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A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Other PensToday's entry in the Writer's Diary has a go at gel, fibretip, rollerball, and fineliners. I love them, but god they're environmentally disastrous. (See fountain pens for an alternative.)How far do each of them write? I found some stats. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-02-0404 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn ImpatienceToday's entry is firstly a response to the suggestion I should just get on with it. You're doing a book about drafting, help me get on with my drafting.I have a few words, not so stern, about impatience. Then I move on to those impatient means of writing - ballpoint pens. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-02-0206 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Erasers and ErasingToday's entry is on erasers and erasing, rubbers and rubbing out - if your writing is done in pencil. I'm not giving advice on good or bad brands.Instead, like a maths teacher, I am going to advise, 'Show your workings out.' Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-3006 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Pencil ExtendersAttempting to go even further into the minutiae of writing, today's entry is about pencil extenders.If you have a beloved pencil, now too short to hold, this may be the solution.But extenders really represent an attitude to writing.Do anything you need to keep going with what works. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2805 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Pencil SharpenersToday's entry makes a few small points about the small points left behind by pencil sharpeners.It's amazing how attached writers can be to their means of production, and how passionate in defending their choices.Here are mine. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2605 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Mechanical PencilsToday's entry is about mechanical pencils. Probably preferable to wooden pencils, but maybe not.They break and can't be fixed.I admit, I don't love them as much as pencils. They don't smell as nice, for a start. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2303 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn PencilsToday's entry is simple enough - pencils.What's good about them. And I really can't find anything bad about them.The big question, however: to use the eraser or not? Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2205 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Unwelcome InterruptionsI was interrupted by three things I read, and one thing I had to do, and so today's entry is about that.Those three things I read were Roger Hallam's blog, 'The Elite Death Project', Anna Kornbluh's book 'Immediacy' and an article by Fiona Harvey, Guardian Environmental Editor, titled 'Biodiversity Collapse Threatens UK Security, Intelligence Chiefs Warn'.All discussed and linked to here. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2107 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Fountain PensToday's entry is on fountain pens.I love them, use them, recommend them.Here are some reasons why they are so good for everyday use. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-2005 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn The Means of Production of WritingToday I'm beginning a series of entries about what writer write with - pens, pencils, laptops.Rather than the ubiquitous ballpoint, I'm starting with dipping pens, which have unexpected advantages (and some clear downsides).What do you write with or on? Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1906 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastAre You Sitting Comfortably?Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.Today's entry is about writing posture. If you're in this writing milarky as a long game, you'll need to be ergonomically sussed.Not like one of those copyright free images of writers sitting cross legged with a cup of matcha. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1605 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Distraction and Overcoming ItAre you constantly distracted by your phone?Have you found out the secret of overcoming or working through this?Today I share some advice in a draft chapter from On Drafting, the writing manual you're helping me write. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1506 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn the Ghosts Haunting Your Writing SpaceWho are the ghosts that haunt your writing space, or your mind as you're writing?Is it Lydia Davis or Tolstoy? Dickens or someone I've never heard of?Today's entry is another go at an introduction to On Drafting, the writing manual you're helping me write. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1406 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn Elizabeth McCracken's A Long Game: How Write FictionToday, following up on my Guardian review of Elizabeth McCracken's writing manual A Long Game: How to Write Fiction, here are a few, slightly freer thoughts about it.tl;dr - I recommend it. It's very good. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1305 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastOn DepressionToday I'm talking and writing about how to keep going with writing when you're feeling down.I think this is something most writers face every single day, and these are some first draft thoughts on good reasons for going on. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-1205 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastAbout Working in the Dark and Being Completely LostToday's subject is writing in the dark - what Donald Barthelme called (in a famous essay) 'the not knowing'.I'm starting with an even more famous quote from Henry James, and talking about what it feels like to be lost and perhaps bewildered. