In a special edition of the Backlisted podcast recorded at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, John and Andy are joined by the bookstore's owner Sylvia Whitman and author Adam Biles to discuss Huysmans' novel of aesthetic isolation A Rebours.

Books mentioned:

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it : A John Murray Original - Jessie Greengrass

• Sight - Jessie Greengrass

• Attrib. and other stories - Eley Williams

• Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett

• Eve's Hollywood - Eve Babitz

• Louis-Ferdinand Céline

• Blaise Cendrars

• The Life of J.-K. Huysmans - Robert Baldick

• La-Bas : (Down There);  En Route - Joris Karl Huysmans

• Submission - Michel Houellebecq

• The Genius of the Future: Essays in French Art Criticism - Anita Brookner (also published as Romanticism And Its Discontents)