. What makes a classic? Pushkin Press focuses on modern classics, mostly translated works. How did you discover your most successful no-longer-forgotten comeback author, Stefan Zweig? What type of person do you think makes a very good translator? Hear Adam Freudenheim, publisher & MD of Pushkin Press, answer these questions and give unexpected insights as he talks about his love of literature and publishing translations.   Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such

Eva Meijer, writer and philosopher, joins Kate Griffin on the pod to discuss her work. Topics range from understanding animal languages to writing routines and redrafting. Meanwhile, Steph has been back to Dragon Hall as lockdown restrictions are eased in the UK, and everyone is getting excited about The Book Club. If you'd like to read Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke with the rest of us, you can find out more here: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/book-club-bluebird-bluebird-by-attica-locke/ To join the Discord discussions click here: https://discord.gg/3G39dRW Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna. Also check out this interview with Eva in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/13/of-course-animals-speak-eva-meijer-on-how-to-communicate-with-our-fellow-beasts Eva Meijer is an author, artist, singer, songwriter and philosopher. Her non-fiction study on animal communication, Animal Languages, was translated to English in 2019. Bird Cottage was her first novel to appear in English, translated by Antoinette Fawcett and published by Pushkin Press. It has been nominated for the BNG and Libris prizes in the Netherlands and is being translated into several languages. Music by Bennet Maples.

We spend the hour with poet and editor of a collection of poems and stories from the ancient to the modern on the subject of exile, Heart of a Stranger (2019, Pushkin Press).

Tracee Ellis Ross is the daughter of Diana Ross and in 2017 became the first African-American woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Comedy since 1983, for her sitcom Black-ish. She tells us about her new film The High Note, in which she plays a pop superstar looking to reinvigorate her career. Pushkin Press has partnered with Walter Iuzzolino from Channel 4’s ‘Walter Presents’ on a collaboration of timeless novels with strong international appeal. Walter discusses the first title in the partnership, The Mystery of Henri Pick by French writer David Foenkinos, about the importance of curatorship in a global world of mass content and his ambition to promote his series of foreign language novels into must-haves as compelling as box sets. London’s Southbank Centre says it’s at risk of closure until at least April 2021 due to the economic impact of the Coronavirus, and is calling on the Government to help the cultural sector survive. To discuss the extent of the crisis facing the organisation and the arts, Kirsty is joined by Southbank Centre CEO, Elaine Bedell. As part of Radio 4’s support for students in lockdown we’ve been asking writers to record new introductions to some of the books on the GCSE English literature syllabus. Today we’re going to hear from Sara Collins who won the 2019 Costa First Novel Award for The Confessions of Frannie Langton. She’s sharing her thoughts on Frankenstein by the English author Mary Shelley. Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Jerome Weatherald Studio Manager Duncan Hannant

After bringing the best of world TV to UK screens with Walter Presents, Walter Iuzzolino is now doing the same with literature in conjunction with Pushkin Press. We spoke to him from lockdown in London about why it's so important to get cultural input from around the globe and to find out more about the first book in the series with translator Sam Taylor, who speaks to us from his home in the US to help us understand more about the process of translating from one language to another. Books mentioned: The Mystery of Henri Pick, The Second Life of Inspector Canessa, HHhH, In Paris With You.

"There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"   In this episode Rachel is joined by Shane Jenkins to discuss the poetry of T.S. Eliot and the themes of time on his poetry, as well as his place in the modernist movement, the impact of his conversion on his writing, and the ways we can approach his writing today.   Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Shane Jenkins Follow us on social media: @seekingwatson @shanekins Follow the podcast on Instagram: @riskingenchantmentpodcast Find out more at www.rachelsherlock.com Works Mentioned Talk Bhride Podcast "Influences: The Power of T.S. Eliot" by Seamus Heaney The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Word on Fire Institute Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" Burnt Norton by T.S. Eliot East Coker by T.S. Eliot The Dry Salvages by T.S. Eliot Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis The Confessions by St. Augustine A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis "G. K. Chesterton & T. S. Eliot: Friends or Enemies?" by Joseph Pearce Tradition and the Individual Talent by T.S. Eliot Thoughts After Lambeth by T.S. Eliot Chorus from the Rock by T.S. Eliot   Things We're Enjoying at the Moment Shane: Portal of the Mystery of Hope by Charles Peguy Rachel: The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt, Pushkin Press

