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Front RowReview: Edvard Munch portraits, Indian film Sister Midnight, Chekhov's The Seagull with Cate BlanchettSamira Ahmed and guest critics - the novelist and anthropologist Tahmima Anam and Ben Luke from the Art Newspaper - give their verdict on the week’s cultural releases. They’ve been to see Cate Blanchett in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Centre. The classic drama still features characters from Russian nobility – but it’s given a modern-day treatment including VR headsets and quad bikes. They have also watched Sister Midnight, a film about a young bride called Uma who joins her husband in Mumbai but struggles to adapt to her new life a...2025-03-1342 minFront RowLondon Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian BostridgeKnife is Salman Rushdie’s memoir about surviving a near-fatal knife attack in August 2022 and the long, painful period of recovery that followed. Ben Power’s adaption of the Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend – London Tide – which features songs that he co-wrote with PJ Harvey, has just opened at the National Theatre in London. Baby Reindeer is a new Netflix drama written by and starring Richard Gadd who drew directly on his own shocking experience of being stalked. All three are reviewed by Tahmima Anam and John Mullan.We also hear from ten...2024-04-1842 min
Arts & IdeasScottish KingshipIn 2024, Scotland marks two big anniversaries: David I ascended the throne nine centuries ago and James I of Scotland began his reign 600 years ago. Both Kings played a role in shaping Scotland's ideas about its monarchy. How did David shape Scotland, and what relevance does the Stone of Destiny have - then, and now, as it returns to its native Perthshire? We look at the Scottish dream-vision, initiated by James I in writing Scotland's first love poem, sparking a new tradition lasting through the Renaissance and beyond. Anne McElvoy hears about distinctly Scottish ideas of Kingship.Kylie...2024-03-2045 min
fiction/non/fictionFreeman’s: Conclusions: John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final IssuePoet, editor, and writer John Freeman and novelist Omar El Akkad join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the final issue of Freeman’s, a literary magazine founded in 2015. El Akkad, a contributor to the volume, describes founding editor Freeman’s intense and uniquely broad interest in literature, as well as his unusual ability to curate collections of pieces that are in conversation with one another. Freeman explains the work and support that made the magazine possible, and reflects on the moment when he decided to pursue it, as well as how he decided to conc...2023-10-1955 min
World Book ClubTahmima Anam: A Golden Age2023-09-2650 minWorld Book ClubTahmima Anam: A Golden Age2023-09-0650 min
#AmWritingSatire: writing just below "over-the-top" with Jane Roper Episode 364The book is The Society of Shame and one of the many, many ways you can tell it’s satire is that it keeps making people who don’t get it mad. Satire is fiction, hopped up on humor and then amped up by all the things that seem like they couldn't quite happen and yet you know they might. (Another commonality of good satire? The most outrageous bits are often the ones that come straight from the headlines. The author is Jane Roper, who is also the author of a memoir, Double Time: How I Survived–and Mos...2023-06-1641 min
#AmWritingSatire: writing just below "over-the-top" with Jane Roper Episode 364The book is The Society of Shameand one of the many, many ways you can tell it’s satire is that it keeps making people who don’t get it mad. Satire is fiction, hopped up on humor and then amped up by all the things that seem like they couldn't quite happen and yet you know they might. (Another commonality of good satire? The most outrageous bits are often the ones that come straight from the headlines.
