Podcast appearances and mentions of Vernon God Little

What exactly is “a Booker book”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream titles. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's debut, Vernon God Little, was awarded the prize. In this episode, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner. In this episode, Jo and James talk about: Their childhood reading inspirations A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of Vernon God Little The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win The author behind the novel, DBC Pierre Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years after its release Books to read after reading Vernon God Little Books and authors discussed in this episode: Matilda by Roald Dahl Rudyard Kipling Charles Dickens Vladimir Nabokov Virginia Woolf The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The ‘His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman The Moomins books by Tove Jansson Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller Brick Lane by Monica Ali Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan Life of Pi by Yann Martel Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Us by David Nicholls The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Philip Larkin A full transcript of the episode is available at our website. If you've got a problem you'd like some literary help with, email us at contactus@bookerprizefoundation.org using the subject line “The Booker Clinic”. Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DBC Pierre's Big Snake Little Snake is a characteristically freewheeling, riotous account of a couple of years the author lived in the Caribbean, spending his time, among other endeavours, conducting an inquiry into risk. It's also an extraordinarily fun book, yet with a deep seriousness at its core. Seeking to understand, as it does, how the world can be presented to us as fundamentally indifferent, while also being so clearly, and so often, unfair.Buy Big Snake, Little Snake here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781788169776/big-snake-little-snake-an-inquiry-into-risk*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*One of the nation's most uncompromising literary voices, DBC Pierre is author of the novels VERNON GOD LITTLE, LUDMILA'S BROKEN ENGLISH and LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND, plus the picture book for distracted adults PETIT MAL and the Hammer novella BREAKFAST WITH THE BORGIAS. The novel VERNON GOD LITTLE sold in 43 territories and won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award from University College Dublin. His ground-breaking new novel MEANWHILE IN DOPAMINE CITY was published by Faber & Faber in August2020 and is short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Shak Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Georgina Godwin speaks to Clare Conville, founder of literary agency Conville and Walsh. She also meets DBC Pierre, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Vernon God Little'. His latest work is ‘Big Snake Little Snake', an exploration of risk and gambling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Georgina Godwin speaks to Clare Conville, founder of literary agency Conville and Walsh. She also meets DBC Pierre, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Vernon God Little'. His latest work is ‘Big Snake Little Snake', an exploration of risk and gambling.

Simon-Anthony Rhoden (IG:@simonanthonyrhoden)(TW:@simonanthonyr) is currently playing Aaron Burr in Thomas Kail's Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh, he was Lola in Jerry Mitchell's Kinky Boots (Playful Productions); Jim Conley in Suzanne Emerson's Parade (One-Off Productions); Lance in Mark Finbow's Beauties Legacy at The Keeper's Daughter; Man in Matt Peover & Hannah Eidinow's If I Should Stay (Desmon O'Conner & Sarah-Louise Young); Devon in Chris Urch's Married to the Game at the Theatre 503; Ash in Anna Jordan's Marianne at Without a Paddle. While in training, he has also performed in several shows such as Hannah Eidinow's Man of Mode as Young Bellair; Aaron Mullen's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Fairy/Flute the Bellows Mender; Joseph Blatchley's Mechanical Piano as Gerasim Cusmic Petrin; John Baxter's Vernon God Little as Pastor Lassalle/Brian Large; Lyndsey Turner's The Grace of Mary Traverse as Mr Hardlong; Rodney Cottier's Revenger's Tragedy as Junior; Gari Jones' Gas Station Angel as Mr Entertainment/Dyfrig.

Simon-Anthony Rhoden (IG:@simonanthonyrhoden)(TW:@simonanthonyr) is currently playing Aaron Burr in Thomas Kail's Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh, he was Lola in Jerry Mitchell's Kinky Boots (Playful Productions); Jim Conley in Suzanne Emerson's Parade (One-Off Productions); Lance in Mark Finbow's Beauties Legacy at The Keeper's Daughter; Man in Matt Peover & Hannah Eidinow's If I Should Stay (Desmon O'Conner & Sarah-Louise Young); Devon in Chris Urch's Married to the Game at the Theatre 503; Ash in Anna Jordan's Marianne at Without a Paddle. While in training, he has also performed in several shows such as Hannah Eidinow's Man of Mode as Young Bellair; Aaron Mullen's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Fairy/Flute the Bellows Mender; Joseph Blatchley's Mechanical Piano as Gerasim Cusmic Petrin; John Baxter's Vernon God Little as Pastor Lassalle/Brian Large; Lyndsey Turner's The Grace of Mary Traverse as Mr Hardlong; Rodney Cottier's Revenger's Tragedy as Junior; Gari Jones' Gas Station Angel as Mr Entertainment/Dyfrig.

