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Happier with Gretchen RubinEp. 569: Do You Miss Having Time to Hang Out with Friends? Plus Listeners’ One-Word ThemesWe explore the value of the German custom of the Stammtisch as a fun and easy way to strengthen friendships. We also share dozens of compelling one-word themes chosen by listeners for 2026—plus a strategy for elevating everyday life. Resources & links related to this episode: Learn more about Move 26 join us here Elizabeth is reading: The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is rereading: Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits (Amazon, Bookshop) Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, p...
2026-01-1434 min
Fresh AirBest Of: Will Arnett / ‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig BrewerWill Arnett stars in the new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ about a man going through a divorce, who finds himself onstage doing stand-up. He spoke with Terry Gross about trying out stand-up under a fake name, and his voiceover work. Also, director Craig Brewer talks about his film, ‘Song Sung Blue.’ It’s based on the true story of a Milwaukee couple who became local legends performing as a Neil Diamond tribute band.Plus, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the roadtrip novel ‘The Rest of Our Lives,’ by Benjamin Markovits. Learn more about sponsor message choices...
2026-01-1049 minFresh AirBest Of: Will Arnett / ‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig BrewerWill Arnett stars in the new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ about a man going through a divorce, who finds himself onstage doing stand-up. He spoke with Terry Gross about trying out stand-up under a fake name, and his voiceover work. Also, director Craig Brewer talks about his film, ‘Song Sung Blue.’ It’s based on the true story of a Milwaukee couple who became local legends performing as a Neil Diamond tribute band.Plus, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the roadtrip novel ‘The Rest of Our Lives,’ by Benjamin Markovits. Learn more about sponsor message choices...
2026-01-1049 min
bookfareBest Books of 2025Katherine and Ashley discuss their favorite books from 2025. Katherine Current Reads: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker The Director by Daniel Kehlmann The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits Ashley Current Reads: Happy Hour by Marlow Granados The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt Kat's Top Five: Foster by Claire Keegan A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney The Land in Winter...
2026-01-0948 min
Poured OverBen Markovits on THE REST OF OUR LIVES The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits is a deeply human and tender story of a man's journey across North America. Ben joins us to talk about road trip novels, middle age, marriage, family and more with guest host Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits Queen Esther by John Irving...
2026-01-0649 min
Books, Baby!Flesh by David Szalay: the 2025 Booker Prize WinnerIt’s Books, Baby! Booker Prize episode and Bev, Ian and Alo dive into the 2025 winning novel Flesh by David Szalay. We explore its sharp examination of masculinity, emotional restraint, and the quiet turning points that shape István’s life from adolescence to middle age. This episode also features Sim, joining us for a second guest appearance this season.Books mentioned in this episode:Audition - Katie KitamuraSeascraper - Benjamin WoodFlashlight - Susan ChoiThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran DesaiThe Rest of Our Lives - Ben MarkovitsThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Sheha...
2025-11-2451 min
Happier with Gretchen RubinEp. 560: Very Special Episode: What Secrets Does Your Therapist Wish They Could Tell You?We talk to Lori Gottlieb—psychotherapist, bestselling author, and co-host of the “Since You Asked” advice podcast—about what she wishes she could tell her patients. We discuss questions like why patients lie to their therapists, how to know if you’re the toxic friend, how to handle a challenging holiday gathering, and how to end rumination. Resources & links related to this episode: Request bookplates now to get them in time for the holidays! Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (Amazon, Bookshop) Elizabeth is reading: The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson (Amazon, Bookshop) Gr...
2025-11-1238 min
Book Reccos: Between the PagesOctober Wrap Up 2025In this episode, Jess and Lauren wrap up October and before taking an October half term share a couple of reccos from the Booker Prize shortlist!Books Mentioned in this episode:Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits Audition by Katie Kitamura Book Reccos Website, Shop & newsletter: Don't forget to check out our website and checkout the Book Reccos shop to purchase your very own Book Reccos Reading Journal! And whilst you're there sign up to our newsletter to receive a monthly email from us to fill you in on...