The author is Jane Roper, who is also the author of a memoir, Double Time: How I Survived–and Mostly Thrived...2023-06-1641 minFront RowPatrick Bringley on being a museum guard and TV drama Citadel reviewedPatrick Bringley sought solace after the death of his brother and found it as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where he worked for ten years. He joins Front Row to talk about his memoir of that time, All the Beauty in the World.Novelist Tahmima Anam and film critic Jason Solomons review the Russo Brothers' new spy thriller series Citadel starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Stanley Tucci, as well as the satirical action comedy film Polite Society, directed by Nida Manzoor.And art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston reacts to the...2023-04-2742 min
A Good ReadDonna Leon and Margaret HeffernanThe author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series, Donna Leon, is joined by writer-entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan and the presenter Harriett Gilbert.Donna has chosen a book by an author she greatly admires, Ross MacDonald, who she read before she became a writer herself. His 1971 noir novel, The Underground Man, follows a detective as he tries to track down a missing child, whilst a mysterious fire rages through the hills of Southern California. Margaret loves Butcher's Crossing, the lesser-known book by John Williams, the author of Stoner. Set in 1871, this is about a young Harvard drop-out who...2023-03-2828 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Language InstructionLetters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa AnapparaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Writer of Colour Author: Deepa Anappara Narrator: Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour. What if we reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written? And can we then apply our...2023-03-2305 minfiction/non/fictionLetters to a Writer of Color: Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Finding Community With Each OtherFiction writers Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the newly published essay collection Letters to a Writer of Color, which they co-edited. The book features 17 pieces by authors of color from all over the world reflecting on aspects of craft and the writing life. Anappara and Soomro talk about how experiences in their MFA program led them to collaborate on the book. Contributors include Kiese Laymon on the second person, Ingrid Rojas Contreras on trauma, Myriam Gurba on art and activism, Sharlene Teo on reception and resilience, Amitava Kumar on...2023-03-0945 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLetters to a Writer of Color by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu GuoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Writer of Color Author: Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo Narrator: Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call al...2023-03-0710 minArts & IdeasStories of LoveProust as an agony uncle, Romeo and Juliet rewritten as 21st century Welsh teenagers in a new drama by Gary Owen, the Lesbian coming of age novel by Rita Mae Brown that inspired the lead character in Willy Russell's Educating Rita to change her name and a new book inspired by the historical figures who collaborated on the first English medical textbook on homosexuality. Tom Crewe's novel The New Life depicts the married lives and love triangles of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis and the impact of Oscar Wilde's trial on their attempts to publish their study...2023-02-1444 minArts & IdeasArabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's talesShahidha Bari looks at the voices of women emerging from new writing in novels, plays and histories. Zenobia, Mavia, and Khadijah are Arabian queens and noblewomen who feature in the new book by Emran Iqbal El-Badawi which looks at the way female rulers of Arabia were crucial in shaping the history of the region. Hannah Khalil's new play at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe in London imagines a writers room of women weaving the tales that will last Scheherazade for 1,001 nights. And, Abdul Shayek's new production at the Tara Theatre in London is based on the testimony...2022-11-2344 min
World Book ClubTahmima Anam: A Golden AgeThis month as World Book Club continues its year-long season celebrating the Exuberance of Youth it also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the programme.To mark this happy occasion World Book Club are guests of the London Literature Festival at the South Bank Centre on the River Thames and Harriett Gilbert talks to Bangladeshi-born British novelist Tahmima Anam about her enthralling novel, A Golden Age.Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution, of hope, faith and unexpected heroism in...2022-11-0549 min
Late To ItThe Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam and The Answers by Catherine LaceyKirsty and Naomi discuss grief and god complexes in The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam and The Answers by Catherine Lacey.
Also mentioned:
A Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (translated by Tanya Leslie)
Write It All Down by Cathy Rentzenbrink2022-11-021h 07
Book Off!Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam (Friendships, Fondness, Seinfeld and Bum Injections)This week, the brilliant authors Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam go head to head in a war of the words. They discuss their novels "Best Of Friends" and "The Startup Wife" as well as their own friendship, Seinfeld and bum injections! Plus, they recommend some books they have been reading and enjoying recently. ("A Manuel For Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin and "How We Read Now" by Elaine Castillo)THE BOOK OFF "The Skin Of A Lion" by Michael OndaatjeVS"Interior Chinatown" by Charles Yu 2022-09-2845 min
