On the Road with Penguin Classics

William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence. Pullman has written frequently about Blake and previously served as President of the William Blake Society. Blake’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33866/selected-poems-blake-by-william-blake-ed-professor-g-e-bentley-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424461 https://apple.co/48HX8yM Naxos Audiobooks edition of Blake’s poetry, read by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney and Stephen Critchlow https://naxosaudiobooks.com/blake-william-selections/ https://apple.co/3tRg676 Sir Philip Pullman https://www.philip-pullman.com/ Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman https://www.davidficklingbooks.com/shop/ItemDetails.php?pubID=190 https://apple.co/4aVkHpC Audiobook edition of Daemon Voices https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309349/daemon-voices-by-pullman-philip/9780241372906 https://apple.co/47NE6Gl The Blake Society https://blakesociety.org/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés. Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the novel for Merchant Ivory productions. 2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351 https://apple.co/3Hnscrz Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available April 4th 2024 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224 Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/ https://apple.co/4aTk0go Caryl Phillips https://www.carylphillips.com/ The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés. Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the novel for Merchant Ivory productions. 2024 marks 100 years since Baldwin was born Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin-introduction-by-caryl-phillips/9780141186351 https://apple.co/3Hnscrz Penguin Audio edition of Giovanni’s Room – available June 6th 2024 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56260/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9781802067224 Calliope Author Readings – James Baldwin http://calliopeauthorreadings.com/james-baldwin/ https://apple.co/4aTk0go Caryl Phillips https://www.carylphillips.com/ The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/130570/the-european-tribe-by-caryl-phillips/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried. In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography of Donne, Super-Infinite. Donne's prose masterpiece Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was published 400 years ago in January 1624. Donne’s Selected Poems (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33860/selected-poems-donne-by-john-donne-ed-professor-ilona-bell-series-editor--christopher-ricks/9780140424409 https://apple.co/48S5406 Donne’s Selected Prose (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34100/selected-prose-by-donne-john/9780141396712 https://apple.co/47NE1m1 Naxos audiobook edition of Donne’s poetry, read by Geoffrey Whitehead and Will Keen https://naxosaudiobooks.com/john-donne-selections/ https://apple.co/3vHDpk8 Katherine Rundell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Rundell https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/katherine-rundell/ Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (Faber) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571345922-super-infinite/ https://apple.co/47DGDCx Audiobook edition of Super-Infinite https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571378258-super-infinite/ https://apple.co/3TSyR4I Lincoln’s Inn https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/ St Dunstan in the West https://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/ St Paul’s Cathedral https://www.stpauls.co.uk/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454 Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, read by Bernadette Dunne https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle?sp=15364 The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430 Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871 Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780241387801 Penguin Audio edition of Life Among the Savages, read by Kate Handford https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994901 Ruth Franklin https://ruthfranklin.substack.com/ Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/ The Moonscones Micro-Bakery http://www.moonscones.com/ Powers Market https://powersmarket.com/ The John G McCullough Free Library https://mcculloughlibrary.org/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as many other fairy tales. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57621/the-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault-by-angela-carter-intro--jack-zipes/9780141189956 Dame Marina Warner https://www.marinawarner.com/ Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/once-upon-a-time-9780198779858 https://apple.co/3TGDZJb From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358658/from-the-beast-to-the-blonde-by-marina-warner/9781409028635 https://apple.co/48xHQfy The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-by-angela-carter/9780099588115 https://apple.co/3H1huqG Audible edition of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, read by Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bloody-Chamber-Audiobook/B07B5C8MMK https://apple.co/3tMYcSO Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on 19 December 1843, 180 years ago this year. Penguin Classics edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-charles-dickens-intro-michael-slater/9780140439052 https://apple.co/3Te9UQQ Penguin Audio edition of A Christmas Carol, read by Theo Ogundipe