2025-10-2231 min
Rippling Pages: Interviews with WritersJoanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American RoadAmerica is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again?
That’s the question at the heart of Joanna Pocock’s essay, Greyhound (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Named after the iconic bus company whose intercity network carries passengers from Detroit to Los Angeles — and which Joanna relies on for her own journey — Greyhound revisits familiar motels, crossings, and bus stations she first encountered years before.
Joanna’s writing has appeared in the LA Times, Guardi...
2025-10-0236 min
Ignite A Transformative Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin MarkovitsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/252094to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Rest of Our Lives
Author: Benjamin Markovits
Narrator: Eric Meyers
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
Release date: 08-28-25
Ratings: 5.0 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings
Genres: Genre Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
When Tom Layward's wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while taking her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact, and keeps driving West. An unforgettable road trip novel, The Rest of Our Lives beautifully explores the nuance and complications of a long...
2025-08-286h 56
Curious ReadersEp 16: Books About Art & the Booker Prize Longlist On this week’s bumper episode we cover the Booker Prize longlist before exploring some of our favourite fiction and non-fiction about art. We ask why books featuring artists seem to be so perennially popular and what is it about the artist’s life that keeps us coming back for more.Book NewsThe Booker Prize Long List Love Forms by Claire Adam The South by Tash AwUniversality by Natasha BrownOne Boat by Jonathan BuckleyFlashlight by Susan...
2025-08-151h 18
The Book ShowAmy Bloom, Ben Markovits and Barbara Truelove on love, basketball and monstersAmy Bloom on her latest novel I'll Be Right Here about an unconventional chosen family, Ben Markovits goes on the road with his Booker Prize longlisted novel The Rest of Our Lives and Barbara Truelove's bonkers book about Dracula in space, Of Monsters and Mainframes. Amy Bloom is the American author of ten books (including White Houses) and her new historical novel, I'll Be Right Here, begins in wartime Paris and follows an unconventional, chosen family into the 21st century. The famous French author Collette has a cameo role too. Amy Bloom also shares the two things t...
2025-08-0353 min
Front RowMotherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legendMotherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on putting Wayne and Coleen Rooney at the heart of her debut play - The Legend of Rooney's Ring - which has just opened at the Royal Court in Liverpool.Literary critic Alex Clark examines the Booker Prize longlist which was announced today.Love Forms by Claire Adam
The South by Tash Aw
Universality by Natasha Brown
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
The Land in Winter...
2025-07-2942 min
San ClementeBenjamin Markovits: Finding Purpose, Writing the Family and Intergenerational UnderstandingBenjamin Markovits grew up mostly in Texas. He left an unpromising career as a professional basketball player to study the Romantics – an experience he wrote about in Playing Days, a novel. Since then he has taught high school English, worked at a left-wing cultural magazine, and written essays, stories and reviews for, among other publications, The New York Times, Granta, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Paris Review.He has published seven novels, including Either Side of Winter, about a New York private school, and a trilogy on the life of Lord By...
2025-05-151h 00Rippling Pages: Interviews with WritersBonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts, Michael Jordan, and family favourites!“It’s my mum’s favourite book that I wrote!”
Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But he’s deferring some health issues and it seems like it’s only a matter o...
2025-04-0309 minRippling Pages: Interviews with WritersBenjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness‘The people I like to write about are what I would describe as moderately successful failures.’
Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber.
Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But he’s deferri...
2025-03-2033 min
Lit with CharlesBen Markovits, author of "The Rest of Our Lives"In this episode of Lit with Charles, I sit down with Benjamin Markovits to discuss his latest novel, The Rest of Our Lives. This beautifully reflective book follows Tom, a middle-aged father who, after dropping his youngest daughter at college, keeps driving, embarking on an unplanned journey that forces him to confront the unresolved trauma of an affair, a failing marriage, and a mysterious health condition. Blending the themes of a road trip novel, midlife crisis, and personal reckoning, Markovits crafts a story that is much more than the sum of its parts—meditative, intimate, and profoundly moving....
