It's so bizarre for this book. It's brilliant. It's just brilliant. I haven't had as much fun

than this as year. I mean, you know, reading these strange exotic kind of hot-housed madness and anyway we know let's not go too

soon should we start yeah have you got some chat You can have a bit of chat.

A little bit of chat.

Right. Welcome to another edition of Backlisted.

Sponsored by Unbound and coming from the kitchen table in Unbound. I am John

Mitchinson, publisher of Unbound. And I'm Andy Miller. I'm the author of the

year of reading dangerously and as usual we're joined by the writer and Bonne River Matthew

Hello Matthew.

Hello everyone.

And our special guest this week to discuss Nella Larson's passing is Sarah

Churchwell.

Professor Sarah Churchwell. Professor Sarah Churchwell.

Well, thank heavens you said that.

Professor, I was going to storm out of here.

Professor of the Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London.

Of London.

Also an author, one of my favourite books of recent years, Careless People, which is a brilliant reconstruction of what was happening at the time

Scott Fitzgerald was writing Gatsby.

So a literary detective work, but also brilliant reading

and brilliant contextualizing of that novel.

And I guess that only leaves me to say

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