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Front RowReview Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of BeautyTahmima Anam and Tristram Fane Saunders join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five short stories from Salman Rushdie in his first return to fiction since he was attacked in 2022. Director of Poor Things and The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos brings more strangeness to cinema screens with Bugonia, a thriller with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. And Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty is adapted for the stage by Jack Holden. Plus they discuss censorship in Eastern Europe as the board of the Belgrade International Festival of Theatre blocks director Milo Rau from...
2025-10-3042 minFront 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
fiction/non/fictionS7 Ep. 3: Freeman’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...
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#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 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 min
Enjoy Offering of Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, EducationLetters to a Writer of Color - Madeleine ThienListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Letters to a Writer of ColorAuthor: Madeleine ThienNarrator: Deepa Anappara, Taymour SoomroFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8:12:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 03-07-2023Publisher: Random House (Audio)Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, History & CultureSummary: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...
2023-03-078h 12Arts & 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 Rentzenbrink
2022-11-021h 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 08Front 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
2021-11-101h 12
Quick Book Reviews with Philippa HallQuick 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...
2021-09-1553 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
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 Ana
2021-07-0427 min
Book Talk, etc.July Books on the RadarSend 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
Book Lounge by LibbyJuly's biggest new books!July has arrived which means we're sharing the books coming out we're most excited to read!Also, we're on TikTok now! Books mentioned in this episodeAny Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow RowellThe Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan DouglassThe Final Girl Support Group by Grady HendrixA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersThe Tiger Mom's Tale by Lyn Liao ButlerThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
2021-06-2433 min
Hay Festival PodcastS4, Ep5 Tahmima AnamWriter, novelist and columnist Tahmima Anam selects her very first Hay event back in 2012 with Helena Kennedy, Joan Bakewell, Martin Rees and Anita Anand, Shahidul Alam speaking at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014 and the novelist, cultural commentator and founder of Palfest, Ahdaf Soueif talking to George Alagiah at Hay Festival 2017.
The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival.
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2021-06-0300 min
Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House40. We Go Haywire: Celebrating Hay Festival With Caroline Michel, Russell Tovey, Robert Diament and Tahmima AnamSubscribe to our Newsletters
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Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
We’re tuning into:
Russell Diament and Robert Diament in conversation with Olivia Laing at 1 pm on the Baillie Gifford Digital Stage
2021-05-3034 minArts & IdeasNovelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?The Startup Wife is the title of Tahmima Anam's latest novel. Anne McElvoy talks to her about writing about the work/life balance and ideas about risk. New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova, from the University of Oxford, is researching Balkan history. She writes us a postcard about the strangely changing look of the main museum in Sofia, Bulgaria and why it's significant. And we look back at Roman history as the British Museum opens an exhibition Nero: the man behind the myth, talking to curator, Dr Thorsten Opper and historian, Tom Holland.Producer: Ruth Watts...
2021-05-2545 min
Book Riot - The Podcast2021 Summer Preview DraftJeff and Rebecca compete to draft the best list of Summer 2021 new releases.
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Jeff’s Picks
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Committed by Adam Stern
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
The Appalachian Trail by Philip D’Anieri
Rebecca’s Picks
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The...
2021-05-191h 11
The EssayThe Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin FarChinatown, New York, in 1890 was described by photo-journalist Jacob Riis as "disappointing." He focused only on images of opium dens and gambling and complained about the people living there being "secretive". But could withholding your emotions be a deliberate tactic rather than a crass stereotype of inscrutability? Xine Yao has been reading short stories from the collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance, published in 1912 by Sui Sin Far and her Essay looks at what links the Asian American Exclusion Act of 1882, the first American federal law to exclude people on the basis of national or ethnic origin, to writings by the...
2021-04-2513 minArts & IdeasNew Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin FarChinatown, New York, in 1890 was described by photo-journalist Jacob Riis as "disappointing." He focused only on images of opium dens and gambling and complained about the people living there being "secretive". But could withholding your emotions be a deliberate tactic rather than a crass stereotype of inscrutability? Xine Yao has been reading short stories from the collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance, published in 1912 by Sui Sin Far and her Essay looks at what links the Asian American Exclusion Act of 1882, the first American federal law to exclude people on the basis of national or ethnic origin, to writings by the...
