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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great

reading suggestions here. Hello, from Long Island, I'm joined today by Laurie Anderson,

musician, poet, painter, filmmaker, multimedia artist. In 1981, Laurie's very first single,

Oh Superman, hit number two in the UK charts. And since then, she's recorded

12 albums, most recently songs from the Bardo, and collaborated on a wide variety of projects

with artists ranging from Jonathan Demi to Peter Gabriel. Her most recent book is called All the

Things I Lost in the Flood. With Laurie in Manchester is radio and TV presenter and author Stuart McConey.

Among other broadcasting work, Stuart's on Radio 6 music at weekends with Mark Radcliffe

and his publications include Pies and Prejudice about the modern north of England

and most recently The N nanny state made me.

Laurie Anderson, would you start by telling us what your choice of a good read is?

I chose Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson, because I'm sitting here in my place and not having a whole lot of contact with

anyone else. And I need to laugh. I need to laugh so badly. So I thought, who's going to really

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