Su figura literaria es quizá el secreto a voces mejor guardado de literatura latinoamericana. Se trata del colombiano Tomás González cuyas precisas y breves novelas parecen educarnos sobre como vivir ética y estoicamente en un mundo sin Dios ni Estado. Esta es una conversación de nuestro archivo cuando el novelista pasó por Londres con motivo de la publicación, a manos de la inigualable Pushkin Press, de su primera novela al idioma inglés: In The Beginning Was The Sea -Primero estaba el mar- en una traducción magistral de Frank Wynne. Con Juan Toledo y Jorge Ramírez El catálogo de pushkinpress La reseña de The Guardian: In The Beginning Was The Sea Y la de Perro Negro: Tomás Gonzáles

Tonke Dragt is een van de bekendste en meest gelezen Nederlandse (kinderboeken)schrijvers. Ze schreef zowel over de geschiedenis als over de toekomst. In het eerste deel van aflevering 23, zie de post hieronder, spraken kinderboekrecensenten Jaap Friso (JaapLeest.nl) en Bas Maliepaard (Trouw) vooral met de schrijfster over haar toekomstromans, die recentelijk zijn herdrukt. In het tweede deel gaat het onder meer over de Engelse vertaling van 'De brief voor de koning' (Leopold 10+) en de tv-serie die Netflix naar het boek heeft gemaakt. Verwijzingen in deze afleveringSchrijver Rindert Kromhout vertelt over een affaire rond het boekje 'Het verloren paspoort' van Els Pelgrom uit 1982. De hele oplage werd door justitie in beslag genomen, omdat de uitgave teveel op een echt paspoort zou lijken. Deze ‘paspoortaffaire’ is uitgebreid beschreven op de website van het Literatuurmuseum. Tonke vertelt nog steeds kinderboeken te lezen, zoals 'Winterhuis Hotel' van Ben Guterson (Leopold 10+, vertaling: Imme Dros). Het nieuwe deel heet ‘De geheimen van Winterhuis Hotel’ (Leopold 10+).Pas in 2013 werd 'De brief voor de koning' door Laura Watkinson in het Engels vertaald als 'The Letter for the King' en uitgegeven bij Pushkin Press. Het boek kreeg lovende besprekingen, onder meer in The Guardian. In een interview van dezelfde krant met Tonke zegt de schrijfster dat ze is geboren als sprookjesverteller. Vertaalster Laura Watkinson was te gast in de zevende aflevering van De Grote Vriendelijke Podcast. In die aflevering is Tonke ook even te horen. Laura vertaalde ook 'Geheimen van het Wilde Woud ('The Secrets of the Wild Wood'), 'De Zevensprong' ('The Song of Seven') en 'De goudsmid en de meesterdief' (The Goldsmith and the Master Thief'), dat vroeger 'Verhalen van de tweelingbroers' heette. ‘De torens van februari’ (Leopold 14+), waarvan Tonke zegt dat ze het ‘moest’ schrijven, is een anoniem dagboek, waarin de schrikkeldag een belangrijke rol speelt. Dit jaar (2020) kent weer een schrikkeldag: 29 februari. Netflix wil nog niet prijs geven wanneer de release van de zesdelige serie 'The Letter for the King' is, maar de verwachting dat hij voor de zomer van 2020 wordt gelanceerd. De Nederlandse regisseur heet Paul Strijbits en de rol van Tiuri wordt gespeeld door de Britse acteur Amir Wilson (links). Over de rest van de cast kun je hier lezen. 'De brief voor de koning' werd eerder verfilmd door regisseur Pieter Verhoeff. De Facebook Fangroep van Tonke Dragt is hier te vinden.

Abdellatif Laâbi is a leading Moroccan poet who writes in French. In 1966 he helped found the important artistic journal 'Souffles', in 1972 the journal was banned and in 1974 Laâbi was imprisoned for 8 years for "crimes of opinion" for his political beliefs and his writings. After his release in 1985, he moved to France where he still lives in exile. His work was translated for the PTC by André Naffis-Sahely, who recently edited 'The Heart of a Stranger' an anthology of exile literature for Pushkin Press: www.pushkinpress.com/product/the-he…of-a-stranger/ The dual-language chapbook introducing the poetry of Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by André Naffis-Sahely can be brought from the PTC website: www.poetrytranslation.org/shop/abdella…abi-chapbook This is part of our weekly the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week. Please take a moment to rate and review this podcast on iTunes or wherever you download.

