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Books Up Close: The PodcastEp. 11. Peter Scalpello, 'Performance Archive'In this episode, we read Peter Scalpello's poem 'Performance Archive', which you can read online at Berlin Lit. You can also buy Peter's first collection Limbic from your local bookshop or at Cipher Press.Peter Scalpello is a poet and psychotherapist from Glasgow, based in London. Their work has appeared in Five Dials, Granta, The London Magazine and the New York Times, among other publications. Peter’s debut, Limbic, was Highly Commended for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry, and adapted into a stage production at...
2025-07-0448 min
The Speakeasy: Conversations with the #WritingCommunity"Stark Holborn"Come join my guest co-host, Eryn McConnell, and I as we sit down with our guest, UK-based Science Fiction author Stark Holborn, for a lovely chat together.
Here is a handy list of some of the things referenced during the Episode:
-"The Woestynn Chronicles" (novella series by Eryn McConnell)
-Tor Publishing (tor.com)
-Luna Press Publishing (lunapresspublishing.com)
-PS Publishing (pspublishing.co.uk)
-Ghost Orchid Press (ghostorchidpress.com)
-Rebecca Yarros (author)
-The Arthur C. Clarke Award (a British award...
2024-08-311h 46
Power-Up With An Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition' by Isabel WaidnerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition'
Author: Isabel Waidner
Narrator: Kit Griffiths
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach. Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular...
2024-08-274h 34Embark On The Full Audiobook That Keeps Story Seekers Hooked.Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition' by Isabel WaidnerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition'
Author: Isabel Waidner
Narrator: Kit Griffiths
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach.Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a...
2024-08-274h 34Get Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition' by Isabel WaidnerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility 'International Edition'
Author: Isabel Waidner
Narrator: Kit Griffiths
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach. Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular...
2024-08-274h 34
Papierstau Podcast#301: Eklig, aber gut („Vielleicht ging es immer darum, dass wir Feuer spucken“ - Isabel Waidner, „Bleib“ - Adeline Dieudonné, „Das Loch“ - Hiroko Oyamada)Das ist eine Überraschung: Der Women’s Prize for Fiction, bekannt für bemerkenswerte Entscheidungen, präsentiert in diesem Jahr einen würdigen Siegertitel – der neue Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction ebenso. Wir jubilieren! Das ist hingegen keine Überraschung: Beef auf der Buchmesse! 2024 ist Italien Gastland des Branchentreffs in Frankfurt – doch der aktuelle Starautor des Landes gehört nicht zur Delegation. Aufgrund von Sicherheitsbedenken oder wegen regierungskritischer Aussagen? Wir diskutieren!
Dann geht’s im Raumschiff um die Welt und durch die Zeit: Isabel Waidner präsentiert in „Vielleicht ging es immer darum, dass wir Feuer spucken“ ein experimentelles Liter...
2024-06-191h 03
SWR Kultur lesenswert - LiteraturIsabel Waidner – Vielleicht ging es immer darum, dass wir Feuer spucken
Die im Schwarzwald geborene Isabel Waidner definiert sich selbst als non-binär, lebt und arbeitet seit langem in London und hat schon in ihrem Debütroman „Geile Deko“ von 2020 bewiesen, dass sie für queeres Dasein und Erleben eine neue, andere Sprache entwickeln kann.
Auch in „Vielleicht ging es immer darum, dass wir Feuer spucken“, der mit zweijähriger Verspätung nun auf Deutsch erscheint, steht die Freundschaft zweier queerer Menschen im Zentrum des oft surrealen Geschehens: Sterling Beckenbauer ist Kind des hier homosexuellen Franz Beckenbauer, der an AIDS verstorben ist.
Sterling und Chachki Smok haben zusammen eine Performance-Gruppe, die „Cataclysmic Foi...
2024-06-1611 min
SWR Kultur lesenswert - Literaturlesenswert Magazin: Neue Bücher für die Halbzeit
Fußball EM und Pride Month prägen diesen Juni. Und es gibt auch Verbindungen zu neuen Büchern von Isabel Waidner, Paula Irmschler und Hiroko Oyamada.
