Backlisted Podcast

It’s time for our annual look at what we’ve been reading over the summer break. John, Andy and Nicky discuss David Keenan’s fourth novel Monument Maker; Open Water, a promising debut novella from Caleb Azumah Nelson; Deborah Levy’s three-volume ‘living autobiography’, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate; a reissue of Percival Everett’s satirical diatribe Erasure; Life With a Capital L, Geoff Dyer’s selection of essays by D.H. Lawrence; and Vivian Gornick’s The End of the Novel of Love and Unfinished Business, in which the author re-reads favourite classic books and comes to fresh conclusions about them. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 06:12 - Monument Maker by David Keenan 17:47 - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 25:24 - Erasure by Percival Everett 33:38 - Things I Don’t Want to Know; The Cost of Living; Real Estate by Deberah Levy 40:55 - Life With A Capital L: Essays by D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer 48:33 - The End of the Novel of Love; Unfinished Business: No