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0905 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastThree Exercises for Starting a New Book from ScratchToday I share three exercises that might work if you don't have any idea what to write next.The first is based on something I do in Creative Writing workshops, encouraging students to write the worst dialogue ever.The second comes out of a trip I paid to Foyles Bookshop in London.And the third is inspired by the very inspiring Wes Anderson, and his plain yellow notebooks. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0806 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastWhat Are My Principles?What are my principles as a teacher of writing?I tried to get them down on a single page, and succeeded.There are five different principles, and here they are. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0705 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastA Draft of the IntroductionHere I'm sharing a draft opening to my writing manual. It talks about different writers different ways of drafting. Perhaps one of them is similar to yours - but I'd be surprised if you drafted like Proust, Flaubert or Kerouac. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0605 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastThe Contents PageHere's a bill of fare, a draft contents section, and a sneak preview of what's coming up in the next few weeks and months.How does this compare to what you know about a book when you begin drafting it? Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0506 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastIntroducing MyselfToday's podcast is about who you are on the page. Is it the writer described in your blurb, or is it a person you've decided to be, for the purposes of what you're writing? Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0305 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastA Draft Acknowledgement of ClimateWhat do we think about before we start writing? What context are we writing in? For me, Climate (to call it that) is front and centre. Here's what I've got to say about acknowledging that's the ground I'm on. Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0205 min
A Writer's Diary PodcastWe're Starting to Write a BookHello, Happy New Year and welcome to Writer’s Diary 2026.This is slightly different.As you can tell, I’m going to be speaking, as well as writing, and the subject this year is going to be writing a book, which I’m going to be starting doing.You can hear a train go by.I’m going to be starting doing that, and I’m going to be asking for your help, and I’m going to be bouncing things off you, doing writing exercises, trying those out,Because....
2026-01-0105 min
The Library of Lazy Thinking PodcastToby Litt on Shōbōgenzō, or The Treasury of the True Dharma EyeShōbōgenzō, he said.Bless you, I replied, and passed him a tissue.No, you idiot. That’s the book. I want to talk about Shōbōgenzō, The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.It’s the time of year, I said. Here, have another tissue.At this point, Litt smacked me over the head with a huge volume of Buddhist teaching, and at the same time, I heard the faint sound of a cymbal crash and the music from Benny Hill.Back in reality, I went away and b...
2025-10-3137 min
WORDTheatre® Weekly: A Short Story Podcast Where the Best Authors & Actors Meet...The Crown's Olivia Williams Performs "Grab My Hand" by Toby Litt
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2025-09-2014 min
Zin van de dagCult"Cult is het overschatten van iets door een kleine groep en het onderschatten van iets door een grote groep." - Stine deelt een levenswijsheid van schrijver Toby Litt.
2025-06-2403 min
The Verb29/09/2024Gardens, balloons, parties and whales feature in this week's cabaret of the word. Ian's guests include Toby Litt, Roger Robinson, Hannah Silva and Caleb Femi.Novelist, poet and librettist Toby Litt has wrestled Ian, written stories backwards, and been limited to a single verb, in previous Verb commissions. This week he has to write something surreal for us, and then write something even more surreal by the end of the show - whilst blowing up two balloons. Toby is also mine of writing advice and genre-challenging playfulness in his novels, in his book 'A Writer's Diary' and...
2024-09-2942 min
Story Radio PodcastInterview with Katie Willis about The Quiet Act of Loving Bones
Story Radio interviews Katie Willis, author of The Quiet Act of Loving Bones, published by Joan Publishing. We discuss bones, inspiration, the colour yellow, Russia and lucid dreaming.
"It is rare to come across a book that feels, at the same time, overwhelmingly strange and delightfully familiar. The Quiet Act of Loving Bones takes you into a world that is intimate and physical but also ghostly and ecstatic. You'll dance with it until you feel dizzy and transformed. I think Katie Willis has written a classic."
- Toby Litt
Katie Willis has...
2024-06-0137 min
mangan kodokread [Epub] The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes read [Epub] The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes Read Online The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook The Countenance Divine for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://karunggonisan.blogspot.com/29748029-the-countenance-divine **Download Book Here ==> https://karunggonisan.blogspot.com/29748029-the-countenance-divine Book Synopsis : An ambitious, engrossing and multi-layered debut novel 'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby Litt In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix...
2023-09-0100 min
Dark Side of the LibraryDark Comic Books Released in June 2023Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #130: Dark Comic Books Released in June 2023 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Boys Weekend, by Mattie Lubchansky (June 6) https://amzn.to/43pX6ct Black Tide Rising: The Graphic Novel, by Chuck Dixon (Writer), Brett Smith (Colorist), John Ringo (Draft Writer), Derlis Santacruz (June 27) https://amzn.to/3NdthpS ...