Hazel, Jennie and host Philippa explore the art of travel writing with the acclaimed author and biographer Sara Wheeler, and Barnaby Rogerson of the well-loved independent publisher Eland Books. Buckle-up and join us on an audio adventure that takes in a coach trip around England, an Antarctic sojourn, a hairy incident involving a Victorian lady and her trusty tweed skirt and a journey across Russia in the footprints of its literary greats, with nods to Bruce Chatwin, Isabella Bird, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn and Patrick Leigh Fermor along the way. And to bring us back down to earth, there’s the usual round-up of news from back home in Hoxton Square and plenty of recommendations for reading off the beaten track. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 01 seconds) Books Mentioned Slightly Foxed Issue 62 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-62-published-1-june-2019/) (2:05) The Fountain Overflows (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/rebecca-west-the-fountain-overflows/) , Volume I of Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’ (2:36) Something Wholesale (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/something-wholesale-no-41/) , Eric Newby (4:20) Love and War in the Apennines (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eric-newby-love-and-war-in-the-apennines/) , Eric Newby (4:24) Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-terra-incognita/) , Sara Wheeler (8:00) A Dragon Apparent (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/norman-lewis-dragon-apparent/) , Norman Lewis (11:49) In Patagonia (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/bruce-chatwin-in-patagonia/) , Bruce Chatwin. Sara Wheeler abbreviates the opening line, which reads in full: ‘In my grandmother’s dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet was a piece of skin.’ (18:39) Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-growing/) and The Village in the Jungle (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-village-in-the-jungle/) , Leonard Woolf (19:50) Travels with Charley (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/steinbeck-travels-with-charley/) , John Steinbeck (20:35) Semi Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/julian-evans/semi-invisible-man/9780330427081) , Julian Evans (21:09) Naples ‘44 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/naples-44-norman-lewis/) , Norman Lewis (21:31) Passage to Juneau (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-raban-passage-to-juneau/) , Jonathan Raban (22:24) Mud and Stars (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-mud-and-stars/) , Sara Wheeler, published 4 July 2019 (23:27) The Saddest Pleasure (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/moritz-thomsen-saddest-pleasure/) , Moritz Thomsen (24:29) A Time of Gifts (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-time-gifts-adventures-harriet/) and Between the Woods and the Water (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-woods-water-adventures-harriet/) , Patrick Leigh Fermor (25:16) Arabs (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/tim-mackintosh-smith-arabs/) , Tim Mackintosh-Smith (33:32) Lost in Translation (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eva-hoffman-lost-translation/) , Eva Hoffman (34:31) A Woman in the Polar Night, Christiane Ritter is currently out of print. The edition with an introduction by Sara Wheeler will be published by Pushkin Press (https://www.pushkinpress.com/) in November 2019 (35:52) Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations Mood Music (https://foxedquarterly.com/rebecca-west-saga-of-the-century-literary-review/) , Rebecca Willis on Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’, Issue 62 (2:22) Ire and Irritability (https://foxedquarterly.com/jane-austen-sense-and-sensibility-literary-review/) , Pauline Melville on Sense and Sensibility, Issue 62 (2:56)  Travelling Fearlessly (https://foxedquarterly.com/colin-thubron-travel-writing-literary-review/) , Maggie Fergusson interviews Colin Thubron in Issue 58 (20:26) A Great Adventure (https://foxedquarterly.com/patrick-leigh-fermor-great-adventure/) , Andy Merrills on Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, Issue 38 (25:24) In Search of Home (https://foxedquarterly.com/eva-hoffman-lost-translation-literary-review/) , Sue Gee on Lost in Translation in Issue 55 (34:31) Other Links   The Slightly Foxed Podcast website page of episodes and reviews (https://foxedquarterly.com/category/podcast/) (1:00) Independent Bookshop Week 2019 (https://indiebookshopweek.org.uk/) , 15-22 June. Follow #IndieBookshopWeek and @booksaremybag online (3:38) Eland Books (https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/) (11:39) Katy MacMillan-Scott, Adventures for Harriet (https://www.adventuresforharriet.co.uk/) : Travelling from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (31:45) Lodestars Anthology (https://www.lodestarsanthology.co.uk/) , selected issues available to buy from Slightly Foxed here (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/lodestars-anthology-travel-magazine/) (37:41) Rucksack Magazine (https://rucksackmag.com/) (37:58) Music and sound effects Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Lost Memories courtesy of FreeSfx.co.uk (http://www.freesfx.co.uk) The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Theirs was a relationship born out of war and exile. His was the first ever account for English readers of what life was really like in prewar and then war torn Spain. We spoke candidly and at length to the literary agent and book publisher Uli Rushby Smith, who lived with Arturo Barea and his polyglot and activist wife, Ilsa Barea, in a cottage withouth electricity in the English country side. We talked of the curious origins of The Forging of a Rebel, Arturo's short stories, of making England their home and his work at the BBC World Service. Also of their marriage and working relationship, Arturo's and Ilsa's legacy, of Pushkin Press plus the realities of Austrian exiles during the Second World War and life in an Austrian village during the Russian invasion. A memorable and warm evening at her house in north London. With Uli Rushby Smith, Eugene Ludlow, Jorge Ramírez and Juan Toledo