2025-02-2443 min
Work FaceLuckpilling the Meritocracy (with Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz)What if most of what we believe about success and failure at work is just a story we made up? What if the core ideas driving modern workplace culture might be making us less effective, less innovative, and a whole lot more anxious?Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz, Ethics Director at the Creator Accountability Network, shares his experience in off-Broadway theater and discusses his dissertation research on “luckpilling,” a radical new way of thinking about success, failure, and who deserves help (spoiler: it’s everyone).(00:00) Who Deserves Help?(01:44) Theater Work and Insecurity(06:03) Workplace Power Dynamics(1...
2025-02-0138 min
Layman LowmanThe Draft, Victor Wembenyama, playing against Dirk and is Damian Lillard Tottenham Hotspur?This week James B sits down with former player and award winning author, Benjamin Markovits, to discuss the Draft, its number one prospect Victor Wembenyama, playing against a young Dirk Nowitzki and Ben's latest novel, The Sidekick. Rate and review people, because the temperature is rising.
2023-06-2353 min
The LRB PodcastHow To Win at BasketballAhead of the NBA finals next month, LRB contributor, novelist and former basketball player Benjamin Markovits talks to sports journalists Ben Cohen and Kevin Arnovitz about the role of data in the game. Why did it take teams so long to realise the value of the three-point shot? What's the difference between a 32% shooter and a 37% shooter? And is there anything more exciting in sport than watching Steph Curry’s pre-game warm-up?Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/nbapodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://myl...
2022-05-3158 min
The TLS PodcastClarity, Honesty, FluffThis week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Benjamin Markovits, the novelist, critic and teacher of creative writing, to discuss 100 American essays spanning 300-odd years (‘have we got any better at it?’); the sinologist Rana Mitter discusses the supremely difficult, and controversial, job of adapting the Chinese script for the modern age; plus, ‘Edelweiss’, a poignant new poem by Fiona Benson‘The Glorious American Essay: One hundred essays from colonial times to the present’, edited by Phillip Lopate‘Kingdom of Characters: A tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China’ by Jing Tsu...
2022-01-271h 03
Staat, Sex, AmenDas Sommer-Spezial: Kristian und Imre mit 20 Buchtipps für die SommerferienStaat, Sex, Amen - mit Imre Grimm und Kristian Teetz
"Staat, Sex, Amen" ist wieder da - diesmal mit einer Spezialausgabe für die Ferien! Imre und Kristian empfehlen jeweils zehn Bücher aller Genres für die Sommerlektüre im Liegestuhl. Es geht um Indianer, Liebe, China, den Wilden Westen, Väter und Söhne, Marokko und den Zauber des Waldes. Viel Spaß beim Hören und Lesen. "Staat Sex Amen" geht damit in die Sommerpause und ist Ende August wieder da. Schönen Sommer!
Imres Bücherliste:
Sherman Alexie: „Das absolut wahre Leben eines Teilzeit-Indianers“, dtv, 272 S., a...
2021-07-1753 min
Arts & IdeasMid Century ModernPeace, prosperity and formica - that's one way of describing the vision on show at the Festival of Britain in 1951. But domesticity had a radical side and in this Free Thinking conversation, Shahidha Bari talks to researchers Sophie Scott-Brown and Rachele Dini and looks at the domestic appliances selected for display in the newly re-opened Museum of the Home, talking to Director Sonia Solicari about how ideas about home, homelessness and home-making have shaped what is on show.Museum of the Home, previously the Geffrye Museum re-opened on June 12th 2021 https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/...
2021-06-2344 min
ART FICTIONSContemplative Cracks and Lo-Fi Tech (DEAN KENNING)Guest artist DEAN KENNING
joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them.
Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Dean Kenning, and I go on to discuss his clunky sculptures, social body-mind maps and his philosophical mish mash 'Metallurgy of the Subject'. We delve into the cracks between the flatness to explore id...