2023-06-2614 min
One Bright BookEpisode #15: Space Crone, by Ursula K. Le GuinJoin our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss SPACE CRONE by Ursula K. Le Guin and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss AN I-NOVEL by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Books mentioned: Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown by Virginia Woolf The Millstone by Margaret...
2023-06-071h 16
Across the Pond57. Toby Litt, "A Writer's Diary"Sam brings back news from the London Book Fair, and we talk to author Toby Litt about his latest novel, A Writer's Diary, published by Galley Beggar Press!Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, give us a follow at: X: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonInstagram: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonFacebook: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang BooksBluesky: @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.socialThe Big Book Project https...
2023-05-0249 min
Spillegal022 - SpillmusikkVi diskuterer beste og dårligste spillmusikken, og hvordan musikk påvirker spill.Send oss epost: hets@spillegal.noLedet av Tryggve SollidMed Terje Høiback og Eirik BårdsenKlippet av Terje HøibackInnhold:0:00 Intro: tema fra «Walker» av Raymond Usher, (Amiga 1993)1:09 Terje har spilt Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge8:49 og The Incredible Crash Dummies16:29 Eirik har spilt Superliminal23:10 Tryggve har spilt Akka Arrh, Swordship og Rytm...
2023-03-202h 20
The Spiracle PodcastActivism and Writing: Toby Litt speaks to Eliane BrumToby Litt interviews Eliane Brum, author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World, an edition audiobook now available from Spiracle. It is a book transporting and transforming in equal parts. Eliane is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist, and a founder of Sumaúma: Journalism from the Centre of the World, a trilingual news platform based in Altamira, in the Amazon rainforest, where she lives. Eliane reflects powerfully on living in the Amazon, and on amplifying indigenous voices rather than speaking for them. We are not lacking voices, she says, we are lacking ears.
2023-03-0147 min
Tomprat med Gunnar TjomlidEpisode 322: Myokarditt og myokardatt. Covidioti. World Climate Declaration. Tredemølle.Jeg har så smått begynt å mosjonere litt, takket være min lille tredemølle. Men hvordan skal jeg opprettholde rutinene når jeg stadig vekk er på reise? En ny studie viser at myokarditt fra mRNA-vaksiner er svært mye mildere enn myokarditt fra covid-19 eller andre årsaker. Men covidiotene nekter selvsagt å forholde seg til data, og dummer seg sørgelig ut på Twitter. I fjor sommer ble det publisert en rapport ved navn World Climate Declaration hvor "1200 klimaforskere" signerte på at menneskeskapt global oppvarming er en bløff. Jeg har sett litt nærmere på denne rapporten. Thousands of rec...
2023-02-071h 14
Mora FMS02E12: Perspektive (POV)U ovoj epizodi pričamo o tome tko nam priča priču. Koje lice koristimo u pisanju - 1., 2. ili 3.? Kako stojimo sa sveznajućim pripovjedačima? Kako s nepouzdanim? Koje su nam knjige zanimljive bile baš po naratoru?
U ovoj se epizodi spominju:
Points of view, POVovi, LARP/larp, fokalizacija, third person close, third person limited, omniscient, Igor Rendić: A Town Called River, Roger Zelazny: serijal Amberske kronike, Jim Butcher: serijal The Dresden Files, framing device, Anne Rice: Intervju s vampirom, Bram Stoker: Drakula, epistolarni roman, Haunting of Bly Manor (TV 2020), Edgar Allan Poe, HP Love...
2023-01-261h 20The VerbFirst DraftsThis week we examine the sometimes painful process of drafting and redrafting. We're joined by Denise Mina, who appeared on the Verb in 2019 to share her feelings towards a book she had only just started. What became of it? Listen to find out.Toby Litt's current novel is 'A Writer's Diary'. Initially published in the form of daily emails to subscribers, the lines between fact and fiction appear to blur with every email. How is a work like this drafted? Paul Tran says redrafting of his poems is also a redrafting and a rebuilding of the self...