In Boekenweek trakteert de Boekenpodcast je elke dag op een speciale aflevering, waarin een presentator van NPO Radio 1 t een duo vormt met een schrijver. De Boekenweek heeft dit jaar als thema Tweestrijd en samen bespreken ze ieder twee boeken waar dit thema een rol speelt. De bekende formule blijft hetzelfde: je hoort welke boeken welke snaren hebben geraakt bij deze boekenliefhebbers. Emma Lesuis is alle afleveringen de host; ze begeleidt de gesprekken. Mieke van der Weij en Jan van Mersbergen bespreken: * Shuggie bain,  van Douglas Stuart * Wat scheelt eraan, van Sigrid Nunez *  Vernon God Little, van D.B.C. Pierre * Kokoro: de wegen van het hart, van Natsume Soseki

In this episode we speak with DBC Pierre, author of Vernon God Little (for which he won the Booker Prize in 2003), Ludmila's Broken English (2006), Lights Out in Wonderland (2010), Breakfast with the Borgias (2014) and most recently, Meanwhile in Dopamine City which was published in 2020.Pierre joined us fresh off a bout of working on a non-fiction work and we discussed how this writing differed from fiction, how constantly reworking sections is a gift that provides intimacy with the text rather than drudgery, the perils of using two columns per page in a novel, using lockdown as a chrysalis for the next chapter and much more besides.Meanwhile in Dopamine City is published by Faber - you can find out more here.You can find more about DBC Pierre, including his writing and some of the finest book-related merch we've seen in a long while, at his website: http://www.dbcpierre.com/Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloomJaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchanWe have a store page on Bookshop, where you can find our books, as well as those of previous guests: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/unsoundmethodsThanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/We are teaming up with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. With the current uncertainty in the world, why not check out their Literature in Lockdown page? : https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ies-virtual-community/literature-lockdown

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

Georgina Godwin talks to DBC Pierre, who won the Booker prize with his debut novel ‘Vernon God Little’. He has gone on to write five more books, including his latest: dystopian satire ‘Meanwhile in Dopamine City’. It is a darkly funny, brilliantly clever and utterly terrifying vision of technology in our near future

Joining me this episode for an online is journalist and author Dan Kaufman! Dan is a former newspaper journo and editor - who still occasionally writes columns for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He launched, ran and wrote the very popular Bar Zine before starting his own media training, writing and editing consultancy business. This year he has released his first novel, Drowning In The Shallows, a social satire poking fun at love, sex and masculinity set in the Sydney bar and nightlife scene. The pairings: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Ignatius J. Reilly is a 30-year-old medievalist who lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, penning his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relaying to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job. The many subplots that weave through this story are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. A true tragicomedy. This is Dan's favourite book of all time and so he felt that he should pair it with his favourite cocktail of all time - the Sazerac. Invented in New Orleans, where the book is set, this cocktail is complex and bitter, just like Ignatius. A perfect pairing indeed! Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre In the small town of Martirio, Texas, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little finds himself in deep trouble after his best friend Jesus kills sixteen of his classmates before committing suicide as he becomes the target of both vengeful townspeople in search of vengeance and justice and the media's thirst for sensation. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit. Dan would pair this story of escape to Mexico with a classic Margarita cocktail. Salty, tart and strong this drink definitely reflects its pair!

DBC Pierre Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honored. After winning the Whitbread First Novel Award the same year, he became the first writer to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book.The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

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DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in London. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the “DBC” stands for “Dirty But Clean”. “Pierre” was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name. Pierre was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction on 14 October 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little. He is the third Australian to be so honoured, although he has told the British press that he prefers to consider himself a Mexican. In an interview with the Guardian (U.K.), Pierre explains his varied upbringing:I grew up with a real sense of cultural homelessness…. I haven't been successful in fitting in anywhere. I clearly wasn't Mexican, although I could move in that culture as easily as anywhere. I'm a British national but wasn't quite from here; and I went to school with a lot of expat Americans…. There's nothing I love more than to just be part of something, for someone to pay you a hello.· www.dbcpierre.com· www.creativeprocess.info