Surreale Welten
Traumhaft und surreal ist das Leben in Hiroko Oyamadas Roman „Das Loch“. Eine junge Frau folgt einem schwarzen Tier und fällt in ein Loch – Alice im Wunderland lässt grüßen!
Ebenfalls surreal und dazu queer ist der Roman „Vielleicht ging es immer darum, dass wir Feuer spucken“ von Isabel Waidner. Im Mittelpunkt: Sterling Beckenbauer, dessen Vater ein homosexueller Franz Beckenbauer ist. In London wird Sterling Opfer von queerfeindlichen...
2024-06-1655 min
Beyond The ZeroIsabel Waidner - COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITYCorey Fah Does Social Mobility
Buy the book here:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/corey-fah-does-social-mobility
@isabelwaidner
https://linktr.ee/isabelwaidner
Gateway books / Authors
Kafka
Goethe - Faust
Samuel Beckett
Dodie Bellamy
Kevin Killian
Robert Clark
Steve Abb...
2024-02-0155 min
Novel ThoughtsShort Books To Start Your Year (Spoiler Free)On this week's episode we're chatting about the best short books to start your year. Read this week: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner, The Employees by Olga Ravn, Come Closer by Sara Gran, Bewilderment by Richard Powers, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Saph’s short books: Ti Amo by Hanne Orstavik, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, Helpmeet by Nabeen Ruthnum, and A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck. Joseph’s short books: Happening by Annie Ernaux, Assem...
2024-01-171h 02
London Review Bookshop PodcastIsabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility‘Reading Waidner is like plugging into an electric socket of language and ideas’ wrote Jude Cook in the Guardian, praising Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold. Waidner reads from their latest novel Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, and talks about it with academic, performer and activist Diarmuid Hester, whose forthcoming book Nothing Ever Just Disappears Waidner has described as ‘insightful, delightful, and enlightening: an essential entrant into the queer canon.’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-12-2732 min
Beyond The ZeroEnd of Year Special Part 4Part 4
David Leo Rice
New books in 2024
The Berlin Wall
The Squimbop Condition
Conclusion to the Dodge City series -
A Room in Dodge City Volume 3
Highlights of 2023
Adam Levin
Mount Chicago and Bubblegum and looking forward to the reissue of The Instructions
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgå...
2023-12-242h 34
Queer LitQueer Space Special: “Gay’s The Word” with Erica GillinghamThis extraordinary queer space special makes all my dreams come true: I get to hang out with Erica Gillingham in the basement of Gay’s The Word! Sitting between towering stacks of books and boxes of GTW archival material that goes back all the way to the birth of this magnificent LGBTQ+ bookshop in January 1979, Erica shares some highlights of the turbulent and inspiring history of GTW. She also talks about what is happening in queer publishing right now and shares some of her favourite queer YA and romance authors. Hearing Erica speak about the way in which GTW and it...
2023-12-0523 min
ART FICTIONSSocial Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON)Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, part of Penguin Random House, the novel explores binaries, boundaries and borders, freeing us to imagine other ways of being within the context of award winning social mobility, cyclical history, and watching reality TV.
MELANIE and Jillian's discussion encompasses shame, humility, apology, gratitude, wormholes, reconfigured animations, cultural disruption, synthetic biology, persistent amnesia, complicated truths, brutalist architecture, unsustained caretaking, industrial metaphysics, winged penises, synthetic biology, false blaming, clashing ideologies, idealistic social h...
2023-11-101h 17
London Review Bookshop PodcastHelen Macdonald, Sin Blaché & Isabel Waidner: ProphetHelen Macdonald (H is for Hawk) has collaborated with musician and writer Sin Blaché to write a dazzling science fiction debut. Author Paraic O’Donnell describes Prophet (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a hyperkinetic headrush of a novel that proves its organic bona fides by getting you drunk with ideas before casually and cataclysmically breaking your heart.’ Macdonald and Blaché were at the shop to reading from and talking about their book with Isabel Waidner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-11-081h 01
DEATH // SENTENCEIsabel Waidner - Corey Fah Does Social MobilityA writer wins a prize but the prize is a UFO and there's a spider-deer hybrid and a time-travelling playwright and-
Isabel Waidner's new book is a trip, but it's not just weird for the sake of weird - there's a social critique there, which we talk about on this show, which includes new music by Ragana and Tomb Mold.