2021-04-2513 minArts & IdeasPoet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermidPoet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid discuss capturing different forms of speech, a sense of place, and politics - in a conversation organised with the Royal Society of Literature and Durham Book Festival, and hosted by presenter Shahidha Bari. Plus, how the medieval fable of Reynard the Fox has lessons for us all today. As a new translation and retelling by Anne Louise Avery is published, she joins Shahidha to discuss the book with Noreen Masud - a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker from Durham University. Based on William Caxton's translation of the medieval Flemish...
2020-10-1444 min
Loose EndsLesley Manville, Linda Grant, DBC Pierre, Tahmima Anam, JP Devlin, Nikki BediNikki Bedi and JP Devlin are joined by Lesley Manville, Linda Grant, DBC Pierre and Tahmima Anam for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tawiah and Nilüfer Yanya.
2020-08-0837 min
Hay Festival PodcastS2, Ep2 Romeo and JulietCould you have married your first love? Why does it matter who played Peter? What if Juliet wakes 27 lines earlier? Sarah Crossan, Germaine Greer, Abigail Rokison-Woodall, Erin Sullivan, Tahmima Anam and Stephen Fry share insights into Shakespeare’s play.
The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival.
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2020-07-2300 minArts & IdeasIan Rankin and Tahmima AnamCrime writer Ian Rankin talks with Tahmima Anam in a conversation organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the Bradford Literature Festival.
Plus New Generation Thinker Xine Yao looks at the depiction of East Asian figures in science fiction films and writing. Shahidha Bari presents.Ian Rankin's latest Inspector Rebus novel A Song For the Dark Times comes out in October. His cat-and-mouse espionage thriller Westwind was republished last September. Tahmima Anam's first novel debut novel, A Golden Age, was inspired by her grandparents' experiences of war in Bangladesh. It was followed in 2011 by...
2020-06-2644 min
Jaipur Literature Festival with Brave New WorldWriting Under Lockdown: Tahmima Anam in conversation with Sandip RoyAward-winning author, @tahmima, in conversation with @sandipr, takes us on a journey of her writing process under lockdown & explores the importance of the written word in dark times such as these. Catch their conversation live, only on JLF Brave New World!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-06-0948 minfiction/non/fictionPoetry, Prose, and the Climate Crisis: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global InequalityIn this episode, poet and editor John Freeman talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about his second collection of poetry, The Park. Freeman discusses who finds public space a source of connection, relaxation, and recreation, and who is excluded. Then Ganeshananthan, Terrell, and Freeman are joined by acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam, who has written extensively about climate change and whose fable appears in Freeman’s new anthology, Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World. The four discuss global inequality, the climate crisis, and resilience....
2020-05-211h 11
fiction/non/fictionS3 Ep. 17: Poetry, Prose, and the Climate Crisis: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global InequalityIn this episode, poet and editor John Freeman talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about his second collection of poetry, The Park. Freeman discusses who finds public space a source of connection, relaxation, and recreation, and who is excluded. Then Ganeshananthan, Terrell, and Freeman are joined by acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam, who has written extensively about climate change and whose fable appears in Freeman’s new anthology, Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World. The four discuss global inequality, the climate crisis, and resilience....
2020-05-211h 07The EssayThe Essay - Let Me Take You There - 3. Tahmima Anamleading writers evoke places of internal refuges which they visit in times of crisis
2020-05-0612 min
What Page Are You On?Different Kinds of LoveIn this episode, Alice and Bethany are riding the Valentine's wave of romance, and discuss a few books that deal with forbidden love.We talk about:The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam [which regretfully both of us were unable to finish as we did not anticipate how long it was]Call Me By Your Name by Andre AcimanWomen by Chloe CaldwellFire Sermon by Jamie Quatro[We also refer to I Love Dick by Chris Kraus]
2018-02-1952 min
WMFAExfoliating Fear From Your Mind w. TANAÏS
Author photo by Scott Dunn.