In which the Idiots gab about DBC Pierre's Booker and Whitbread winning novel "Vernon God Little" - talk about why hamsters should have guns - why you should have guns on your teeth - how to survive the gas chamber - why you should respect Russia. Featuring Special Guest Experts Alabaman gun enthusiast Werner Climes and fellow American Ursuala You'reIn (Simone Belshaw). Hey! Come on to our live show on the 29th March! https://www.waterstones.com/events/faking-lit-podcast-presents-the-da-vinci-code/london-tottenham-court-road Outro Music: One of Us - Joan Osborne

Sejam bem-vindos, leitores e leitoras ao 30:MIN. Nesta edição, Vilto Reis e Jefferson Figueiredo irão compartilhar das suas experiências de ler em outros idiomas e também apresentarão dicas para aqueles que pretendem começar a praticar a leitura em línguas estrangeiras. O 30:MIN se mantém no ar pelo apoio dos Ouvintes Grupo Lista Negra do Paul Rabbit Recomendados (Romance) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (Cartas) The Hemingway Letters Project – The Hemingway Society (Romance) Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre (Jefferson Figueiredo) O jeito que a mídia quer que você pense: “Vernon God Little”, de DBC Pierre (Academia Española, 2007) Cien años de soledad – Gabriel García Márquez – Imagem (Academia Española, 2005) El Quijote – Miguel de Cervantes – Imagem (Academia Española, 2015) El Quijote – Miguel de Cervantes – Imagem

In his second This Writing Life podcast, DBC Pierre talks learning to write by remembering what he has read. For dialogue, he looked to Len Deighton. ----more---- After a discussion of how written speech differs from spoken speech, he moved towards: tell vs show: writing dialogue in Vernon God Little is Pierre an instinctive writer? 'I am going to speak differently to you than I will to the Queen or a child or an enemy' how flamenco on late night Spanish television helped Pierre find his voice in Release the Bats 'rocket fuel': Pierre's enthusiasm for writing and writers what stops Pierre writing? dog racing, writers and nature 'I am the black sheep in the family. It is my job to have lots of promise and not to fulfil it.' Pierre's father and family hierarchy did Pierre worry that analysing the creative process might wreck the creative process? Pierre on 'the century of neuropsychology' 'Nothing has changed in human nature in two and half million years' 'Our anger and conflict...drive us to write' does writing help? Part three to follow. 

Part one of DBC Pierre's interview chat with This Writing Life podcast starts in media res. With a fan blowing our hair in attractive fashion (apologies for the whoosh behind the voices), we talked on a lovely summer's day at a London hotel. Pierre was in town to launch his new book, Release the Bats, an exuberant, personal and inspiring writing guide, with hints of memoir. A call-to-pen with hints about his colourful life. ----more---- As the tape tolls, we are talking about talking about Will Carruthers' memoir, Playing the Bass with Three Hands: Pierre was to appear at an event with the former Spiritualized bassist that evening. After some meditation on the hotter aspects of being a bass player (some caution is advised), we meander via music, the composition of Pierre's Man Booker winning Vernon God Little, and Pierre: the frustrated rock star. From here we saunter to: Pierre's own music taste why Pierre doesn't listen to music: 'The music provides a soundtrack that makes the writing better than it is' why Pierre writes throughout the night Pierre's routine for writing Vernon God Little 'You can go crazy at night and let yourself fly' losing the plot and creating a plot: Pierre, licence and liminal spaces writing vs editing to plan or not to plan, that is the question... non-fiction vs fiction why write Release the Bats? Pierre on creative writing courses Part 2 of 4 to follow.

Harriett Gilbert talks to the hugely acclaimed writer DBC Pierre about his best-selling first novel Vernon God Little. An absurdly humorous look at the misadventures of a Texas teen named Vernon Little whose best friend has just killed 16 of their classmates and himself. In the wake of the tragedy, the townspeople seek both answers and vengeance; because Vernon was the killer's closest friend, he becomes the focus of their fury. Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotous and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. (Photo: DBC Pierre outside BBC Old Broadcasting House)

DBC Pierre tells the story of his friend Cox, who has inspired his writing. DBC Pierre was the surprise-outsider who won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for his debut novel Vernon God Little, a dark satire set in the aftermath of a Texas high school massacre published in 2003. He was born in 1961 in Reynella, Australia. He was brought up in Mexico and the UK, and now lives in County Leitrim, Ireland. He worked previously as a designer and an internationally published cartoonist. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

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O escritor e pesquisador da mídia Juremir Machado da Silva indica ao Café Colombo a leitura do romance Vernon God Little, de DBC Pierre.