2021-05-241h 16
The TLS PodcastBringing Tolstoy downCaryl Emerson on Tolstoy’s art, ideas and life, and the extent to which these came together; Benjamin Markovits returns to a treasured childhood book: The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook; Eve Babitz – a “fizzy”, “fabulous” chronicler of 1960s and 70s Los Angeles – is mid revival. Megan Marz fills us in.Lives and Deaths: Essential stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Boris DralyukLeo Tolstoy: A very short introduction by Liza KnappLeo Tolstoy by Andrei ZorinThe Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook by Gary GygaxI Used To Be Char...
2020-02-0646 min
Gelf Magazine's Varsity LettersSports Novels Night: A Conversation With Alexander Tilney and Benjamin MarkovitsOn November 7, 2019, two novelists appeared at Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge to read from and talk about their books on squash and tennis. Talking about their work in a conversation with Gelf Magazine co-founder Carl Bialik in this episode: Benjamin Markovits—teacher of creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of nine novels, including Playing Days, about his experience playing pro ball in Germany—read from his pair of novels A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin, which follow the fortunes of a large family of Te...
2019-11-0947 minGelf Magazine's Varsity LettersSports Novels Night: Alexander Tilney and Benjamin MarkovitsOn November 7, 2019, two novelists appeared at Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge to read from and talk about their books on squash and tennis. Reading from their work in this episode: Benjamin Markovits—teacher of creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of nine novels, including Playing Days, about his experience playing pro ball in Germany—read from his pair of novels A Weekend in New York and Christmas in Austin, which follow the fortunes of a large family of Texan Jews, including Paul Essinger, a retiring tennis playe...
2019-11-0927 min
Thirty Love: Conversations About TennisNovelist Benjamin Markovits On Life After A Professional Tennis CareerNovelist Benjamin Markovits rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two books that touch on tennis: "A Weekend In New York" and its sequel, "Christmas in Austin." On the publication day of his latest book, and after a tennis match with his podcast host, Markovits describes how solitary an athlete's existence can be, whether in career or out, in a team sport or an individual one; how a retired tennis pro in the midst of a breakdown can make a lot of reasonable points; and how a career of competition can into an entire life viewed t...
2019-11-0829 min
Saturday ReviewThe Souvenir, Bait, Appropriate, Mary Beth Keane, A ConfessionTwo Brit indie film productions arrive at once: Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir is a slightly autobiographical work about a struggling young film-maker's relationship with a charismatic drug addict. Also Bait; set in a fishing village in Cornwall and with an intentionally handmade aesthetic, it explores the tense relationship between locals and incomers.
Appropriate at The Donmar Warehouse is a new play from Brandon Jacobs Jenkins. A family in the American south are dealing with the estate of their recently deceased father and unearth some unpleasant truths
Mary Beth Keane's new novel - Ask Again, Yes - is set in...
2019-08-3150 minThirty Love: Conversations About TennisNovelist Benjamin Markovits On The Solitary Lives Of Tennis Pros And WritersNovelist Benjamin Markovits joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two books that touch on tennis: "A Weekend In New York" and its forthcoming sequel, "Christmas in Austin." Markovits explains how his professional basketball career turned him off from team sports, shares his favorites from the tennis memoirs he read to prepare for writing about the game, and reflects on the agony of having a number next to your name that defines your place in your profession and the world. Music by Lee Rosevere. Markovits's website: http://www.benjaminmarkovits.com/
2019-07-1829 minArts & IdeasCatch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu MaliAnne McElvoy, former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC & novelist Benjamin Markovits on the new TV Catch-22. Jade Halbert on recycling fashion. Poet Fred D'Aguiar on winning the Cholmondeley Prize and Wu Mali on socially engaged art.Producer: Zahid Warley
2019-06-2045 min
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgePlaying Days: A Novel by Benjamin MarkovitsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Days: A Novel Author: Benjamin Markovits Narrator: Zach Villa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 18, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Available for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’s Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player’s estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood. Growing up in Texas, Ben experienced basketball as a mostly solitary pursuit, one he gave up afte...