Voor het eerst een vertaler te gast in De Grote Vriendelijke Podcast! De Britse Laura Watkinson woont sinds 2003 in Amsterdam en vertaalt Nederlandse (jeugd)literatuur in het Engels. Ze was onder meer mede verantwoordelijk voor het grote succes van 'The Letter for the King' (De brief voor de koning) van Tonke Dragt in Groot-Brittannië. In deze zevende aflevering van de GVP praten kinderboekrecensenten Jaap Friso (JaapLeest.nl) en Bas Maliepaard (Trouw) met haar over haar vertaalwerk en specifiek over haar vertalingen van 'Lampie and the Children of the Sea' ('Lampje') van Annet Schaap, 'Winter in Wartime' ('Oorlogswinter') van Jan Terlouw en 'The Song of Seven' ('De Zevensprong') van Tonke Dragt. Bijzondere verrassing: deze auteurs namen vooraf een boodschap voor Laura op, die we haar in deze aflevering laten horen. Laura vertaalde deze boeken in opdracht van Pushkin Press. De Engelstalige edities zijn ook bij veel Nederlandse (kinder)boekwinkels te koop of daar te bestellen. 'Lampie and the Children of the Sea' verschijnt 30 mei 2019.Verwijzingen in deze aflevering Met Annet Schaap spraken we in onze Eindejaarspodcast over de Engelse (en Duitse) titel van 'Lampje', dat kun je hier terugluisteren. Jaap zegt in de aflevering dat 'De brief voor de koning' een van de meest vertaalde Nederlandse kinderboeken is. Het Nederlands Letterenfonds houdt alle vertalingen bij en meldde ons dat het boek op de tweede plek staat met 43 vertalingen (na 'Minoes' van Annie M.G. Schmidt [49]). 'Oorlogswinter' van Jan Terlouw staat met 18 vertalingen op de veertiende plek. Tonke Dragt vraagt Laura in de uitzending of ze haar boek 'Torenhoog en mijlenbreed' zou willen vertalen, waarvan de titel is ontleend aan deze regels uit het Engelse gedicht 'Travel' van Robert Louis Stevenson: "Where are forests hot as fire/ Wide as England, tall as a spire." Laura werkt nu aan de vertaling van 'Verhalen van de tweelingbroers' van Tonke Dragt, dat onlangs onder een nieuwe titel in het Nederlands verscheen: 'De goudsmid en de meesterdief' (Leopold, 10+). Laura bracht als Parel haar eerste druk mee van 'The Little White Horse' van Elizabeth Goudge, uit 1946. Hierbij de beloofde foto's: Besproken boekenIn deze aflevering bespreken Jaap en Bas vier boeken: 'De oorlog die mijn leven redde' (de Parel van Janneke Schotveld in aflevering 3 van de GVP) en het vervolg 'De oorlog die ik eindelijk won' van Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (KokBoekencentrum, 10+, vertaling: Ernst Bergboer) en uit de kartonboekenserie 'BabyLit' de delen 'Trots & vooroordeel. Een mini Jane Austen' en 'Alice in Wonderland. Een mini Lewis Carroll' van Jennifer Adams (Karmijn/Oogappel, 1+, vertaling: onbekend, illustraties: Alison Oliver). Hier vind je een overzicht van alle delen die in het Engels beschikbaar zijn. Ook bespraken Jaap en Bas het initiatief Queerboeken.nl van COC en De Leescoalitie, een online catalogus met boeken voor jongeren over LHBTI-personages. Bas koos als favoriet van die site 'Het midden van de wereld' van Andreas Steinhöfel (Lemniscaat, 15+, vertaling: Tjalling Bos). Jaap deed aan redacteur Pim Lammers de suggestie om werk van Peter Pohl op te nemen en 'De bijenkoningin' van Veronica Hazelhoff (Querido, 14+).GVP-opname 31 maart 2019 bijwonenDe volgende aflevering van De Grote Vriendelijke Podcast nemen we op tijdens het audiofestival 'Oorzaken' in het Vlaams cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. Deze opnames zijn vrij toegankelijk, dus kom vooral langs! We starten op zondag 31 maart 2019 om 10:00u met de opname, dus wees op tijd aanwezig. Als je de rest van het festival wilt bezoeken, moet je daarvoor een kaartje kopen, maar de 'Studio Oorzaken', waar wij opnemen, is gratis te bezoeken. Meer informatie vind je op de website van het festival. Wie onze gast is, maken we later via social media bekend. Leuk als je via het Facebook-event laat weten of je komt!

