Podcast appearances and mentions of rupert thomson

On this week's episode we're chatting about the best short books to start your year. Read this week: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner, The Employees by Olga Ravn, Come Closer by Sara Gran, Bewilderment by Richard Powers, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Saph's short books: Ti Amo by Hanne Orstavik, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, Helpmeet by Nabeen Ruthnum, and A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck. Joseph's short books: Happening by Annie Ernaux, Assembly by Natasha Brown, Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, Ice by Anna Kavan, Open Throat by Henry Hoke, and The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.This week's listener recommendation request comes from Patricia who is looking for historical fiction similar to The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell. Joseph recommends Secrecy by Rupert Thomson and Sapphire recommends Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, Still Life by Sarah Winman, and The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Also mentioned in this episode:Isabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester (LRB Podcast)Consumed Future Spewed Up As Present by Lea Guldditte Hestelund Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Backlisted features Andy, John and Nicky chatting about short stories and the perennial appeal of the form to both writers and readers. This is a sequel to the first Winter Reading show we posted in January. Books under discussion include Wendy Erskine's new collection Dance Move; The Voice in My Ear by Frances Leviston; Rupert Thomson's memoir This Party's Got to Stop; Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories; A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders; and, ahead of our full episode on her novel South Riding, coming next week, Pavements at Anderby by Winifred Holtby. Andy reads a story entitled The Old Spot from the latter volume which has not been republished, anthologised or broadcast in full since its original appearance in 1937. (He promises to work on his Yorkshire accent in the meantime.) For more information visit backlisted.fm. Please support us and unlock bonus material at https://www.patreon.com/backlisted

Rupert Thomson is the author of thirteen highly acclaimed novels and an award winning memoir. He has spent timing living all around the world and his latest novel, Barcelona Dreaming, comes from the six years he spent living in the Spanish city. He talks to Robin and Josie about the book, the city and what it's like finding out one of your novels was on David Bowie's 100 Greatest Books of All Time List. As ever, extended edition available for Patreon supporters. Sign up at patreon.com/bookshambles

Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant.   Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fueled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Rupert Thomson's Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world's most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.   SPONSORED EPISODE:   This episode is brought to you by Rare Bird Lit and Unstoppable by Joshua M. Greene. _______________________________________________   Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

Georgina Godwin sits down with UK writer Rupert Thomson to discuss his life and career to date. In a long and fruitful writing career, Thomson has written 13 novels and a memoir, earning countless plaudits alongside awards such as the Writers' Guild non-fiction book of the year. As well as longer-form writing, his work has featured in publications such as the ‘Financial Times', ‘The Guardian', and the ‘London Review of Books'. His new novel ‘Barcelona Dreaming' is a story of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration and self-delusion set against a backdrop of the Catalonian capital.

Award winning British Author Rupert Thomson, whose latest novel is Barcelona Dreaming (Other Press).  This week’s Write the Book Prompt was inspired by my conversation with Rupert Thomson, who mentions Christine Schutt as an author who values "sentence magicians," those writers who particularly focus on sentence-level writing and revision to the benefit of their prose. Rupert refers to the way one excellent sentence can flow into the next, and how the best of these transitions will create tension. He mentions Mary Gaitskill, Joy Williams, Denis Johnson, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor as some of his own favorite "sentence magicians." This week, study your sentences. Are they doing all they can for your work? Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion.  Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro 680

This week we’re talking to author, Abigail Dean. Abi’s debut novel, Girl A, was published in January this year after a nine way auction resulted in her signing with Harper Collins. The book immediately became a Sunday Times best seller and received rave reviews across the industry and in the press. The book has been sold in over 30 territories and has already been optioned for television and film. Not bad for a debut! Abi’s Book Choices Orchard Book of Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean (https://bit.ly/372t43s) The Insult by Rupert Thomson (https://bit.ly/3q8NfEn) Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (https://bit.ly/36ZiuKc) Girl A by Abigail Dean (https://bit.ly/3d857v4) Mostly Books: www.mostly-books.co.uk Twitter: www.twitter.com/mostlyreading Instagram: www.instagram.com/mostlybooks_shop

Join Glenn van Zutphen as he speaks to Rupert Thomson, Head of Artistic Programs at the Arts House Limited about the details and highlights of AUAF 2020, the theme  "What If?" behind AUAF 2020 and how the festival aims to challenge traditional stereotypes of Street Art.  