https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34585/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-writings-by-dickens-charles/9780241455326 https://apple.co/46OVnhC Simon Callow https://simoncallow.com/ Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/charles-dickens-and-the-great-theatre-of-the-world-simon-callow Simon’s solo version of A Christmas Carol (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kwg The Counting House https://www.the-counting-house.com/ The Royal Exchange https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/ The George and Vulture https://george-and-vulture.co.uk/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violence, nadsat, brainwashing and Beethoven. Penguin Classics ‘Restored Edition’ of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/182137/a-clockwork-orange-by-burgess-anthony/9780141197531 https://apple.co/41d2sHC Penguin Audio edition of A Clockwork Orange, read by Tom Hollander https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/384903/a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess/9781407058542 https://apple.co/3Te9HNy Jeff Noon http://jeffnoon.weebly.com/ Vurt by Jeff Noon (30th anniversary edition) https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/vurt/ Andrew Biswell https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-andrew-biswell The International Anthony Burgess Foundation https://www.anthonyburgess.org/ The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/andrew-biswell/the-real-life-of-anthony-burgess/9780330481717 Christopher Hawtree http://www.christopherhawtree.com/ The Neptune Inn https://theneptunelivemusicbar.co.uk/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled and hilarious Chandler tribute, Sleeping Dog. Penguin Classics omnibus edition of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57024/the-big-sleep-and-other-novels-by-raymond-chandler/9780141182612 https://apple.co/3uH9E2J Penguin Audio edition of Farewell, My Lovely, read by Scott Brick https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/11358/farewell-my-lovely-by-chandler-raymond/9780241989418 https://apple.co/3NatWrM Dick Lochte https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dick-lochte/ Penguin Crime Classics edition of Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241656921 https://apple.co/3sV2583 Penguin Audio edition of Sleeping Dog, read by Robert G. Slade and Daniela Vanasco https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458455/sleeping-dog-by-lochte-dick/9780241671726 https://apple.co/47B39g9 Santa Monica City Hall https://www.santamonica.gov/places/city-facilities/santa-monica-city-hall The Georgian https://www.thegeorgian.com/ Santa Monica Pier https://www.santamonicapier.org/ Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/litmaps/item/4934?exhibit=130&page=1028 Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Producer – Megan Tan: https://www.megantan.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth (author of Being You) and the poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley), discussing Romantic literature, early nineteenth-century science and the mystery of consciousness. Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-ed-maurice-hindle/9780141439471 https://apple.co/47HB0DU Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625 https://apple.co/3us6tvv Anil Seth https://www.anilseth.com/ Being You by Anil Seth (Faber) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/ https://apple.co/40QlhQQ Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/ https://apple.co/46t21tQ Fiona Sampson https://twitter.com/FionaRSampson In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson (Profile) https://profilebooks.com/work/in-search-of-mary-shelley-the-girl-who-wrote-frankenstein/ https://apple.co/49T6f0A Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244 https://apple.co/46t274G Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution https://www.brlsi.org/ Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein https://www.houseoffrankenstein.com/ St Mary’s Churchyard https://www.stmaryschurchyard.com/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jane Austen in Chawton. The novelist Monica Ali joins Henry to visit Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote all of her novels – as well as nearby Chawton House, once owned by Austen’s brother Edward and now home to the Centre for the Study of Early Women’s Writing. Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780141439518 https://apple.co/3MNDOaq Penguin Audio edition of Pride and Prejudice, read by Indira Varma https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55905/pride-and-prejudice-by-austen-jane/9780241455265 https://apple.co/3sFgFQY Monica Ali https://www.monicaali.com/ Love Marriage by Monica Ali https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9780349015507/ https://apple.co/3usPBVi Penguin audiobook edition of Love Marriage, read by Ayesha Dharker https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/monica-ali/love-marriage/9781405550291/ https://apple.co/47dHaMc Jane Austen’s House https://janeaustens.house/ Chawton House https://chawtonhouse.org/ Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shirley Jackson in Bennington, Vermont. For this spooky Halloween special, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin joins Henry to haunt the eery corridors of the derelict Everett Mansion, the house that may well have inspired the greatest ghost story ever written, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133430/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191447 https://apple.co/45OjA79 Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of The Haunting of Hill House, read by Bernadette