The great Jorge Luis Borges once said that literature in English was infinite. Assuming he was right implies that English readers do not need to venture beyond their language to enjoy the telling of tales. A bit more than 20 years ago a small publishing house in UK decided to bet against it. Pushkin Press is the highly reputable London based editorial house dedicated to the difficult task of bringing authors in translation to the Anglo-speaking reader. We conversed candidly with its Managing Director and owner, Adam Freudenheim, about how big is his gamble in bringing almost unknown authors into English. We talked about the dictatorship of the novel, the global appeal of children literature, the fate of books and the joy of translating and publishing Japanese authors. With Jorge Ramírez y Juan Toledo Pushkin Press Authors

Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books including The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!, and You Were Never Really Here, all published by Pushkin Press. He also created the hit HBO comedy Bored to Death, starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, and Blunt Talk, starring Patrick Stewart. He has fought in two amateur boxing matches as "The Herring Wonder". He lives in Los Angeles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far, in addition to a collection of stories Karate Chop, and a novella Minna needs rehearsal space, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark. Her latest novel is Mirror, Shoulder, Signal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Adam Freudenheim took over Pushkin Press in 2012, he did so with the aim to start a imprint that focused on children’s books in translation – something he felt passionately about after seeking new and inspiring titles for his own children. That imprint is now something that sets Pushkin apart from other publishers, but with an impressive list of literary titles translated from over twenty-four languages, children’s lit isn’t the only thing that makes Pushkin a significant presence in the realm of translation. In this, the final episode of Season 1 of our Think in Translation podcast, Adam discusses the translations that most excite him, how he and his colleagues at Pushkin discover new works of translation, and what he sees as a key value of translated literature: how it works to connect us with new voices and ideas. He also remarks on translated fiction’s growing popularity. Indeed, translation is currently having a moment, and we predict a bright future! The Think in Translation podcast is a literary podcast series featuring international authors, translators, publishers and booksellers, with the aim of making translated books accessible to all readers. Thank you to everyone who has listened to our first season! We are hoping to release Season Two sometime in autumn 2018. For updates please subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on Twitter or Facebook, or check our website at vagabondvoices.co.uk. This podcast is brought to you by Vagabond Voices, an independent literary publisher of novels, poems and polemics in English and translation. Take a look at our catalogue of translated books available to purchase online: vagabondvoices.co.uk/bookshop-changelings/   Twitter: @VagabondVoices
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Last week we featured Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s latest book, Waking Lions. This week, host Marcela Sulak reads from Gundar-Goshen’s first novel, the Sapir Prize-winning One Night, Markovitch. The novel opens on the eve of World War II, with a group of young men setting out from Mandate Palestine to participate in fictitious marriages with Jewish girls who wish to escape Europe and reach the Jewish homeland, then under British rule. "He felt Sonya’s entrance into the room before he saw her, because over the last six weeks he had learned to pick out the smell of oranges even on a busy street. Therefore he had several seconds to compose himself before turning around and facing her in her ordinary blue dress, part of a sweet routine that was not his." Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982, and she has already achieved great success in writing for television and film. Text: One Night, Markovitch, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Translated by Sondra Silverston. Pushkin Press, 2015. Further reading: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Translated by Sondra Silverston. Pushkin Press, 2016. Music: Khavurat Renanim - Shir HaNamal Benny Goodman - Wang Wang Blues Benny Goodman - One O'Clock Jump Shepheard's Hotel Jazz Orchestra - Where Or When Fred Astaire - Cheek To Cheek

