On Litopia After Dark this week we are delighted to welcome as our special guest Martin Toseland, former publisher at both Penguin and HarperCollins, and now an author himself. Martin’s book A Steroid Hit The Earth: The Catastrophic World of Misprints is published on 10th October.
In the week that Gwyneth Paltrow launches GOOP, a website designed for her to tell us how to live better, we ask... why? A disturbing article in the current American Scholar describes precisely how muzzled both authors and publishers really are in China - will we end up changing them - or will they change us? Sony has hired a speed reader to promote their new e-reader: we ask… yeah, but what’s the point? Finally, this week The Telegraph reported that a poet, dead for 200 years, has been sent a demand to pay his TV licence – we tell you about our own officialdom-gone-mad stories. All this and the hilarious Pitch the Nasty Agent, the tense suspense of Toad Suck, Arkansas, Reverse Shuffle Six Card Strip Pokerette and the heart-wrenching Cry For Help.
Joining Martin Toseland on the panel this week are Dave Bartram, Donna Ballman and Eve Harvey. In the Ustream Chatroom, (8pm GMT) the discussion was sensible and profound, join us next week to make it less so.
