HeyJaredBooks Up Close: The Podcast
Books Up Close is a show for writers, readers, and anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
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Books Up Close: The Podcast (TRAILER) (opens the original)
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This is Books Up Close: The Podcast. It's a show for readers, writers and anyone interested in how texts get made. Chris Lloyd - poet, scholar, critic - interviews authors about an excerpt of their work and they closely read it together. This is the kind of literary chat you won't hear elsewhere Guests include: Torrey Peters, Garth Greenwell, Lola Olufemi, Abigail Bergstrom, Kieran Yates, Carys Davies, Fatima Bhutto, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Sara Ahmed, Saleem Haddad, Elaine Castillo, Richard Scott,
Ep. 41. Wayne Holloway-Smith, RABBITBOX (Repetition, Shadows) (opens the original)
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In today's episode I talk to Wayne Holloway-Smith's new book RABBITBOX. Wayne Holloway-Smith is the author of three books, Alarum and Love Minus Love, both published by Bloodaxe Books, and RABBITBOX, recently published by Scribner UK. He's been shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, won the National Poetry Competition and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. He teaches and lives in London. Book recs: * Denise Riley, A Chorus of Ears: On 'The Voice of the Poem' * Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack and Honey * Nuar A
Ep. 40. Remi Kalir, Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice (Attention, Time-Travel) (opens the original)
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In today's episode I talk to Remi Kalir about his book Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/re-marks-on-power-how-annotation-inscribes-history-literacy-and-justice-remi-kalir/de85990bb0070b49?ean=9780262551038&bkshp-astro=t] Remi Kalir is a scholar and practitioner of annotation. He studies how annotation facilitates social, collaborative, and justice-directed learning. Remi is the author of two books published by MIT Press–R
Ep. 39. Kieran Yates, All the Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us (Objects, Material Conditions) (opens the original)
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In today's episode I talk to Kieran Yates about her nonfiction book All the Houses I've Ever Lived In [https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/All-The-Houses-Ive-Ever-Lived-In/Kieran-Yates/9781398509856] (2023). Kieran Yates is a London based journalist and author who has written everywhere from The Guardian and The Independent to Dazed and Vice. Her debut book, all the houses ive ever lived in is a meditation on home and the politics of the housing crisis. Book recs: * Eula Biss, Having and Be
Ep. 38. Ashley Clark, The World of Black Film / Daughters of the Dust (Temporality, Crossfades) (opens the original)
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In today's episode I talk to Ashley Clark about his new book The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-world-of-black-film-a-journey-through-cinematic-blackness-in-100-films-with-a-foreword-by-john-akomfrah-ashley-clark/5e4d52d0512161d9?ean=9781529438253&bkshp-astro=t] (2026) as well as Julie Dash's canonical film Daughters of the Dust [https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-daughters-of-the-dust-1991-online]. Ashl
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