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Open Book: Kamila Shamsie; young feminist writing

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kamila Shamsie discusses her latest novel A God in Every Stone; Laura Bates and Emer O'Toole discuss books aimed at young feminists; and John Crace on the art of the Digested Read.

Transcript

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0:44.6

Hello on today's program, not yet up to speed with the must-read memoirs of Karl Over Knazgard.

0:50.6

Perhaps we can help.

0:52.4

I arrived in Stockholm and called my old friend Gia.

0:56.2

"'Can I stay with you?' I asked.

0:58.3

"'He laughed.

0:59.6

"'Okay,' he replied eventually,

1:01.4

"'as long as I don't have to listen to you talking about the book you aren't writing.

1:05.3

"'We talked about Nietzsche and his book about boxing

1:08.4

"'before I went to the lavatory to write a paragraph about

1:11.3

toilet paper. We then tried to see Tarkovsky's The Mirror, but were too late. It had been

1:17.7

an agreeably pointless day. Not actually Knazgaard, the Norwegian memoirist, but John Crace's

1:24.3

digested version. He'll be joining me later to tell me how he extracts the wheat from the chaff in a novel diet.

1:31.1

And we'll look at the burgeoning interest in books for young feminists,

1:34.7

with Laura Bates, creator of the Everyday Sexism Project, and the writer Emma O'Toole.

1:40.6

But first, the Orange Prize nominated Comey Le Chamzi, born in Karachi, but now resident in London.

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