Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Edmund Gosse's account of growing up the son of a widowed Victorian fundementalist preacher. The trio also talk about Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams, and Spanish Crossings, the second novel by John Simmons.

Books Mentioned:

Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Edmund Gosse - Father and Son
Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood, The Essex Serpent
Eley Williams - Attrib. and Other Stories
Padgett Powell - The Interrogative Mood
George Saunders - Tenth of December
John Simmons - Spanish Crossings
Claire Scobie - The Pagoda Tree
Miriam Toews - A Complicated Kindness
Ann Thwaite - Edmund Gosse

Other Links:

Cabin Pressure
Giant Rat Sumatra
Geoffrey Palmer reading
Potter's Where Adam Stood
Edmund Gosse lecture
Father and Son by Cat Stevens