John Mitchinson
Staff Writer at Byline Times
Co-Host at Backlisted
Co-Founder of @unbounders. Co-host of https://t.co/pHbghNxTWT. Quondam writer for @qikipedia. Keeper of #pigs & #bees. He/him.
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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago |
bylinetimes.com | John Mitchinson
This article was originally published in the April 2025 print edition of Byline TimesTo stay ahead of the curve, subscribe nowWe’ve been poisoning ourselves with lead for at least the last 2,000 years. Lead is easy to extract from its various ores, easy to work, melts at a low temperature (which makes it perfect for solder), and doesn’t corrode in air or water.
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1 month ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Sybille Bedford's A Compass Error(1968) is a classic coming-of-age novel, a love story, a family saga and a study in psychological suspense rolled into one. Joining us to discuss it are the novelist Francesca Reece and Krista Cowman, Professor of History at the University of Leicester. The late Hilary Mantel described A Compass Error, Bedford's third novel, as 'a powerful and merciless book ... which visits on its heroine a series of humiliations that cut to the quick'.
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1 month ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
We explore Elia Kazan's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton and Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, amongst others.
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RT @i_am_mill_i_am: New @BacklistedPod! The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, with Chris Chibnall @johnmitchinson @birchos and me.🎹 https://t.c…
Today's @BacklistedPod offers a masterpiece of mounting anxiety and misdirection. Join guest Chris Chibnall in conversation with @i_am_mill_i_am @birchos and me as we get lost and found in the middle-European maze of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. https://t.co/7bJasInrXe
All the books discussed on the new @BacklistedPod (and all the other 235 episodes) are available from the Backlisted bookshop on @bookshop_org_UK. Buying there helps support Backlisted and indie bookshops in general. https://t.co/TsHKO5WR3j