2022-11-2544 min
The Listening ServiceSong Cycles and Concept AlbumsTom Service explores the world of the song cycle - from the tortured passions and existential angst of Beethoven and Schubert's protagonists in 19th-century Vienna, to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole's ebullient takes on the genre with the birth of the concept album, and Kate Bush's groundbreaking experimental pop suite The Ninth Wave. Our witness today is composer Emily Hall whose work Life Cycle, written with Toby Litt for singer Mara Carlyle, explores the theme of motherhood.Producer: Ruth Thomson
2022-04-1029 minThe VerbThe Twentieth Anniversary VerbIn 2002 a new radio programme was born. It was almost called 'Saturday Speakeasy', but Radio 3 finally settled on 'The Verb'. This is our twentieth anniversary programme, so as you might expect it's packed with energetic language-play, poetry, and prose, and with five new commissions, as we reflect on the ways in which writing and performance have changed in the last two decades, and ask what might happen over the next twenty years. Ian's guests are poets Kate Fox, Malika Booker, Ira Lightman, Luke Wright, Cia Mangat (who was born the same year as The Verb), and novelist...
2022-04-0844 min
Extinction Rebellion PodcastThe Power to Change with Margaret Atwood and Richard BlackThis podcast episode is all about energy and features an extract from our longer interview with the celebrated writer and activist Margaret Atwood While Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil are holding up tankers and stopping oil refineries, the government is sitting on the energy policy it promised after the Ukraine invasion. With rising poverty, rising fuel prices, and rising fears about the future, the question of how quickly and effectively we can transition to clean energy has become urgent. We begin with Oil Music, a short pointed poem by...
2022-04-0448 min
We Get It, Your Dad DiedS2E4: TracyHow often do you actually see other people? How often do you make eye contact and smile at the person working at the grocery check out? Do you always take the opportunity to be present and fully acknowledge the human being right in front of you? This conversation with Tracy Litt inspired me to change the way I approach all these small interactions throughout the day. Tracy’s mother Toby was a master at this. She always took the opportunity to let others know they were seen and loved, even strangers. This was the first ev...
2021-11-2246 min
Elated Geek- Pop Culture Fandoms and Local Discoveries that Spark Joy💥 Strictly Dickly | Spinner Rack KidsIn the bleak, dark world of detective fiction, Corey must hit the mean streets alone if he's going to expose the best comics you should read. With his usual partner out of commission, and no-goodniks at every turn, he must be ever vigilant for danger.
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2021-11-2136 min
Galley Beggar Press podcastsToby Litt reads Uschi Gatward's Oh Whistle And...Toby Litt reads Oh Whistle And... by Uschi Gatward.
Oh Whistle And... comes from Uschi's superb new collection of stories English Magic, which is available now in our online store (www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sho…english-magic) and from all good booksellers.
You might also enjoy reading this fantastic Q&A with Uschi: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/qa-uschi-gatw…english-magic
2021-09-0931 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastIsobel Wohl and Lauren Elkin: Cold New ClimateDescribed by Claire Louise Bennett as ‘lithe and ambitious’ and by Toby Litt as ‘a miracle in book form’, Isobel Wohl’s debut Cold New Climate (Weatherglass) is likely to be one of the most talked about novels of 2021. Encompassing the limits and expectations of love, life and family and the devastation and elation each of those can bring, and our fears for a future that is disappearing as we speed towards it, it’s a book that’s vibrantly conscious of the modern world, and slyly conscious of the tradition it’s coming from. Isobel Wohl was in conversation with Lauren Elki...
2021-06-1659 min
Find Playlist of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessIPCRESS File: Penguin Modern Classics - Len DeightonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: IPCRESS File: Penguin Modern ClassicsAuthor: Len DeightonNarrator: James LaileyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8:46:44Language: EnglishRelease date: 04-29-2021Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, EspionageSummary:Brought to you by Penguin.
Now a new six part ITV drama starring Joe Cole, as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander.
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as...
2021-04-298h 46
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, EspionageThe IPCRESS File: Penguin Modern Classics by Len DeightonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The IPCRESS File: Penguin Modern Classics Author: Len Deighton Narrator: James Lailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 29, 2021 Genres: Espionage Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Now a new six part ITV drama starring Joe Cole, as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into...
