Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to talk about The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary's story of the life of an 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.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Max Porter - Grief is the Thing with Feathers

• Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth, Mister Johnson, Herself Surprised, To be a Pilgrim, A House of Childhood, Selected Essays

• Barbara Noble - Doreen

• Jane Gardam - Long Way from Verona

• Jane Mayer - Dark Money

• David Seabrook - All the Devils Are Here, Jack of Jumps

• Chinua Achebe -Things Fall Apart

Other Links:

• Long Way from Verona podcast

• Boyle on Trump

• All the Devils Are Here podcast

• Paris Review

• Horse's Mouth film

• John Bratby