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The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Alan Isler's debut novel The Prince of West End Avenue (1994) is the subject of this episode of Backlisted. Joining Andy and John to discuss it are novelist William Sutcliffe and playwright and bibliomemoirist Samantha Ellis. Other books talked about in this episode: Fireflies by Luis Sagasti and Love & Trouble: A Mid-Life Reckoning by Claire Dederer.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)5'37 - Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer13'44 - Fireflies by Luis Sagasti18'30 - The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler* 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, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I said, well, I won't tell Andy, but yeah, thank you for the, thank you for the

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feedback. Oh, that's nice though.

1:00.1

So I genuinely want to say thanks very much to everybody

1:02.3

for being so nice about the piece that I wrote for Boundless about why I read so much.

1:08.0

You can find it on the Boundless website, but also listeners to this podcast who read it and gave me such amazing

1:15.4

feedback. That piece was an absolute pig to write. It was so hard to get right and

1:21.8

just before it was published I nearly a

1:24.8

Genesis true I nearly contacted Katie at Boundless and said please don't put it out

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because I think it doesn't work I didn't I didn't get it right can you

1:36.4

delay it for a week and then I said oh no just they get it over with get it over with

1:39.6

so thank you everyone you it is writing, isn't it?

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So is that, don't you think?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

1:47.5

Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books. Today you find us in Manhattan on the upper

1:54.6

west side in Goldstein's Dairy restaurant,

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