2021-04-2905 min
Leesvoer11: De TerugkeerRobert en Martine bespreken 'De Terugkeer', de nieuwe roman van Esther Gerritsen over hoe twee kinderen omgaan met de dood van hun vader Gerrit. Hij was al jaren depressief, kwam zelden nog van de bank voordat hij stierf zo'n twintig jaar geleden. Zelfmoord was destijds de conclusie. Maar Jennie, de jongste, geloof er niks van. Nu, twintig jaar later, gaat ze op onderzoek uit. Een zwaar onderwerp, maar Gerritsen weet er in een heel mooie, lichtvoetige stijl over te schrijven. Verder bespreken we nog kort haar boek 'Superduif' en 'Dit boek redt je leven' van A.M. Homes. In...
2021-02-2434 minThe VerbBrazil - Experiments in LivingThis week Ian McMillan dives into the word 'Brazil' and 'Brazilian', discovering irony, fusion and confusion, and the astonishing ability of one of its most famous novelists, Clarice Lispector, to dilate time. He also translates a Brazilian poem into Yorkshire dialect to see what happens to the tone.Toby Litt
The novelist Toby Litt has become fascinated by the novels of Clarice Lispector, and responds with his own fiction in this, her centenary year. Lispector was born in Ukraine but spent much of her childhood in Recife, also living as an adult in Europe and the USA...
2020-12-1144 min
Extinction Rebellion PodcastEpisode 17 - No More Lies, with Zadie Smith, George Monbiot, Jay Griffiths and more at Tufton StreetWhere is the heart of climate denial in the UK? Who are the main individuals & organisations coming between the people and the policy progress we need to address the climate & ecological emergency?Questions like this led Writers Rebel to organize an action in a quiet, privileged street in the heart of London's parliamentary district.The Writers Rebel action in Tufton Street, No More Lies About Climate Change, has now gone down in Extinction Rebellion history. This episode chronicles that historic event. Compered by Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevensen, the line up was starry and included so...
2020-11-2443 min
Extinction Rebellion PodcastEpisode 17 - No More Lies, with Zadie Smith, George Monbiot, Jay Griffiths and more at Tufton StreetWhere is the heart of climate denial in the UK? Who are the main individuals & organisations coming between the people and the policy progress we need to address the climate & ecological emergency?
Questions like this led Writers Rebel to organize an action in a quiet, privileged street in the heart of London's parliamentary district.
The Writers Rebel action in Tufton Street, No More Lies About Climate Change, has now gone down in Extinction Rebellion history. This episode chronicles that historic event. Compered by Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevensen, the line up was starry and included so many top literary...
2020-11-2400 min
In Bed With the Films We LoveS01E06: Boyhood
Ethan and Talia discuss Richard Linklater’s 2014 film Boyhood. On a melancholy sense of mortality from watching actors age – and the emotional experience of the lead actor watching the film for the first time with their parents; and how the scenes of peril in Boyhood are the opposite of the BBC show Casualty.
links to things discussed in this episode• Toby Litt’s blog post on the hero’s journey• Ellar Coltrane discussing how watching the film affected him and his family• Featurette on making of the film with a rather adorable young Lorelei Linklater •...
2020-11-011h 13
London Review Bookshop PodcastCarcanet New Poetries VIIWe were joined by Toby Litt, Helen Charman, Lisa Kelly and Mary Jean Chan, four of the poets featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII. From the first anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. The New Poetries anthologies have never sought to identify a school, much less a generation: the poets included employ a wide range of styles, forms and approaches, and new need not be taken to imply young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
2020-09-2356 min
writing class radioWe Grant you Permission to Write or Not to WriteToday on our show, we are talking about what we can’t stop talking about, the coronavirus. Every email, text, call starts with, “How are you holding up?” It’s beautiful and exhausting, so we put out a call for coronavirus stories.We have two stories to share. One is by our own Andrea Askowitz who is still living in Madrid. Madrid is one of the most contagious cities on earth and if you’ve seen her videos of her family dancing on FB, you are aware she’s going a little stir-crazy. Writing has helped calm her. ...
2020-04-0127 minThe VerbGoodnessHow can writers make 'goodness' compelling, as a theme or character trait ? Why is virtue-signalling seen as a negative thing? Is poetry the best form for exploring goodness? And do we need more writing about goodness, and more imaginative imagery for it'? Ian McMillan is joined by guests Toby Litt, Will Harris, Kate Fox and Kelcey Wilson-Lee.Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
2020-01-3147 min
CIPFA SpeaksCIPFA Speaks! Dec 2019Seasons greetings from CIPFA! December's episode covers the future of libraries, the 30 year anniversary of the Children Act 1989, and the launch of CIPFA's Financial Resilience Index.