2019-06-1905 min
VINTAGE BOOKSNine strangers and a natural catastrophe ᛫ Richard PowersLeena Norms talks to Richard Powers - author of twelve novels who lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and is author of the Pulitzer Prize winning literary novel, The Overstory.Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterMusic is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistantHe has recently been awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his...
2019-06-1637 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastRichard Powers and Benjamin Markovits: The OverstoryRichard Powers, one of America’s greatest novelists, often compared to Pynchon and Roth, read from and talked about his twelfth novel ‘The Overstory’ (Heinemann). Powers has always been remarkable for the seriousness with which he takes science and nature and their intersections with literature, and in ‘The Overstory’, which stretches in time and place from antebellum New York to the Pacific North West timber wars in the late 20th century, he provides us with an arboreal equivalent to Moby Dick, and a book that will permanently change – and for the better – the way you view the world around you. Powers was in...
2018-10-1053 min
The TLS PodcastA monster successA recording from the TLS’s 2016 London Lit Weekend at King’s Place, London: 2016 was the 200th anniversary of a dark and stormy night with an extraordinary literary legacy: Frankenstein. Frances Wilson and Benjamin Markovits recount the three days in June, 1816, at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, when a group of young writers – among them Mary Godwin – sheltered from the gloom.Find out more at www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-12-3050 min
Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2016: We Don't Have to Live Like This: experiments in utopian livingContributor(s): Michael Caines, Benjamin Markovits, Jacqueline Yallop | Why are utopian communities so appealing and are they always doomed to failure? The panel discuss utopian experiments in British history and consider whether utopian living would be possible today. Michael Caines (@michaelscaines) is an Assistant Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Benjamin Markovits is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. In 2013 Granta...
2016-02-231h 27Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2016: We Don't Have to Live Like This: experiments in utopian livingContributor(s): Michael Caines, Benjamin Markovits, Jacqueline Yallop | Why are utopian communities so appealing and are they always doomed to failure? The panel discuss utopian experiments in British history and consider whether utopian living would be possible today. Michael Caines (@michaelscaines) is an Assistant Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Benjamin Markovits is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. In 2013 Granta...
2016-02-231h 27
London Review Bookshop PodcastJonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens'The past is a mosaic; we make it out of present materials.'Jonathan Lethem’s latest book Dissident Gardens (Cape) tells, in a ‘torrent of potent voices, searing ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities’ the story of three generations of a radical New York family, at the same time painting a vivid portrait of the American Century. Jonathan Lethem was in conversation with Benjamin Markovits, author of A Quiet Adjustment and named by Granta as one of their Best Young British Novelists of 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2014-01-291h 13
GrantaBen Markovits: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 57Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron — Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, and Childish Loves. He is also the only Granta Best of Young Novelists who is known to be able to dunk. In this podcast with Yuka Igarashi, he discusses his time playing minor-league basketball for a team in southern Germany, and the ways in which this and his other experiences inform his work as a writer. He also talks about his new novel, extracted in the is...
2013-05-2130 minGrantaBen Markovits: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 57Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron — Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, and Childish Loves. He is also the only Granta Best of Young Novelists who is known to be able to dunk. In this podcast with Yuka Igarashi, he discusses his time playing minor-league basketball for a team in southern Germany, and the ways in which this and his other experiences inform his work as a writer. He also talks about his new novel, extracted in the is...
2013-05-2130 minThe Granta Podcast Episode 69Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron — Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, and Childish Loves. He is also the only Granta Best of Young Novelists who is known to be able to dunk. In this podcast with Yuka Igarashi, he discusses his time playing minor-league basketball for a team in southern Germany, and the ways in which this and his other experiences inform his work as a writer. He also talks about his new novel, extracted in the issue, ab...
2013-05-2030 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastDaniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits - World Literature Weekend 2011Novelists Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits share interests in their work in biography, genius and failure, charisma and the question of how to give voice to real historical figures but have differences too; both make fuel for a very interesting conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2011-06-191h 15