John Mitchinson
Staff Writer at Byline Times
Co-Host at Backlisted
Co-host of @BacklistedPod. Publisher of Boundless/@unbounders. Quondam writer for @qikipedia. Keeper of #pigs & #bees. He/him.
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1 week ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
The wonderful Nina Stibbe, award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation. When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of Leicester's foremost teenage poet and intellectual was an overnight success, eventually going on to become the best-selling British novel of the 1980s.
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3 weeks ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City; Scaffolding and Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir was also a prolific novelist. In The Image of Her—newly translated by Elkin after more than forty years— reads like a dispatch from the smooth surface of a life coming quietly undone.
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1 month ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time, joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written, newly translated by Julia Lovell.
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2 months ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny novel that has confounded and enchanted readers since its publication in 1995. Joining us to explore it is Chris Chibnall, award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and now novelist, best known for Broadchurch and Doctor Who, and author of the new detective novel Death at the White Hart.
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2 months ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Elif Shafak and Lyndsey Stonebridge join John and Andy for a discussion of the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the historian and philosopher whose books include The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianismand Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. This being Backlisted, we approach Arendt's formidable oeuvre and truly extraordinary biography via an intriguing route: her poetry.
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On today's @BacklistedPod we discuss a book that has the merciless clarity of May sunshine - Lauren Elkin joins @i_am_mill_i_am, @birchos and me to discuss her sparkling new translation of Les Belle Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir. https://t.co/0PwylTfsic
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