Featuring:
- Toby Litt, author and lecturer and Birkbeck, University of London
- Dr Emma Nottingham, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Winchester
- Carolyn Williamson, CIPFA President
- Carol Culley, Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer, Manchester City Council
- Andy Burns, CIPFA Associate Director
2019-12-1945 min
Galley Beggar Press podcastsGalley Beggar Press Podcast #3: Toby LittToby Litt came round to Galley Beggar Press HQ to sign copies of his new novel Patience. And he also delivered this wonderful talk - but to say more is to spoil a surprise. Listen out for the thunder. And in my pre-intro introduction that funny knocking sound is a dog's tail wagging against a door.
Buy Patience here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/shop-1/patience
2019-10-3131 min
MIR PodcastMIR #9 with Toby Litt - PatienceIn the ninth episode of the MIR Podcast, Angèle Eliane talks to author Toby Litt about his latest novel, Patience. They discuss why the novel took 12 years to write, the importance of finding a voice, and coping with other peoples' success.
For show notes go to: mironline.org/podcasttobylitt/
2019-09-0633 min
Mental Health Book Club PodcastSpecial Edition: PsychART Conference 2018 pt 2
psychART was founded by Psychiatry trainees in 2015
to highlight and celebrate the positive presence of creativity in our
speciality. We aim to explore the role that the Arts can play in the
lives of those living with mental illness, as well as the rewarding
experiences and opportunities available to those working in this field.
Psychiatry training currently faces a recruitment and retention
crisis, which needs to be addressed to continue the provision of high
quality mental health care. Although slowly improving, negative
attitudes towards mental illness are still present within healthcare and
society as a whole, placing...
2019-02-1750 minThe VerbThe Subjunctive VerbIan McMillan gets into the subjunctive mood with brand new writing from Toby Litt, a new poetry commission from Holly Pester, on the subjunctive in welsh with Menna Elfyn and Rob Drummond explains why the subjunctive is dying out amongst the young...Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright
2019-02-0149 min
Festival delle Scienze 2007 "Le età della vita"Toby Litt – WrestlianaClick here to buy the book
When we visit Toby Litt in his office at Birkbeck University of London he tells us that all the books in the building have had to be removed because the Georgian building can’t take the weight. All, it seems, except those in his office, which appears to be single-handedly keeping the faith. This seems right. Toby is very much a man of literature – he teaches creative writing at Birkbeck and he has published thirteen fine novels and collections of stories. But Toby’s new book is not fiction. It is by turns a meditat...
2018-04-2922 min
Saturday ReviewFanny and Alexander, The Nile Hilton Incident, Toby Litt, Minimalism, Cross DressingFanny and Alexander opens at London's Old Vic Theatre. Adapted from Ingmar Bergman's award-winning 1982 film, how well does such a sumptuous film transfer to the stage?
Also coming from Sweden is our film this week (well, to be more accurate, it's a Swedish/German/Egyptian co-production). The Nile Hilton Incident tells the true story of an Egyptian policeman investigating the death of a nightclub singer in Cairo, as The Arab Spring is beginning. But the justice system seems intent on stymieing his work.
Toby Litt's latest novel is Notes For a Young Gentleman. It's told in the form of...
2018-03-0550 minThe VerbNotes on The VerbTaking notes with Ian are Toby Litt and Jude Rogers.Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright.
2018-02-2347 min
Desert Isolation DiscsAuthor and lecturer: Toby LittToby Litt is a writer of impressive breadth and daring. Over two decades as a published author Litt has spanned crime, romance and the down right weird in his novels and short stories. Famed for naming his novels in order, from A to Z, his writing is anything but predictable. As well as his acclaimed works, Litt is a university lecturer in creative writing at Birbeck in London, has written comics, songs and even worked on an opera. I first interviewed him ten years back in Sheffield, and it's a pleasure to renew our acquaintance with an intimate meeting among t...
2016-10-1846 minThe Croydon Arts Show on Croydon RadioThe Croydon Arts Show - Janet SmithThe Croydon Arts Show.