Dunne https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-haunting-of-hill-house?sp=17673 https://apple.co/46I1m8K Ruth Franklin http://ruthfranklin.substack.com/ Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/ https://apple.co/475esgb Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, read by Bernadette Dunne https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/shirley-jackson?sp=67707 https://apple.co/40fy133 Edward H. Everett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hamlin_Everett The Everett Mansion https://svclookingglass.com/4321/entertainment/the-ghosts-of-everett-mansion/ Ghost Hunters Series 10 Episode 10 https://www.syfy.com/ghost-hunters/photos/darker-learning-season-10-episode-10 Southern Vermont Healthcare Realty https://svhealthcare.org/news/svhc-introduces-real-estate-developer-for-former-college-campus Alfred Weissman Real Estate https://www.awre.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaZDC4nyjo Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Lucy Little: https://www.lucyalittle.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different location to discuss a great work of literature with a different guest. In series four, Henry's guests include Monica Ali, Katherine Rundell, Simon Callow, Marina Warner, Caryl Phillips, Anil Seth and Philip Pullman. They discuss the love stories of Jane Austen and James Baldwin, the fantasies of Charles Dickens and Angela Carter, the thrillers of Raymond Chandler and Anthony Burgess, the horrors of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson and the poetry of John Donne and William Blake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Henry introduces Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, the perfect stocking-filler for book-lovers. Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? In this eclectic gallimaufry, Henry showcases some of his favourite literary lists: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous – and everything in between ­– Eliot's lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448329/eliots-book-of-bookish-lists-by-eliot-henry/9780241562727 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Bunyan in Bedfordshire. The novelist Rachel Joyce joins Henry as they follow in the footsteps of Bunyan’s pilgrim Christian, as he walks from Bedford, or the City of Destruction, to London, the Celestial City. Along the way they visit the Slough of Despond (Elstow), the Palace Beautiful (Houghton House) and Vanity Fair (Ampthill). They start at the Bunyan Meeting House, where they meet John Pestell, and finish at Bunyan’s resting place, Bunhill Fields. 2022 marks the 350th anniversary of the Bunyan Meeting House on its current site. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Penguin Classics) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60345/the-pilgrims-progress-by-john-bunyan-ed-dr-roger-pooley/9780141439716 https://apple.co/3rtwupL The Pilgrim’s Progress, read by David Shaw-Parker (Naxos Audiobook) https://naxosaudiobooks.com/pilgrim-s-progress-the-unabridged/ https://apple.co/3dJ7Lu6 Rachel Joyce https://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/413693/the-unlikely-pilgrimage-of-harold-fry-by-joyce-rachel/9780552778091 https://apple.co/3BPScJe The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/420794/the-love-song-of-miss-queenie-hennessy-by-joyce-rachel/9781784160302 https://apple.co/3BKnW2p Maureen and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448497/maureen-fry-and-the-angel-of-the-north-by-joyce-rachel/9780857529008 https://apple.co/3CcaGF2 Travel with John Bunyan by John Pestell https://www.dayone.co.uk/products/travel-with-john-bunyan John Bunyan Meeting House and Museum https://www.bunyanmeeting.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tayeb Salih in London. The novelist Leila Aboulela meets Henry in London to discuss Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, which was voted the most important Arab novel of the 20th century by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus. The novel is set in both a small village in northern Sudan and various locations in London, the city that Tayeb Salih made his home. Leila and Henry visit Victoria Station, Speaker’s Corner, the London Central Mosque, the Old Bailey and Cleopatra’s Needle. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Penguin Modern Classics) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57444/season-of-migration-to-the-north-by-tayeb-salih-trans-denys-johnson-davies/9780141187204 Leila Aboulela http://www.leila-aboulela.com/ The Translator by Leila Aboulela https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/ https://apple.co/3UGl6Uy The Minaret by Leila Aboulela https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/ https://apple.co/3xSuwTq London Central Mosque https://www.iccuk.org/ The Old Bailey https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics) https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tayeb-salih/products/the-wedding-of-zein Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon. The translator and biographer Richard Zenith meets Henry in Lisbon to sift the fragments of Fernando Pessoa’s extraordinary ‘non-book’, The Book of Disquiet. They visit the cafes where Pessoa liked to drink, they meet Clara Riso, director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa, and they walk from the hills of Lisbon to the edge of the River Tagus. 2022 is the 40th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of The Book of Disquiet. