The Digested Read podcast
The Guardian
A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Networks:
The Guardian
Description:
A podcast version of John Crace's wickedly satirical Guardian column, lampooning the literary style of leading authors by summarising their books in five minutes
Twitter:
@GuardianBooks
Language:
English
Contact:
Kings Place, 90 York Way London N1 9GU +4420 3 353 2000
Website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Email:
userhelp@guardian.co.uk
Episodes
EL James: black and blue and read all over? – books podcast
12/31/2015
John Crace whips through the lastest instalment of EL James’s sado-masochistic bestseller, Grey, and asks if it’s time to apply the safe word
Duration:00:14:32
Michel Houellebecq: profane or prophetic? – books podcast
12/30/2015
John Crace squashes Houellebecq’s Submission and asks whether the sacred monster of French fiction is just making trouble for its own sake
Duration:00:16:33
TS Eliot: beyond commentary? – books podcast
12/29/2015
John Crace puts the annotated editon of the Nobel laureate’s poetical works through the wringer and assesses the stature of the modernist master
Duration:00:16:12
Kazuo Ishiguro: roaring giant or sleeping dragon? – books podcast
12/28/2015
John Crace boils down The Buried Giant and asks whether this genre-bending quest novel is destined for the halls of glory or the mists of forgetfulness
Duration:00:15:43
Harper Lee: a happy return to Maycomb? – books podcast
12/25/2015
John Crace puts the squeeze on Go Set a Watchman, and considers its effect on the author’s reputation
Duration:00:15:18
Hillary Clinton: the big reveal? – books podcast
1/2/2015
John Crace digests Hillary Clinton’s latest autobiography, and picks it over for clues to vital questions – what does she really think of Obama?
Duration:00:09:28
Haruki Murakami: Cult of the colourless? - books podcast
1/1/2015
John Crace digests Murakami's latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage, and wonders if the bestselling Japanese author has bleached the life out of his fiction
Duration:00:10:17
Val McDermid: Jane Austen's equal? - books podcast
12/31/2014
John Crace digests Val McDermid’s update of Northanger Abbey, and asks if her attempt to square up to Austen’s gothic melodrama is fine or foolhardy• More digested reads podcasts
Duration:00:12:05
Caitlin Moran: all about the girl, again - books podcast
12/30/2014
John Crace digests Caitlin Moran’s debut novel, How to Build a Girl, down to 600 words, and wonders what it adds to the autobiography that set her on the crest of the fourth wave of feminism
Duration:00:10:46
Martin Amis: back in the danger zone? - books podcast
12/29/2014
John Crace digests Martin Amis’s new novel The Zone of Interest down to 600 words, and wonders if he was wise to return to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Duration:00:11:55
Stephen Fry: low tales of the high life - books podcast
12/26/2014
John Crace digests Stephen Fry’s latest memoir, More Fool Me, down to 600 words, and finds the nation’s favourite luvvie adrift in a blizzard of names and white powder
Duration:00:14:12
Karl Ove Knausgaard : Proust or poseur? - books podcast
12/25/2014
John Crace digests Karl Ove Knausgaard’s multi-volume autobiographical fiction, My Struggle, and asks if it is exceptional in anything apart from length• More digested read podcasts
Duration:00:12:56
Russell Brand: the raffish revolutionary - books podcast
12/24/2014
In the first of a daily series of digested reads, John Crace considers Russell Brand’s political manifesto, RevolutionMore digested read podcasts
Duration:00:10:21
Iain Banks: a death foretold? - books podcast
12/31/2013
John Crace digests Iain Banks' last novel The Quarry, about a man dying of cancer, down to 600 words, and explains how satire can be powered by affection
Duration:00:11:06
JK Rowling: a question of identity – books podcast
12/30/2013
John Crace boils down JK Rowling's first crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling – published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith – into just 600 words
Duration:00:11:28
Roddy Doyle: gutsy performance or needs more commitment? – books podcast
12/29/2013
John Crace boils down Roddy Doyle's sequel to The Commitments, The Guts, into just 600 words, while Caspar Llewellyn Smith and Hannah Freeman debate the merits of Jimmy Rabitte's return
Duration:00:09:47
Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath – books podcast
12/28/2013
John Crace digests Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath down to just 600 words, and Oliver Burkeman joins him to discuss whether popular science books have reached a tipping point
Duration:00:15:08
TS Eliot: giant of poetry or literary obsessive? – books podcast
12/27/2013
John Crace boils down the fourth volume of TS Eliot's Letters into just 600 words, while Nicholas Wroe examines their importance for understanding a great poet
Duration:00:14:58
Morrissey's autobiography: vain or glorious? – books podcast
12/26/2013
John Crace digests Morrissey's Autobiography down to just 600 words, while Will Woodward and Caspar Llewellyn Smith wonder if the one-time Smiths frontman is as cool as he thinks he is
Duration:00:12:09
Richard Dawkins: intellectual titan or tiresome self-publicist? – books podcast
12/24/2013
John Crace boils Richard Dawkins's memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, down to just 600 words, while Ian Sample and Andrew Brown consider his life and work
Duration:00:12:50