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Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend

Chris Power talks to Katy Hays about her debut novel The Cloisters. RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg, authors of books that might also be termed "dark academia", discuss the new trend.

Chris Power talks to Katy Hays about her debut novel The Cloisters, a museum-set thriller about youthful infatuation, deadly rivalries and tarot.

RF Kuang is the author Babel, a recent BookTok sensation which reimagines Oxford's colonial history and offers a subversive take on "dark academia". Kate Weinberg, journalist and novelist behind campus murder mystery The Truants, joins her to discuss the trend driven in part by Donna Tarrt The Secret History 30 years after publication.

And with the 2023 prize now open for entries, last year's 大象传媒 National Short Story Award winner Saba Sams choses the book she would never part with.

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Feb 2023 15:30

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