Our guest on episode 8 is Nikesh Shukla, writer, editor, rapper, and advocate for BAME voices in publishing. We talked about the pervasiveness of social media, the upcoming US edition of The Good Immigrant, and his response to the ubiquity of fictional white boys with dogs called Timmy.
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Books mentioned on the show:
Everything I Know About Love, by Dolly Alderton
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, by Lucy Mangan
Dear Mrs. Bird, by A J Pearce
In Our Mad and Furious City, by Guy Gunaratne
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder, by Sarah Harris
Bitter Orange, by Claire Fuller
Transcription, by Kate Atkinson
Coconut Unlimited, by Nikesh Shukla
Meatspace, by Nikesh Shukla
The Good Immigrant, ed. Nikesh Shukla
The One Who Wrote Destiny, by Nikesh Shukla
Feel Free: Essays, by Zadie Smith
The Adulterants, by Joe Dunthorne
I Still Dream, by Jane Smythe
The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureshi
Happiness for Humans, by PZ Reizin
The Fandom, by Anna Day
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote, by Jane Robinson
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, by Joanna Cannon
Three Things About Elsie, by Joanna Cannon
Anatomy of a Scandal, by Sarah Vaughan
(A note on my book links: they take you to Amazon, and I get a few pence per sale at no extra cost to you if you click them and buy from there, which will help me make this podcast viable long-term. But better than Amazon, who are, let’s be honest, not the greatest, is Blackwells or Waterstones, or, even better, your local independent bookshop. If you live in the US or elsewhere further afield, you can find UK books at Book Depository (also owned by Amazon) at a good price and with no postage cost, or even better, an independent bookshop.)
