The Booking Club podcast

Novelist Jay McInerney here with a message about his brand new novel 📚See You on the Other Side 📚, and where
@jackaldane.bsky.social and he will be meeting this spring 🌸🗽

Novelist Jay McInerney here with a message about his brand new novel 📚See You on the Other Side 📚, and where
@jackaldane.bsky.social and he will be meeting this spring 🌸🗽

🎧 NEXT MONTH... @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 for an evening with The Battle Book Club.

15TH APRIL, 7PM UK TIME

Book Yourself A Place in the Conversation📝 🔗 t.co/Tzvz3Q0cMe

🎧 NEXT MONTH... @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 for an evening with The Battle Book Club.

15TH APRIL, 7PM UK TIME

Book Yourself A Place in the Conversation📝 🔗 t.co/Tzvz3Q0cMe

🎧 LISTEN UP!

@jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 in a co-hosted Battle Book Club livestream on 15th April, 7pm UK Time

Come take part! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-boo...

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social has a top-notch book rec, and literary dream date to share with you all...

With statesmanlike calm, @georgemonaghan.bsky.social delivers a message of reassurance to listeners, alongside his colleague @nickpaulharris.bsky.social, about an ep that will see @jackaldane.bsky.social and the duo discuss 📚Experience📚, The Amis Papers at the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, & more.

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the drift away from weighty political speech in favour of short-form soundbites within the UK House of Commons, and why we desperately need a reversal of the trend.

FULL EPISODE: t.co/turNhhiV83

This is Fig & Walnut in Bloomsbury, where @jackaldane.bsky.social met @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss Trip to the Moon 🌑

The Pharmakon | Sam Leith | Substack Sam Leith on Reading, Writing, Re-Reading, Rhetoric and Recovery. Click to read The Pharmakon, by Sam Leith, a Substack publication. Launched a few seconds ago.

I've started a Substack for bits and pieces. First post asks the pressing question of our times: What Would You Do Alone In A Cage With Nothing But Cocaine?

A perfect match of guest and subject... Every time this podcast returns to a novel it has already covered, it makes me want to re-read it yet again! (The scene with Richard and his son is one of the many Amis that sentences/phrases that has stayed with me.)

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social & @jackaldane.bsky.social sit down over dinner to discuss TRIP TO THE MOON.

📚 How writers succeed and fail to captivate us
📚 Why we keep believing in superheroes
📚 Why storytellers are our favourite drug dealers, & more!

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Xx...

Now this, *this* is a declaration of bloody war. With the Spectator’s humble Book Club podcast as Greenland. I should never have encouraged that Sandbrook bloke.

@lucasoakeley.bsky.social's current top book rec and perfect literary dinner date.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

Thank you to @johnyorkestory.bsky.social for a great recording this week at The Fig and Walnut in Bloomsbury.

📚Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Storytelling📚 is OUT NOW.

Thank you to @johnyorkestory.bsky.social for a great recording this week at The Fig and Walnut in Bloomsbury.

📚Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Storytelling📚 is OUT NOW.

Next up, @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the script wizard @johnyorkestory.bsky.social

Next up, @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the script wizard @johnyorkestory.bsky.social

@lucasoakeley.bsky.social's current top book rec and perfect literary dinner date.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

This is Zeret Kitchen, the Ethiopian based in Camberwell where @lucasoakeley.bsky.social met @jackaldane.bsky.social to kick the year off. Don't sleep on it.

FULL EPISODE🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

🚨COMING SOON in FEB...

@jackaldane.bsky.social speaks to the 2025 Booker Prize winner David Szalay, about Amis's 1995 novel 📚The Information📚, how it helped sober him after the heady triumph of Flesh, why men treat tennis as a modern duel of honour 🎾, + more!

🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

The statement "only a liar or a fool would contest the quality" of his writing, is one I can co-sign 100%!

🎯 Listen to the Darts! Darts! Darts! with Rob Doyle this Sunday.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdU...

@lucasoakeley.bsky.social describes the reactions he received from male readers of his debut novel, Nearly Departed, who saw themselves reflected in its protagonist Joel, a young man struggling to come to terms with the death of his girlfriend.

Listen in full: youtu.be/WhxSPkdtEpg?...

A breed of writer you don’t see many of these days came to London from New York this week: journalist, essayist AND novelist, Ross Barkan.

Ross and @jackaldane.bsky.social will meet again in New York this around the publication of his upcoming new work of fiction ‘Colossus’.

Stay tuned.

A breed of writer you don’t see many of these days came to London from New York this week: journalist, essayist AND novelist, Ross Barkan.

Ross and @jackaldane.bsky.social will meet again in New York this around the publication of his upcoming new work of fiction ‘Colossus’.

Stay tuned.

IN FEBRUARY...

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new book📚Trip to the Moon📚: Understanding the True Power Of Story.

"A masterpiece . . . genius - funny and wise and occasionally profound - Billy Ivory

"You'll learn something new on every page." - Helen Lewis

@lucasoakeley.bsky.social describes the reactions he received from male readers of his debut novel, Nearly Departed, who saw themselves reflected in its protagonist Joel, a young man struggling to come to terms with the death of his girlfriend.

Listen in full: youtu.be/WhxSPkdtEpg?...

IN FEBRUARY...

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new book📚Trip to the Moon📚: Understanding the True Power Of Story.

"A masterpiece . . . genius - funny and wise and occasionally profound - Billy Ivory

"You'll learn something new on every page." - Helen Lewis

🔊 OUT THIS FRIDAY...

Irish novelist Rob Doyle describes how reading London Fields began an "electrical storm" in his brain while on a long bus journey in South East Asia aged 23.

From that point on, #martinamis would be a major influence on his work. @jackaldane.bsky.social