A World of DifferenceWellness: Tahmima Anam on Supporting Women at Work, Microagressions, the Startup Wife, the Motherhood Penalty and the Power of SilenceTahmima Anam is an award-winning novelist, anthropologist, and author of The Startup Wife. She is a Contributing Opinion Writer for the International New York Times and Board Director at ROLl, a tech startup. Her latest Ted Talk is called: The power of holding silence: Making the workplace work for women Follow her on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter*We reference the book Pay Up by Reshma Saujani. It's a MUST READ in a post-Roe America and anywhere around the world where women experience a pay gap.Become a patron of this podcast, and...2022-06-291h 08
Woman's HourWeekend Woman’s Hour: Grease stars Olivia Moore & Jocasta Almgill, Female Bouncers & the Power of SilenceAs the nation celebrates the Queen’s 70 year reign this jubilee weekend we ask what impact will the changes to primogeniture mean for future British monarchs? We hear from five historians, Alison Weir, Lady Antonia Fraser, Jung Chang, Tracey Borman and Kate Williams.Author Julie Myerson’s new book is Nonfiction, a novel about a couple struggling with a daughter who is addicted to heroin. It's partly inspired by the experience of her own son's drug addiction. Julie joins Andrea Catherwood to talk about addiction, maternal love and the ethics of novel writing.Grease IS the...2022-06-0455 minWoman's HourTahmima Anam, Genome Sequencing, TwinnieTahmima Anam is an anthropologist and a novelist. She's a big fan of silence and believes it can been harnessed to challenge sexism and expose bad behaviour. We talk about the pros, cons and ethics of genome sequencing for new-borns. A new pilot will be running shortly, so we speak to Vivienne Parry, Head of Engagement at Genomics England and Rebecca Middleton, who has an inherited brain aneurysm disorder and is a member of the panel representing parents and health care professionals.Do you know what "fexting" is? Do you do it? It's in the...2022-06-0155 minFront RowPJ Harvey, Radical Landscapes exhibition and TV show The Terror-Infamy reviewedSinger songwriter PJ Harvey tells us about Orlam, her narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country - a rural, and at times gothic, coming-of-age story and the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades.Radical Landscapes is the name of a new exhibition exploring human connections with the landscape, at Tate Liverpool. The Terror-Infamy is a drama on BBC2 depicting the internment camps in the US where those of Japanese heritage were kept after Pearl Harbour - and a strange spirit is abroad. Writers and critics Tahmima Anam...2022-05-0542 min
One for the Books031: Muslim Authors to Read for RamadanTo celebrate Ramadan, we’re chatting about our favourite books by Muslim authors. Ramadan Kareem to everyone who celebrates!
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS:
Slow Horses TV Show
We Are Lady Parts TV Show
Happy Reading!2022-04-2239 minFront RowMark Rylance, Julian Knight, Reviews of Hockney's Eye, The Dropout and WeCrashedMulti award winning actor Mark Rylance on his latest film The Phantom of the Open, a warm hearted comedy about Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator at the shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness who managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. The Phantom of the Open is in cinemas from March 18th. Mark also talks to Samira about reprising his celebrated role as Johnny ‘Rooster‘ Byron in Jez Butterworth’s award winning play Jerusalem.The Unboxed Festival that kicked off in Paisley earlier this month had a rave review here on Fro...2022-03-1742 min
Little, Brown AudioLove Marriage by Monica Ali, read by Ayesha Dharker (Audiobook extract)TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.
The new novel from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BRICK LANE
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'Exquisitely written with big-heartedness, intelligence and passion' RUTH JONES
'Funny, warm, powerful' DIANA EVANS
'Big-hearted, pitch-perfectly written, and utterly unputdownable' NEEL MUKHERJEE
Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster.
But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.
As Yasmin dismantles her o...2022-02-0305 min
The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania JarvisTahmima Anam on satirising big tech - and the five years that her son wouldn't eatTahmima Anam has had a fascinating life. Born in Bangladesh, she has lived in Paris, New York and Bangkok - and is now based in the UK. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), won the Commonwealth Writers Prizes' Best First Book award and launched a highly acclaimed trilogy concerned with telling the history of Bangladesh as an independent nation. Her most recent book, The Start Up Wife, is extremely different - a sort of "romantic comedy" (to use her phrase) which satirises the start-up industry, tech bros, and Big Tech's messianic tenancies. It's hilariously funny and bitingly sharp - she...2021-11-2831 minFront RowHouse of Gucci, Adele's 30 and The Every by Dave EggersThe designer Henry Holland and writers Stephanie Merritt and Tahmima Anam review House of Gucci, The Every by Dave Eggers and Adele's new album 30.In the run up to the Turner Prize, Front Row is hearing from the artists’ collectives nominated for the award. Tonight, we hear from Array, a Belfast based collective who use their art to draw attention to social and political issues in Northern Ireland. Array tell Marie-Louise Muir what the nomination means to them.Sound and music from Array Collective’s Turner Prize installation The Druthaib's Ball including 'The Hard Border' Poem...2021-11-2542 min
Punch KeysInterview With Indie Mystery Author Paul Bradley CarrThis week, Poppy and Cass interview Paul Bradly Carr on his recent release of 1414°, braving self-publishing, embracing the journey that's got him here, and everything in-between.