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2023-09-211h 05
The Perception PodcastMy Path to Writing with Lara PawsonHello and welcome to another episode of the Perception Podcast with me your host Caroline Partridge. In this episode, I talk with the brilliant writer and author Lara Pawson about current perceptions that surround writing, and she describes the fascinating and unconventional approach she had to writing her latest genre-defying work 'Spent Light'. We interrogate the idea of failure and what it means, and discuss solidarity and belonging, in light of Lara's latest review of the National Theatre production 'Grenfell'. Please join me as we look at life through a different lens. KEY TAKEAWAYS T...
2023-08-161h 04
Beyond The ZeroPip Adam - AUDITIONPip Adam
https://www.pipadam.com/
Buy Audition from
https://giramondopublishing.com/authors/pip-adam/
or
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/audition/
or
https://peninsulapress.co.uk/products/audition
Pip's Substack/podcast
https://betteroffread.substack.com/
Gateway books
Jackie Collins books
S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
...
2023-08-1257 min
Tender Buttons029 Isabel Waidner: Liberating the CanonIn this episode, we chat to Isabel Waidner about their new novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility. We discuss the notion of 'liberating the canon' and the role of formal innovation in representing marginalised perspectives across gender, sexuality, social class and race. We explore the queering of the Bambi figure in Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, the radical importance of acknowledging references and transdisciplinary approaches to art-making. We discuss the role of football and music as traditional ways for working-class people to access 'social mobility' and consider how literature might fit within this. We explore the queering of time...
2023-07-3150 min
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewOn Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel WaidnerUnique in its inventiveness, unique in its prose style, unique in its point of view and unique in its sense of humour, Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is a reading experience like no other. is it a mind-bending science fiction romp through uncountable dimensions? Is it an examination of how cultural artefacts shape us and are reshaped by us? Is it a cutting satire of the British class system? Is it one person’s singular quest to come to terms with themself? Is it a hilarious and painfully on target parody of the literary world? Or Is it...
2023-07-2050 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewOn Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel WaidnerUnique in its inventiveness, unique in its prose style, unique in its point of view and unique in its sense of humour, Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is a reading experience like no other. is it a mind-bending science fiction romp through uncountable dimensions? Is it an examination of how cultural artefacts shape us and are reshaped by us? Is it a cutting satire of the British class system? Is it one person’s singular quest to come to terms with themself? Is it a hilarious and painfully on target parody of the literary world? Or Is it...
2023-07-2050 minQueer Lit“Queers in Sports” with Gabriel Knott-FayleIn this dynamic discussion, Dr Gabriel Knott-Fayle (University of Calgary) and I talk about cisgenderism, heteronormativity and masculinity in sports and sports media. We discuss how trans* and queer bodies are treated and medicalised in narratives surrounding different sports but also how (amateur) sporting environments can be affirming and create safe spaces. Although as queers so many of us have negative encounters with sports, it can also be a great place to socialise with other members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and to treat our strong bodies with the love they deserve. Whether you’re a Sporty Queer or not, th...
2023-01-2440 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastMichelle Tea and Isabel Waidner: Knocking Myself UpIn Knocking Myself Up (Dey St.), Michelle Tea brings all her characteristic passion, wit and occasionally alarming candour to bear on the trials, tribulations and joys of trying to become, and becoming, a queer parent. Witch-enhanced honey, intrusive medical procedures, impertinent questions and generous drag queens collide in a memoir that is both hugely entertaining and, in the end, profoundly moving.Tea was in conversation with Isabel Waidner, author of We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff and Sterling Karat Gold.Find more upcoming LRB Bookshop events via the website: https://lrb.me/eventspod...