Host Marcela Sulak reads from Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's novel Waking Lions, published in English translation in March 2016. The opening of the novel describes the moment when Dr. Eitan Green, who has just come off a 19-hour shift at Beer Sheva Hospital, has an accident... "He is thinking that the moon is the most beautiful he has ever seen when he hits the man. For the first moment after he hits him he’s still thinking about the moon, and then he suddenly stops, like a candle that has been blown out." Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, and Waking Lions is her second novel. Text: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Translated by Sondra Silverston. Pushkin Press, 2016. Further reading: One Night, Markovitch, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Translated by Sondra Silverston. Pushkin Press, 2015. Music: Mike Patton - Contrapositive (The Solitude of Prime Numbers OST) Mike Patton - Weight of Consequences (The Solitude of Prime Numbers OST) Ennio Morricone - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri (Cuore Di Mamma OST)

The Colombian novelist Tomas Gonzalez has been writing for three decades, but has only been read this year by an English-speaking audience after his debut, In the Beginning Was the Sea, was published by the wonderful Pushkin Press. ----more----Terse but lyrical, the novel was inspired by the murder of his brother Juan, who had swapped fast-living in Bogota for a dream of rural self-sufficiency on the Colombian coast. Juan, or J in the novel, was killed by a man he hired to manage the farm he shared with his girlfriend, Elena. The novel was Gonzalez's attempt to understand what happened and ponder its meaning against a larger universe at once beautiful, terrifying and indifferent to the human drama. We met in the slightly downbeat bar of Gonzalez's Kings Cross hotel. It was a peculiar venue to  discuss matters at once melancholy and inspirational. We were interrupted, variously, by a loud fan, a woman filling a metal dog bowl full of food, the ensuing dog skittering on its claws towards its lunch, several workmen and a chatty receptionist. Enjoy the atmosphere.In part one we covered: how to discuss debut novels that are 30 years oldthe true story behind the noveldreams of escape and escaping the rat racethe murder of Gonzalez's brother JuanGonzalez's encounter with his brother's murdererrevenge, violence and artwhy he wrote the novelthe challenge of turning real-life tragedy into artthe lure of escape and escapismideas of successhow Gonzalez wrote the novelGonzalez the barman and making writing paydrinking and literaturemoving to MiamiMy review of In the Beginning was the Sea in the Independent is: here.

Su figura literaria es quizá el secreto a voces mejor guardado de literatura latinoamericana. Se trata del colombiano Tomás González cuyas precisas y breves novelas parecen educarnos sobre como vivir ética y estoicamente en un mundo sin Dios ni Estado. Conversamos con él a su paso por Londres con motivo de la publicación, a manos de la inigualable Pushkin Press, de su primera novela al idioma inglés: In The Beginning Was The Sea Presentadores: Juan Toledo y Jorge Ramírez Enlaces:  http://pushkinpress.com/ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/in-the-beginning-was-the-sea-tomas-gonzalez-review-novel

Libby Purves meets nature writer Richard Mabey; Gladys Hudgell and Eva Rodwell who worked at the Tate & Lyle sugar factory in East London; software programmer turned author Ellen Ullman; and artist Pedro Reyes. Richard Mabey is a nature writer. He is the author of some thirty books including Food for Free, Weeds and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize. In his new book, Turned Out Nice Again, he weaves together science, art and memory to illuminate our pre-occupation with the weather. Turned Out Nice Again - Living with the Weather is published by Profile Books. Gladys Hudgell and Eva Rodwell worked at the Tate and Lyle factory in East London in the early fifties. Girls who worked there were known as 'sugar girls'. The Sugar Girls - Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate and Lyle's East End,is published by Harper Collins. The exhibition Sugar Girls: Working Women of Newham is currently on tour. Ellen Ullman is a former software programmer turned author. Her memoir, Close To The Machine, tells of her life as a software programmer in San Francisco during the formative years of Silicon Valley. Close To The Machine is published by Pushkin Press. Her latest novel, By Blood, is published by Pushkin Press. Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist whose new show, Disarm, highlights the drug and gun crime crisis in Mexico. He transforms firearms, confiscated by the Mexican government, into an orchestra of fully-workable musical instruments. He has collaborated with John Coxon of Spiritualized to create a limited edition vinyl record as part of his installation. Disarm is at the Lisson Gallery, Bell Street, London NW1. Producer: Annette Wells.