Books and Authors Mentioned in the Episode:
A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug by Sarah Lacy
Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
Imposter Syndrom by Kathy Wang
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
Agatha Christie
Ruth Wara
Links mentioned in this episode:
http://www.punchkeys.com
https://bookworm.fm/
https://www.ingramspark.com/
http://www.paulbradleycarr.com
Twitter handle: @paulbradleycarr
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Quick Book Reviews. Spoiler-free author interviews & book reviews.Quick Book Reviews - Episode 132 - Neil Lancaster interview & book reviews.I interview Neil Lancaster about his new book “Dead Man’s Grave” and also review “Femlandia” by Christina Dalcher, “The Startup Wife” by Tahmima Anam, “Our Doris” by Charles Heathcote and “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M Danforth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-11-0144 min
Broads and BooksSomebody That I Used to KnowThis week, we're looking at change. How characters evolve, how they promise not to change and fail: our fiction, nonfiction, and pop culture picks point the way. Also in this episode, Erin talks about channeling Cardi B, Amy plans Ziggy the Podcat's influencer future, and we engage with harem pants. Listen to "Somebody That I Used to Know," the song from Gotye and Kimbra that inspired this week's theme. _____A Broad's book: Pre-order DIG ME OUT by our own Amy Lee Lillard now! _____O...2021-09-1556 min
5x15Tahmima Anam - The Startup WifeTahmima Anam is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and Harvard-educated anthropologist. She is also an executive director of ROLI, a music technology startup with offices in New York and London. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her other novels include The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace and most recently The Start Up Wife. Tahmima was named as one of Granta’s Best Young Novelists of the Year in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2014 Sund...2021-09-1414 min
Brown Baby PodcastSeason 2 Episode 5: Tahmima Anam And Scary DadsThis week I talk to the incredible author Tahmima Anam. Tahmima is the author of four novels. Her most recent one, The Startup Wife, is a hilarious skewering of the sexism of the tech industry. It follows Asha Ray, the inventor of a new utopian app, who soon finds herself sidelined in her own work, and starts to wonder why. Tahmima is such a lovely, funny, brilliant warm person to talk to. We talk about letting our kids use tablets, if they understand what we do for a living and the tech industry’s problem with women. It’s a gr...2021-09-0855 min
Library Nerds with WordsEpisode 23: Heather Talks About Passions, Festivals, and LibationsIn this episode, Peter White Public Library Development Director Heather Steltenpohl stops by to talk about passion projects, book festivals, and special libations to put you in the library spirit.
Heather's book recommendations:
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica.2021-08-3021 min
Book StewKara Watson on THE STARTUP WIFE | Why We Love ItExecutive Editor Kara Watson explains why she loves Tahmima Anam's new novel, THE STARTUP WIFE.2021-08-0901 min
BookclubTahmima Anam - A Golden AgeA Golden Age by Tahmima Anam is set fifty years ago, during the Bangladesh War of Independence. The conflict is seen through the eyes of Rehana, a fiercely protective mother, whose children join the fighting. Rehana, though not a natural revolutionary, becomes involved in the conflict herself, determined to do whatever it takes to keep her family intact.
Tahmima Anam joins James Naughtie to answer questions from readers about this powerful, award winning book.2021-08-0127 min
The Maris ReviewEpisode 114: Tahmima AnamTahmima Anam is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and has been named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Born in Bangladesh, she now lives in London where she is on the board of ROLI, a music tech company founded by her husband. Her latest novel is called The Startup Wife.Today's sponsor is HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview14 and use code marisreview14 for up to 14 free meals plus free shipping! Learn more about yo...2021-07-2930 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Startup Wife: A Novel by Tahmima AnamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Startup Wife: A Novel Author: Tahmima Anam Narrator: Tanha Dil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: *'A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups.' —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of...2021-07-1303 minBookclubFrancis Spufford - Golden HillFrancis Spufford’s novel Golden Hill won the Costa Book Award, the Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for a host of others. It’s been described by critics as ‘a crackerjack novel of old Manhattan’, ‘Like a newly discovered novel by Henry Fielding with extra material by Martin Scorsese’, and ‘utterly captivating’. Francis joins James Naughtie and a group of his readers to discuss this novel set in the embryo metropolis of 18th Century New York.Presenter: James Naughtie
Producer: Allegra McIlroyAugust’s Bookclub choice: A Golden Age by Tahmima Ana2021-07-0427 min
Book Talk, etc.July Books on the RadarSend us a textIn Episode 6 of Book Talk, Etc. Tina and Renee are talking about their July Books on the Radar! They share what they're loving lately, their latest read, a shelf addition, and have book talk about upcoming July releases they are excited to read. *Time stamps with each book mentioned and it's image can be found on our website Booktalketc.comLoving Lately3:00 Boscia Blotting Papers Tatcha Blotting Papers 5:41 Scribd App Latest Reads8:18 Ace of Spades- Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé...2021-06-2948 min