2022-11-161h 05
Mostly Books Meets...Kamila ShamsieOn the podcast this week we are speaking to award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie.
I thought for a long time about how best to introduce a writer as renowned and respected as Kamila. I toyed with the idea of listing off her many accolades and achievements, but each time I read them out loud I found it didn’t capture the experience of reading a Shamsie novel for the first time.
Instead, I’ll tell you that those who know and love her work talk about it in the same way they might recount a chapter from their own lives. Those who...
2022-09-2249 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastOrwell Prize Shortlist Readings: Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Isabel WaidnerSince 2019, the Orwell Prize has celebrated the best in contemporary political fiction. Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Isabel Waidner, both on the prize’s 2022 shortlist, are in conversation with Sana Goyal, one of this year’s judges, talking about their novels there are more things and Sterling Karat Gold – books which not only take political issues as subject-matter but enact radical politics through their form. Find more upcoming events at the Bookshop here: lrb.me/upcomingevents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-0757 min
Alle Podcasts und Audiofiles der Heinrich-Böll-StiftungStreit ums Politische mit Ann Cotten: "Poeta Laureatus"Der erste Abend von Streit ums Politische 2021 widmet sich unter dem Titel »Poeta laureatus« der Dichterkrone, die im Dichterwettstreit verliehen worden ist. Wir erleben gerade eine Wiederkehr der Dichtkunst an herausragender Stelle. Man denke nur an das Gedicht »The Hill We Climb«, das Amanda Gorman bei der Amtseinführung von Joe Biden vorgetragen hat. Es sind allerdings die Dichter*innen, die den Dichtern Konkurrenz machen. Die Unvergänglichkeit des Ruhms hat ein Geschlecht gewonnen. Es stellen sich die Fragen, was das für die Anlässe der Ruhmbezeugung, was für die Adressat*innen des Ruhms und was für die Sprach...
2022-02-141h 18
Schaubühne PodcastStreit ums Politische: »Poeta Laureatus«Heinz Bude im Gespräch mit Ann Cotten
Am 20. September 2021
Der erste Abend widmete sich unter dem Titel »Poeta laureatus« der Dichterkrone, die im Dichterwettstreit verliehen worden ist. Wir erleben gerade eine Wiederkehr der Dichtkunst an herausragender Stelle. Man denke nur an das Gedicht »The Hill We Climb«, das Amanda Gorman bei der Amtseinführung von Joe Biden vorgetragen hat. Es sind allerdings die Dichterinnen, die den Dichtern Konkurrenz machen. Die Unvergänglichkeit des Ruhms hat ein Geschlecht gewonnen. Es stellen sich die Fragen, was das für die Anlässe der Ruhmbezeugung, was für die Adressat_innen des Ruhms und...
2021-12-231h 18
AQNB's Artist Statement podcastEpisode 35: Changing the Narrative with Isabel Waidner (Teaser)See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn this episode Jared talks with Isabel Waidner, a writer and novelist whose fiction work incorporates elements of the surreal to develop thoughtful, critical and funny readings into class politics, race, and queer life in the UK. Moving to London from Germany in the mid-nineties, Isabel is the author of three novels, and presents This Isn’t a Dream, an online conversation series with writers hosted by London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. They teach creative writing and performance at Queen Mary University of London, and their most...
2021-12-0103 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastIsabel Waidner and Irenosen OkojieWith their first two novels Isabel Waidner has established themself as one of the most disruptive, vital and boundary-pushing fiction writers at work in the UK today. Their latest novel Sterling Karat Gold (Peninsula Press), a surreal inquiry into the real effects of state violence on gender-nonconforming, working-class and black bodies, takes this work to the next level.In celebration of its publication Isabel is in conversation with another of the UK's most innovative fiction writers, Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch (Dialogue Books). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-09-0159 min
The Burley Fisher PodcastIsolation Station #23 - A Nazi Word for a Nazi ThingA special one today. Our very own So Mayer celebrates the launch of their phenomenal pocket essay A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, an essay on Queer Erasure and a wholesale destruction of the wretched, fascist concept of Entartete. Today's pod is a pomo mashup, featuring red-hot recordings from launch night, coupled with thoughts and reflections to fill in the gaps of films which were broadcast during the live event.
