Papertrail Podcast Alex Blott
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Papertrail is a monthly interview series with writers and creatives about the books they love. Writers suggest three books which have made an impression on them and then discuss all three with the show's hosts.
Perfect for avid readers looking for book recommendations and insights into their favourite authors.
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Papertrail Christmas Episode - 2019
Season's greetings, everyone! Join Sophie and Alex as they discuss some of their favourite books from the year, including a round-up of what they read for the show in 2019.
Papertrail is going on hiatus for the first half of 2019, but there are plenty of episodes in the back-catalogue so gorge yourself on them and we'll see you in the future for 'season 2'.
Happy holidays!
Sophie's Choices:
Cassandra At The Wedding - Dorothy Baker Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo From the show:
Prater Violet - Christopher Isherwood This Is Not A Novel - David Markson Constellations - Sinéad Gleeson Alex's Choices:
Ombria in Shadow - Patricia A McKillip The Fisherman - John Langan Doggerland - Ben Smith From the show:
Homesick For Another World - Otessa Moshfegh Grief Is The Thing With Feathers - Max Porter The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
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Lucia Osborne-Crowley on Sophie Mackintosh, Sinéad Gleeson, and Leslie Jamison
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist. Her news reporting and literary work has appeared in Granta, the Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, and others. ‘I Choose Elena’ is her first book.
Lucia's Book Choices:
Make It Scream Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison Constellations: Reflections from life by Sinéad Gleeson The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh You can follow Lucia on twitter @LuciaOC_
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Anna Sherman on Sanshiro, Ghosts of the Tsunami, and The Snow Leopard
Anna Sherman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and at Lincoln College, Oxford. The Bells of Old Tokyo is her first book.
Anna's Book Choices: Sanshiro by Natsume Sōseki
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
You can follow Anna on twitter @anna_charlbury
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Season Butler on Toni Morrison, Leonora Carrington, and Aldous Huxley
Season is a London and Berlin-based writer, performance artist and teacher, and an associate producer of the I'm With You art collective. She works as a dramaturg, mentor, sensitivity editor and workshop facilitator in Creative Writing, Performance Practice and Theory, and difference-consciousness training for the arts and heritage sector. Cygnet is her first novel.
Season's Book Choices: Island by Aldous Huxley The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison You can follow Season on twitter @season_butler
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Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou on Alan Moore, Craig Thompson, and Mike Figgis
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou is a Writer, a Comics Letterer, and the Eisner Award-Winning Editor of PanelxPanel. He has written for screen and for comics, and also runs the excellent Strip Panel Naked on YouTube.
Hass's Book Choices:
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Blankets by Craig Thompson Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis You can follow Hass on Twitter @HassanOE
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Hannah Sullivan on: Rachel Cusk, Christopher Isherwood, and Robert Lowell
Hannah Sullivan is a poet and academic currently working at Oxford University. Her first collection of poetry, Three Poems, was published in 2018 and won the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Hannah's Book Choices:
Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood Notebook by Robert Lowell You can find out more about Hannah on her website.
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Customer Reviews
Great book chat
This is always a great listen. I really enjoy listening to interesting people talking enthusiastically and openly about their influential books. Check it out.
Interesting selection of books
Well worth a listen. Each of the authors comes up with some interesting selections, many of which I would never have found myself. Discussing the books without spoiling the plot can be tricky sometimes, and some interviews manage this better than others. One new podcast is released every month, so it is worth subscribing.
Glad I found it!
I came across these podcasts when I was looking for something to feed my interest in literature post-university. I was intrigued by the list of authors, particularly as I hadn't come across them before and like to find out about new books. I also liked the idea of asking them about their favourite novels and finding out why they enjoyed them so much - it can help me appreciate books I may have previously dismissed. The interviewer Alex facilitates well and lets the authors do most of the talking. He clearly enjoys the subject and has read his fair share, so holds his own in the discussion and asks relevant questions. My only complaint would be that the sound is very slightly fuzzy!