Episode 4Tanaïs (née Tanwi Nandini Islam) is the author of Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club. She is the founder of Hi Wildflower, a fragrance and beauty house. A graduate of Brooklyn College MFA and Vassar College, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.Discussed In This EpisodeLetting go of pages (a lot of th...
2017-03-1544 min
Start the WeekWorld on the MoveWorld on the Move: on Start the Week Andrew Marr explores how the mass movement of people has changed societies, in a special edition broadcast in front of an audience as part of a day of programmes on BBC Radio 4. The historian Sir Hew Strachan looks back at the largest single influx of people into Britain when 250,000 Belgians arrived during the Great War, while Frank Dikötter explores the biggest forced internal migration as tens of millions of young Chinese were sent to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. The poet Patience Agbabi humanises the mass movement o...
2016-05-1642 minStart the WeekNaomi Klein on climate change and growthNaomi Klein argues that the greatest contributor to global warming is not carbon and climate change, but capitalism. She tells Anne McElvoy that the market's addiction to growth and profit is killing the planet. But the economist Dieter Helm questions whether capitalism is really at war with the environment and looks to the world's innovators to invent our way out of crisis. Climate change is a global issue, but the author Tahmima Anam looks at what it means for her home country Bangladesh. Jeremy Oppenheim argues that economic growth and action on climate change can be achieved together, with...
2014-10-0641 minThe Granta Podcast Episode 76The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, in the issue, is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, published in 2014 by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. Here she spoke...
2013-06-0426 min
GrantaTahmima Anam: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 64The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, in the issue, is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, published in 2014 by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. Here she sp...
2013-06-0326 minGrantaTahmima Anam: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 64The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, in the issue, is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, published in 2014 by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. Here she sp...
2013-06-0326 minStart the Week16/05/2011Andrew Marr talks to Francis Fukuyama about the development of political institutions from the early tribal societies to the growth of the modern state. Pakistan has often been referred to as a 'failed state', but Anatol Lieven argues that despite its reputation it has the makings of a modern, viable and coherent country. The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, explores what it means to be middle class in Pakistan, and Tahmima Anam looks back to Bangladesh's fight for Independence, and the relationship between religion and politics in the country of her birth. Producer: Katy Hickman.
2011-05-1642 min
Saturday Review14/05/2011Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Gillian Slovo and Michael Arditti and writer Ekow Eshun review the week's cultural highlights including A Delicate Balance.James MacDonald's production of A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee at the Almeida Theatre in London stars Penelope Wilton and Tim Piggot-Smith as Agnes and Tobias - a middle-aged couple who share a home with Agnes's alcoholic sister (Imelda Staunton). The couple's lives are knocked off balance when their daughter returns home and their friends Harry and Edna turn up in flight from some existential dread.The aftermath of the 1971 Bangladeshi...
2011-05-1442 min
Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2011 - Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental LiteratureContributor(s): Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed | A new generation of writers from the subcontinent has been producing exciting work on the region's armed conflicts. This panel features two such writers: Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age, a novel about the 1971 Bangladesh war, and Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator, a novel about the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Anam and Waheed will be in conversation with Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at LSE.
2011-02-191h 28Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2011 - Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental LiteratureContributor(s): Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed | A new generation of writers from the subcontinent has been producing exciting work on the region's armed conflicts. This panel features two such writers: Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age, a novel about the 1971 Bangladesh war, and Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator, a novel about the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Anam and Waheed will be in conversation with Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at LSE.
2011-02-191h 28
Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+A Golden Age by Tahmima AnamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247910to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Golden Age
Author: Tahmima Anam
Narrator: Madhur Jaffrey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Release date: January 8, 2007
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But no one can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family's life...
2007-01-089h 10
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaA Golden Age by Tahmima AnamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Golden Age Author: Tahmima Anam Narrator: Madhur Jaffrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 8, 2007 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But no one can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family's...
2007-01-0805 minDiscover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalA Golden Age by Tahmima AnamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247910to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Golden Age
Author: Tahmima Anam
Narrator: Madhur Jaffrey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Release date: January 8, 2007
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But no one can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family's life...
2007-01-089h 10