Interviews covering the arts local and further a field. Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week and in the studio Johanna Cordery author "Under 25" a novel that looks at suicide affecting young people and Sangeeta Mahajan a bereaved mother and activist for mental health along with her partner Simon Davies will be talking about some of the issues and what can be done to help young people in distress.
I also have a pre recorded interview with Scoop Films Producer Fiona Gillies on the set of their latest film "After Louise".
Sangeeta...
2016-05-152h 00
This Writing LifeEpisode 46 - Harry Parker: Part 1Harry Parker is a painter and, thanks to his debut Anatomy of a Soldier, a novelist. Before he was either of those, he served in the British Army, first in Iraq and later Afghanistan. ----more----His experiences form the basis for his first book - above all the day he stepped on a landmine planted near his camp in Helmand Province. Parker lost both his legs and endured years of intensive physiotherapy. These absorbing and moving scenes tell only part of Tom Barnes' fictional story. Anatomy of a Soldier is a courageous novel is all sorts of ways. It is narrated...
2016-03-2919 min
Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2016: Utopia: getting somewhere or going nowhere?Contributor(s): Toby Litt, Patrick Parrinder, Samantha Shannon | Our panel of authors and experts discuss the history of the utopian genre in literature and its present state. Toby Litt (@tobylitt) is a bestselling and prize-winning writer, whose ten novels to date include Finding Myself and the science fiction Journey into Space, an innovative contribution to the utopian genre. His most recent book is Life-Like, which has been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015 and long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is also Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College. Patrick Parrinder is Em...
2016-02-261h 23Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2016: Utopia: getting somewhere or going nowhere?Contributor(s): Toby Litt, Patrick Parrinder, Samantha Shannon | Our panel of authors and experts discuss the history of the utopian genre in literature and its present state. Toby Litt (@tobylitt) is a bestselling and prize-winning writer, whose ten novels to date include Finding Myself and the science fiction Journey into Space, an innovative contribution to the utopian genre. His most recent book is Life-Like, which has been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015 and long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is also Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College. Patrick Parrinder is Em...
2016-02-261h 23Festival delle Scienze 2007 "Le età della vita"Toby Litt – Lifelike - Books PodcastIf your taste runs to the dead-pan, you could do worse than read Toby Litt. By turns funny, scabrous, touching, serious, playful and obsessive, his twelfth book, Life-like is presented with an absolutely straight face. How are you supposed to take this? Are you intended to laugh? Is it OK to be aroused? Does that passage really belong in this book? Toby never blinks.
Toby’s interest in form and experimentation is well-established, and so this book is neither properly a novel nor a simple story collection, with the focus flying apart from the starting point of the marriage of Ag...
2014-11-2221 min
Kultur BreakdownChroniques #49 : Kaiju BreakdownNews. Cinéma : Godzilla de Gareth Edwards, Amazing Spider Man Le Destin d’un Héros de Mark Webb. BD/Comics : Dead Boy Detectives de Toby Litt et Mark Buckingham, La Revue Dessinée. Série : Melissa & Joey de David Kendall et Bob Young. Salut à toutes et à tous. Bienvenue pour ces nouvelles chroniques de Kultur Breakdown. Avant toutes choses, …
2014-05-2200 min
Three Percent Podcast#73: The David Peace EpisodeIn this week's podcast, Tom and Chad talk about the works of British writer David Peace. Peace was part of the 2003 version of Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists" (along with Toby Litt, Nicola Baker, David Mitchell, Adam Thirlwell--really solid list), and is the author of nine novels, including the "Red Riding Quartet" (Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty, Nineteen Eighty-Three), the first two volumes of the uncompleted "Tokyo Trilogy" (Tokyo Year Zero and The Occupied City), two books on famous soccer figures (The Damned Utd and Red or Dead), and GB84 about the UK miners' strike. Since Peace's...
2014-04-1548 min
Front Row: Archive 2014Under the Skin; Publicising books; Shetland; Karen Joy FowlerWith Kirsty Lang.Scarlett Johansson plays an alien wandering around Glasgow looking for human prey in Under The Skin, which was filmed without some of the cast realising they were in a movie or that they were talking to a Hollywood star. Novelist Toby Litt delivers his verdict on Jonathan Glazer's adaptation of Michael Farber's science fiction novel.On the day research from the University of Sheffield shows half the country picks up a book at least once a week for pleasure, and 45% prefer television, Front Row looks at the fast changing world of publicising...