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Insult by Rupert Thomson, a book that turns out to be two books in one, much to Greg's chagrin.

Über diese Bücher haben wir gesprochen: „Flexen“ hrsg. von Özlem Özgül Dündar, Mia Göhring, Ronya Othmann, Lea Sauer Verbrecher Verlag. Rupert Thomson (aus dem Englischen von Daniel Schreiber) „Never anyone but you“ Secession Verlag für Literatur. Katerina Poladjan „Hier sind Löwen“ S. Fischer. Marijke Schermer „Unwetter“ (aus dem Niederländischen von Hanni Ehlers) Kampa Verlag. Szczepan Twardoch „Wale und Nachtfalter“ (aus dem Polnischen von Olaf Kühl) Rowohlt. Jakuta Alikavazovic „Das Fortschreiten der Nacht“ (aus dem Französischen von Sabine Mehnert) Edition Nautilus. Anne Frank „Liebe Kitty“ (aus dem Niederländischen von Waltraut Hüsmert) Secession Verlag.

Invented in China over 2,500 years ago, the abstract strategy game Go is thought to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. In March 2016, the Go world champion Lee Sedol accepted a challenge to play against a computer program called AlphaGo. In the second game of a five game challenge series, the computer made a move no human in the game’s vast history would have considered. This move, Move 37, was not only unique and creative, it was beyond the minds of the world’s greatest Go players. In this latest episode of our Think Aloud podcast, presenter Harriet Fitch Little speaks with Southbank Centre's Performance and Dance Programmer, Rupert Thomson and actor and director Thomas Ryckewaert about their fascination with Move 37. They talk about what this moment meant for arts and society, and how ultimately it may shape our relationship with artificial intelligence. Also in this episode, we hear an interview with Patrick Tresset, an artist who has programmed robots to draw portraits for him. Working in Tresset’s own style of drawing, they act like an artist and has no idea how the drawings will turn out. Move 37 by Thomas Ryckewaert comes to Southbank Centre on 14 March, 2019. Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/2GGlvD0

Kjærleik, kjønnsidentitet og frigjering: Det er ikkje små tema Rupert Thomson tek opp i sin nyaste roman Never anyone but you, som er ei fiksjonalisert framstilling av liva til dei franske surrealistane Claude Cahun og Marcel Moore under den tyske okkupasjonen. Både som livspartnarar og som kunstnarar utfordra dei to førestillingane om kva kvinner, kunst og kjærleik kan vere. Thomson møter Mona B. Riise til ein samtale om liv, skrift og sjølvframstilling.

Love, gender identity and liberation – the issues addressed in Rupert Thomson’s latest novel Never anyone but you are not inconsiderable. This book is a fictionalised account of the life of French surrealists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore during the German occupation. Both as life partners and artists, they challenged preconceived ideas of what women, art and love can be. Thomson meets Mona B Riise for a conversation on life, writing and self-representation. In English

For national #AskACurator day, we poached the programmers at Southbank Centre to ask what goes on behind the scenes. Harriet Fitch Little is joined by; Bengi Unsal, Southbank Centre’s Senior Contemporary Music Programmer; Debo Amon, Literature Programmer; Rupert Thomson, Senior Programmer Performance & Dance and Jessica Cerasi, art curator and author of 'Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?'

