18. Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Author and poet Saleena Godden joins John Mitchinson, Andy Miller and Mathew Clayton to discuss Hubert Selby Jr's legendary transgressive novel of dead end life in working class 50's Brooklyn. WARNING: contains obligatory reference the The Fall.
Books Mentioned:
Salena Godden - Springfield Road
Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit To Brooklyn, The Queen Is Dead, Requiem for a Dream, The Demon
William Golding - The Spire, Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors
Sylvia Townsend Warner - The Corner That Held Them
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built, Golden Hill, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
George Eliot - Middlemarch
D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
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