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Modern Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57066/the-book-of-disquiet-by-fernando-pessoatransrichard-zenith/9780241200131 https://apple.co/3SjNQRq The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith, read by Adam Sims (Naxos Audiobook) https://naxosaudiobooks.com/book-of-disquiet-the-unabridged/ https://apple.co/3dIY9iY Pessoa’s poems, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/62448/a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-by-fernando-pessoa-trans-richard-zenith/9780143039556 Fernando & Co.: Selected Poems, trans. Richard Zenith https://groveatlantic.com/book/fernando-pessoa-co/ Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445182/pessoa-by-zenith-richard/9780141998299 https://apple.co/3raTI3F Casa Fernando Pessoa https://www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp Café a Brasileira https://www.abrasileira.pt/?lang=en Café Martinho da Arcada https://martinhodaarcada.pt/ Livraria Bertrand, the oldest bookshop in the world https://www.bertrand.pt/livrarias/livraria-bertrand-chiado/900 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

E. M. Forster in Cambridge. The cultural historian Diarmuid Hester joins Henry to explore the streets and colleges of Cambridge before escaping to the greenwood to discuss Maurice by E. M. Forster, his novel of same-sex love that remained unpublished throughout his lifetime. Diarmuid and Henry visit King’s College, where Forster lived both as an undergraduate and an honorary fellow and they visit Madingley Hall and Madingley Dell. 2021 was the 50th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of Maurice in 1971. Maurice by E. M. Forster (Penguin Classics edition) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60370/maurice-by-ed--steven-d-levitt-em-forster/9780141441139 Maurice by E. M. Forster, read by Ben Whishaw (Audible audiobook) https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Maurice-Audiobook/B08CVRKWYH https://apple.co/3LNOqEF Diarmuid Hester https://www.diarmuidhester.com/ Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445054/nothing-ever-just-disappears-by-hester-diarmuid/9780241528457 https://apple.co/3RgFU20 King’s College Archive https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/e-m-forster-and-king-s Madingley Hall https://www.madingleyhall.co.uk/ Adrian Barlow’s article about Madingley Dell http://adrianbarlowsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-threat-to-madingley-dell.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leonora Carrington in the Ardèche. The journalist and biographer Joanna Moorhead joins Henry in the south of France to discuss her cousin, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. They trace Carrington’s life story to Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche, where she lived with the artist Max Ernst, and discuss her spectacular feminist, eco-apocalypse novel The Hearing Trumpet. Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57481/the-hearing-trumpet-by-leonora-carrington-intro--ali-smith/9780141187990 Naxos audiobook of The Hearing Trumpet, read by Siân Phillips https://naxosaudiobooks.com/hearing-trumpet-the-unabridged/ https://apple.co/3dOYfpp Joanna Moorhead http://www.joannamoorhead.org/ The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/joanna-moorhead/the-surreal-life-of-leonora-carrington/9780349008776/ https://apple.co/3SCdDUU Leonora Carrington at the Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615 Leonora Carrington at the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen https://uk.arken.dk/udstilling/leonora-carrington/ Leonora Carrington at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City https://mam.inba.gob.mx/leonora-carrington-cuentos-magicos Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/saint-martin-d-ardeche-29317.htm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas de Quincey & William S. Burroughs in Soho. The novelist Will Self joins Henry in London to explore the opium dreams and heroin nightmares of Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and William S. Burrough’s Junky. They walk from Oxford Street to Covent Garden, and along the way they also discuss The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley and Will’s own 2019 drugs memoir, Will. 2022 is the 200th anniversary of the book publication of Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Penguin Classics edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34581/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-by-thomas-de-quincey-ed--barry-milligan/9780140439014 https://apple.co/3SDKmZI Naxos audiobook of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, read by Gunnar Cauthery https://naxosaudiobooks.com/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-unabridged/ https://apple.co/3SgGjTB Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky by William S. Burroughs https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57608/junky-by-william-s-burroughs-intro-oliver-harris/9780141189826 https://apple.co/3UIuIOz W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelson https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291 https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt Will Self https://will-self.com/ Will by Will Self https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402 https://apple.co/3r89gVZ W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Self https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219 https://apple.co/3r8QZrh The Colony Room Club – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/13/from-francis-bacon-to-tracey-emin-soho-historic-colony-room-club-in-pictures William S. Burroughs and the Moka Bar https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/how-william-s-burroughs-shut-down-londons-first-espresso-bar-1972.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.