Bedste Meena Mason-podcasts (2024)

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Chapter 7 - The Thief's Tale 48:24

18h ago48:24

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The cat is out of the bag. The love birds united at last, but, alas, revealing your affection for the love of your life does not supplant the warrant for your arrest nor will it prevent a determined dungeon keeper from stretching your neck at the end of a well-tied noose. Only preparation, craftiness and a lot of luck will do that. While Kessa heal…

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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian 1:09:23

7d ago1:09:23

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A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, present and the future—on Manson Family Alumnus Leslie Van Houyten, on History, on Death, on the Occult, on what it means to be “sensitive”…and so much more besides. All the while she is distracted, bother…

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Teaser for Chapter 5 of The Thief's Tale 0:21

23d ago0:21

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Teaser for Chapter 5 of Meena Mason's The Thief's Tale. Read by the author.Af Meena Mason

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Chapter 6 - The Thief's Tale 41:09

23d ago41:09

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Kessa Decora is no stranger to letting her feelings show; unless those feelings happened to be her deepest and most secret feelings. Feelings so secret even she is unaware she has them. Feelings that could toss her into a moat of insecurity, swirl her in a whirlpool of doubt, and leave her for the pragmatism piranhas to devour. The stars have align…

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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry” 56:12

25d ago56:12

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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…

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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh) 1:01:11

1M ago1:01:11

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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…

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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024) 55:28

2M ago55:28

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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

2M ago42:04

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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…

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Chapter 5 - The Thief's Tale 46:01

2M ago46:01

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Who struck Kessa Decora over the head? When consciousness finally returns, what new predicament will the fugitive find herself in this time? And will it widen the rift forming between her and Aquestria? Chapter 5 of the audiobook version of Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale. Chapter 5 Excerpt: The merry chirping of birds, usually a cheerful sound to …

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

2M ago37:35

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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

2M ago47:31

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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…

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Chapter 4 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:18

3M ago0:18

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Chapter 4 Teaser for Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale, audiobook.Af Meena Mason

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Chapter 3 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:18

3M ago0:18

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Chapter 3 Teaser for Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale, Audiobook.Af Meena Mason

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Chapter 1 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:20

3M ago0:20

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Teaser for Chapter 1 of Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale, audiobook.Af Meena Mason

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The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:59

3M ago0:59

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A teaser for Meena Mason's, The Theif's Tale, audiobook.Af Meena Mason

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

3M ago1:00:38

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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …

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Chapter 4 - The Thief's Tale 22:06

3M ago22:06

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Temporary respite, indeed! Narrowly dodging the grip of the noose, Kessa finds her hands tied when her motives are uncomfortably probed and savagely scrutinized. Chapter 4 of the audiobook version of Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale. Chapter 4 Excerpt: Water dripping from her blonde hair, Kessa trailed behind sulkily, kicking at stones, muttering, a…

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Chapter 3 - The Thief's Tale 41:00

3M ago41:00

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By the skin of their teeth, fugitives, Kessa and Aquestria, finally reach Aquina, but some unexpected news sets them back. Or does it? Chapter 3 of Meena Mason's audio edition of The Thief's Tale. Chapter 3 Excerpt: Dismayed to see wanted posters of themselves plastered all over the city, Aquestria tugged her hooded sister away from the food stands…

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

3M ago1:02:53

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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…

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Chapter 1 - The Thief's Tale 39:08

3M ago39:08

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The so called king of Acara has visited his dungeon keeper, a legendary fighter, tracker, and executioner. Why? Does it have anything to do with two sisters on the run? This is the audio version of Meena Mason's, The Thief's Tale, Book 1 of the Acaran Legends Series. Read to you by the author. Chapter 1 excerpt: “Seriously, Kes, we’ve no money, not…

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Chapter 2 - The Thief's Tale 53:02

3M ago53:02

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The dungeon keeper's pursuit intensifies. Will the two fugitives be ensnared in his trap or will they just managed to slip through the cracks? Excerpt from Chapter 2: Kessa was relieved when they’d finally found water. She was not only starving, but parched as well. Stooping to the stream’s edge, she sipped the delicious, cool water. She’d barely s…

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

3M ago52:34

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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…

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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey 58:12

3M ago58:12

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We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the life of her late wife—an artist who went by many names, but who she knew only as X—it quickly becomes clear that, in Biography of X, it’s not just one life being ca…

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Chapter 32 of Because of a Woman - Conclusion 11:19

3M ago11:19

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Audio version of Because of a Woman by Meena Mason. Read to you by the author. Chapter 32 Book Cover Synopsis: A dry desert, vultures circling, a man, half-dead, lashed to an oak tree in nothing but his briefs -- the story begins. Famous bounty-hunter, Paxton Reign, has been left for dead. It all started because of a woman -- a beautiful woman and …

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Chapter 31 - Because of a Woman 7:37

3M ago7:37

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Audio version of Because of a Woman by Meena Mason. Read to you by the author. Book Cover Synopsis: A dry desert, vultures circling, a man, half-dead, lashed to an oak tree in nothing but his briefs -- the story begins. Famous bounty-hunter, Paxton Reign, has been left for dead. It all started because of a woman -- a beautiful woman and a dangerous…

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Chapter 30 - Because of a Woman 9:26

3M ago9:26

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Audio version of Because of a Woman by Meena Mason. Read to you by the author. Book Cover Synopsis: A dry desert, vultures circling, a man, half-dead, lashed to an oak tree in nothing but his briefs -- the story begins. Famous bounty-hunter, Paxton Reign, has been left for dead. It all started because of a woman -- a beautiful woman and a dangerous…

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Chapter 29 - Because of a Woman 38:39

3M ago38:39

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Audio version of Because of a Woman by Meena Mason. Read to you by the author. Book Cover Synopsis: A dry desert, vultures circling, a man, half-dead, lashed to an oak tree in nothing but his briefs -- the story begins. Famous bounty-hunter, Paxton Reign, has been left for dead. It all started because of a woman -- a beautiful woman and a dangerous…

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Chapter 28 - Because of a Woman - 21:00

3M ago21:00

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Audio version of Because of a Woman by Meena Mason. Read to you by the author. Book Cover Synopsis: A dry desert, vultures circling, a man, half-dead, lashed to an oak tree in nothing but his briefs -- the story begins. Famous bounty-hunter, Paxton Reign, has been left for dead. It all started because of a woman -- a beautiful woman and a dangerous…

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The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Chapter 7 - The Thief's Tale 48:24

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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian 1:09:23

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Teaser for Chapter 5 of The Thief's Tale 0:21

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Chapter 6 - The Thief's Tale 41:09

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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry” 56:12

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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh) 1:01:11

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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024) 55:28

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

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Chapter 5 - The Thief's Tale 46:01

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

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Chapter 4 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:18

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Chapter 3 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:18

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Chapter 1 - The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:20

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The Thief's Tale Teaser 0:59

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

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Chapter 4 - The Thief's Tale 22:06

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Chapter 3 - The Thief's Tale 41:00

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

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Chapter 1 - The Thief's Tale 39:08

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Chapter 2 - The Thief's Tale 53:02

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey 58:12

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Chapter 32 of Because of a Woman - Conclusion 11:19

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Chapter 31 - Because of a Woman 7:37

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Chapter 30 - Because of a Woman 9:26

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Chapter 29 - Because of a Woman 38:39

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Chapter 28 - Because of a Woman - 21:00

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