Featuring readings and performances from Isabel Waidner, So Mayer, Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar, Campbell X, Tim Smith and Keith Jarrett.
Also featuring Dan Fuller's t...
2020-12-111h 27
The Influx Press PodcastLiterature Under The Influence: #2 – Isabel Waidner on CA ConradIsabel Waidner talks to Kit Caless about the author CA Conrad's influence on their writing and development as an artist.
2020-05-1135 min
PapercutsExtremely Hot and Incredibly Sweaty: Papercuts Bumper Summer Reading Edition!Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. BOOKS NEWS:Romance Writers of America Controversyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/08/romance-writers-america-cancels-awards-program-writer-racism-controversy/Booker Prize Judges Announcedhttps://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51018138Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced January 30, 2020http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awardsElizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation has diedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html?smid=fb-nytbooks&smtyp=curMargaret Atwood in...
2020-01-2200 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastQueer Cultures of Resistance: Niven Govinden, Amelia Abraham and Isabel WaidnerTo mark the publication of Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House (Dialogue Books), we hosted a round table discussion about LGBTQI+ literature and culture, and the contributions it might make to the current, somewhat torrid, political climate. Our participants were Niven Govinden, Amelia Abraham author of Queer Intentions (Picador) and Isabel Waidner, editor of Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature and author of We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (both Dostoyevsky Wannabe). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-07-061h 06
Suite (212)Liberating the Canon: An interview with Isabel WaidnerIsabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist who has published two works of fiction with Manchester-based independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe, edited an anthology of exploratory queer literature entitled Liberating the Canon, and who - with artist Richard Porter of Pilot Press (https://pilotpress.tumblr.com) - curates the Queers Read This series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
This week, new Suite (212) co-host Lara Alonso Corona asks Isabel about queer and working-class representation in 'experimental' writing, how useful such labels are, and what queer authors can take from a modernist canon that is largely white, male, cisgender, heterosexual and...
2019-03-181h 00
Suite (212)EXTRA: Army of Lovers: Queer consciousness-raising after StonewallRecorded live in Birmingham during Grand Union’s ‘Ways of Learning’ exhibition, this episode of Suite (212) Extra discusses queer consciousness-raising. Juliet talks to writer/artist Huw Lemmey about LGBTQI+ activism before and after the Stonewall riots of June 1969 in the US and western Europe; the use of direct action and think-ins by the Gay Liberation Front and others; how AIDS and Section 28 changed queer art and activism; the development of trans theory in the 1990s; and the state of queer politics and creativity today.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Travis Alabanza - http://travisalabanza.co.uk
Kenneth Anger
Penny Arcade (performance artist) - https...
2018-11-271h 37
Suite (212)John Calder - A Life in PublishingJohn Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's novels and poetry, he brought much of the most innovative European literature of the 20th century to an English-speaking audience, ultimately won a landmark obscenity trial over Hubert Selby Jr's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and has inspired several generations of exciting writers and publishers.
Joining Juliet to discuss Calder's life and legacy is Alex Kovacs, author of 'The Currency of Paper' (2013), who worked in Calder's bookshop in London in 2008-10.
Alessandro Gallenzi's obituary for John Calder: https...
2018-10-081h 00
Papertrail PodcastJoanna Walsh on: Anne Boyer, Isabel Waidner, Victok ShklovskyJoanna Walsh is a writer of fiction and non, fiction. Her latest book, 'Worlds From The Words End', is available now from And Other Stories. She has been published in a number of magazines, including Granta Magazine, Gorse Journal, and the Dublin Review. She is also a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and Catapult.co. You can read her experimental digital novella 'Seed' for free here. JOANNA'S BOOK CHOICES: Zoo: Or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Shklovsky Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer Joanna tweets @badaude. Yo...
2017-09-1431 min