Andrew Miller, a previous Costa winnter, discusses his astonishing, risky latest, 'The Crossing', which is a contemporary story told with the same dark wit and unflinching honesty as those earlier novels. Portraying a wonderfully difficult, seld-willed woman, coping with marriage, motherhood, tragedy and a heroic long distance solo yacht voyage, it asks uncomfortable questions of what society and indeed readers of novels, require of their women. Andrew will be in conversation with his friend, novelist Rupert Thomson

Rupert Thomson has long been a cult favourite among other novelists. 'Katherine Carlyle' is a vintage work with which to discover him. Swift and destabilising as any thriller, it portrays a young woman consumed with rage at her parents for having left her embryo on ice for eight years before her "second" birth, a heroine hell bent on revenge or self-destruction, or possibly both. Rupert will be talking with Andrew Miller

More than 30 of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2015 and the books they hope to get to in 2016! Guests include Derf Backderf, Anthea Bell, John Clute, Michael Dirda, Matt Farber, Jonathan Galassi, Brad Gooch, Langdon Hammer, Liz Hand, Jennifer Hayden, Ron Hogan, Dylan Horrocks, David Jaher, Kathe Koja, Jonathan Kranz, Peter Kuper, Lorenzo Mattotti, JD McClatchy, Scott McCloud, Michael Meyer, Dan Perkins (a.k.a Tom Tomorrow), Summer Pierre, Witold Rybczynski, Dmitry Samarov, Elizabeth Samet, Liesl Schillinger, Posy Simmonds, Levi Stahl, Rupert Thomson, Irvine Welsh, Warren Woodfin, Jim Woodring, Claudia Young, and me, Gil Roth! Check out their selections at our site!

Rupert Thomson returns to the show to talk about his new novel, Katherine Carlyle (Other Press, 2015). We also discuss IVF babies, researching "in character", keeping the reader's interest in a "road movie" novel, prioritizing imaginary facts above real facts, his pros & cons list for becoming a parent, the challenge of writing a novel about a father's fear for his child's safety, the long and short answer of "Where do you get your ideas?", how he got James Salter to blurb his new book, and more!

More than 30 of this year's podcast guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2014! Guests include Maria Alexander, Ashton Applewhite, David Baerwald, Nina Bunjevac, Roz Chast, Sarah Deming, Michael Dirda, Jules Feiffer, Mark Feltskog, Mary Fleener, Nathan Fox, Josh Alan Friedman, Richard Gehr, Paul Gravett, Sam Gross, Rachel Hadas, Kaz, Daniel Levine, Sara Lippmann, Merrill Markoe, Brett Martin, Mimi Pond, George Prochnik, Emily Raboteau, Jonathan Rose, Ron Rosenbaum, Dmitry Samarov, Seth, Katie Skelly, Ron Slate, Maya Stein, Rupert Thomson, and Frank Wilson! Check out the list of books at our site!

"When I first started out, what I liked was the unlikely image, the unlikely metaphor. What I like now is finding that simple sentence that captures something you haven't thought of before." Rupert Thomson joins us to talk about his new novel Secrecy (Other Press), a smart thriller set in 1690s Florence. We also talk about how to keep from hitting the reader over the head with research, how to learn archaic Italian curses, and more! "There is a kind of comfort in having a part of yourself that will never be known, can never be known, by others."

Rupert Thomson reads from his new book Secrecy and talks to Damian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Book Slam podcast bids goodbye to the year that was, with prose from Rupert Thomson (reading from his extraordinary memoir, 'This Party's Got To Stop'), poetry from Luke Wright, and post-folk poignancy from Hailey Beavis. We also meet Jesse Armstrong, half the comedy muscle flexed on the likes of 'The Thick Of It', 'Peep Show' and 'Four Lions', while acclaimed novelist and critic, Geoff Dyer, squares up to Angebot and the Book Slam Big 5. Elliott is laconic, Patrick bionic.

A conversation about the rise of cultural blogs, using one’s own life as novel source material and the genius of Rupert Thomson with literary blogger Maud Newton, founder of MaudNewton.com. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]