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Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria. Plus revisiting Jean Rhys with Miranda Seymour and Jo Hamya.

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish, the ex-Marine whose debut won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His new novel The War for Gloria explores modern masculinity and misogyny through the lens of Corey and his ill mother, documenting his troubled relationship with his father.

Jean Rhys is best known for her adrift female characters in Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight. Miranda Seymour discusses her new biography of this much mythologised figure and alongside Jo Hamya, guides us through the important work of the Dominica-born writer.

Plus Booker-shortlisted Maggie Shipstead choses a book she'd never lend.

Books list
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys by Carole Angier
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 26 May 2022 15:30

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Photographer Ryan Hermans

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  • Sun 22 May 2022 16:00
  • Thu 26 May 2022 15:30

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