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The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Max Porter, author of 'Grief Is The Thing With Feathers', joins John and Andy to talk about The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary's story of the life of the itinerant artist. Also discussed are Dark Money, Jane Mayer's account of the nexus of politics & wealth in the US, and Doreen by Barbara Noble, reissued by Persephone. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 5'47 - Doreen by Barabar Noble 13'07 - Dark Money by Jane Mayer 22'51 - The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:43.0

I mean, at the night before last I was at the very excellent independent publishers guild conference,

0:50.0

which is 10 minutes down the road from where I live. Which publishers was members of the public, were they permitted to attend such an event?

0:58.0

Which publishers would they expect to find there?

1:00.0

Oddly enough, we're unbound to remember but so like serpents tail

1:05.8

Grand so but no Grand's tail but I don't know

1:08.3

Faber are I think you probably have that they're nice good you know lots of very small

1:17.2

Search press and that kind of thing. I mean lots of it's a very very jolly room. Yeah

1:22.4

people who've been going forever and I just had to do it I just tell a few stories handy

1:27.4

you know but I told the great Waterstone's Guide to Books story produced a

1:35.6

produced a mail order catalog that was an inch and a half too big for the average British mailbox.

1:38.0

I still, we, we, we met, many of us still have our copies.

1:41.8

The gray order forms, do you remember, that were

1:44.5

nobody great, but when they were faxed to the mail order department, nobody could

1:47.8

read thousands of orders coming in, nobody had any idea what they were. I told a few of my, as you know, I'd like to tell the stories that that listed, listeners may hear in a forthcoming podcast of it all comes off.

2:04.0

Stories of Neil Aspernel in the Beatles.

2:06.8

Should we start?

2:08.0

Please, please get on with it.

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