2014-03-1128 minFront Row: Archive 2014Armistead Maupin; Folio Prize shortlist; Her; Raphael WallfischWith John Wilson.Armistead Maupin discusses The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth (and possibly final) instalment of his celebrated Tales of the City series of novels. Madrigal is reunited with the former tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, San Francisco, as they prepare to spend time at Burning Man, the avant-garde festival in Nevada. Transgender Anna is now 92, and determined 'to leave like a lady', and embarks on a road trip to the desert - to the brothel where she lived as a teenage boy.Her is the romantic tale of a man (played by Joaquin...
2014-02-1028 min
Ultimate FacepalmSupanova Perth, Image Comics Expo and Captain Planet: THE MOVIEA short one (due to our Man Of Steel review) to keep you going until Sunday. Let’s have at it!
SUPANOVA wrap up
We play our new game “G Money Guesses Groupon!!!!!”
UFP Crew Questions
- Florida Vs George Zimmerman
- Douchebags at Supanova
- Jim Carrey about Kick Ass 2
NEWS!
“Comedian” Josh Thomas once again, pushes the boundary of the definition of “Comedian”
Fifi Box once again, pushes the boundary of “relevancy“
Texan teens Justin Carter hauled off to jail for bad...
2013-07-041h 13
Front Row: Archive 2012Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master; Jim Cartwright returns to the stageWith Mark Lawson. Director Paul Thomas Anderson reflects on his film The Master, which has already won numerous awards and is heavily tipped for Oscar success.In the week that Green Day release the third in a trilogy of albums and Peter Jackson announced that The Hobbit will be divided into three parts, Mark asks whether three is the magic number for films, novels and albums, with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Toby Litt and David Hepworth.Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in the film Smashed, a comedy drama which examines the strains experienced by an alcohol-dependent...
2012-12-1128 min
11 O'Clock Comics Podcast11 O'Clock Comics Episode 237Dark Shadows, American Horror Story: Asylum, Walking Dead, Conan, J. K. Woodward, Tony Harris, Lee Bermejo, Alex Maleev, David Mack, Alex Ross, Ty Templeton, Joe Kubert, inking, Ron Garney, ROM, Micronauts, Alpha Flight, Namor, Ghosts one-shot from Vertigo (Al Ewing, Rufus Dayglo, Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham, Victor Santos, Cecil Castellucci, Amy Reeder, Joe Kubert, Neil Kleid, John McCrea, Mary Choi, Phil Jimenez, Paul Pope, David Lapham, Gilbert Hernandez, Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, and more), Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe from Harper, Batman: The Cult by Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson, and Bill Wray, Marvel's Strange Tales: Werewolf...
2012-11-032h 25Front Row: Archive 2012Janet Suzman; Invisible Art; Cosmopolis reviewWith Mark Lawson. Novelist Toby Litt reviews David Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis, based on the novel by Don DeLillo. It stars Twilight's Robert Pattinson as a billionaire cocooned in his limousine, crossing Manhattan to get a haircut.Janet Suzman has played most of the major theatrical roles for women, including Cleopatra, Ophelia, Shaw's Saint Joan and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Now she has published a book, Not Hamlet, in which she reflects on the 'frail position of women in drama', arguing that they do not enjoy the same status as their male counterparts. A...
2012-06-1128 min
Front Row: Archive 2011Lynne Ramsay; Sir Cameron MackintoshWith Mark Lawson.Director Lynne Ramsay's new film We Need to Talk About Kevin won considerable acclaim at this year's Cannes festival. She discusses adapting Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel for the cinema, where Tilda Swinton plays the tortured mother of Kevin, who goes on a horrific rampage two days before his 16th birthday.Theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh is 65 today. He discusses his four decades in the business, in which he has defied critics with international successes including The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables, which is now set to become a film s...
2011-10-1728 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Romance, ModernThe Tiny Wife by Andrew KaufmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320143 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiny Wife Author: Andrew Kaufman Narrator: Jot Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: September 1, 2011 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: A magical short novel from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes. A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value. As time passes the loss of these items have a dramatic effect on the victims: one discovers God under her sofa, another is attacked by her lion tattoo when it...
2011-09-0105 min