The Book Club

By: The Spectator
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  • Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.
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Episodes
  • Chris Ware: The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three

    Chris Ware: The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three
    Dec 18 2024
    My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Chris Ware — author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown, and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest living cartoonists.

    Chris's new book, The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, opens his sketchbooks for public consumption: a potentially painful move for an artist as self-conscious and perfectionist as Ware. He tells me a bit about the relationship between cartooning and architecture, what he's trying to do with his graphic novels, the importance of R Crumb and Art Spiegelman to his work, and what gave him the confidence to turn his back on fine art.
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    39 mins
  • Daniel Tammet: Nine Minds, Inner Lives on the Spectrum

    Daniel Tammet: Nine Minds, Inner Lives on the Spectrum
    Dec 11 2024
    In this week’s Books podcast, I am joined by the writer Daniel Tammet, whose new book Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum is a pen portrait of nine lives of people on the autism spectrum. On the podcast, he tells me how he happened upon these nine lives, whether ‘spectrum’ is a helpful term when understanding autism and Asperger’s syndrome, and how popular culture’s most famous depiction of autism – Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man – is based on an individual who wasn’t autistic at all.
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    38 mins
  • Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence

    Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence
    Dec 4 2024
    In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is Jonathan Coe, talking about cosy crime, the tug of nostalgia, the joys of satire, and his brilliant new novel, The Proof of My Innocence.
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    33 mins

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