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

Other Links:

• QI manifesto

• Jean Rhys

• Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Monty Python and The Holy Grail

• BBC The Living and the Dead

• Lou Reed - Street Hassle

• Gene Pitney