The TLS Podcast

This week, Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past, whether they be joyous, heartbreaking or down-to-earth; John Talbot reads us his poem of a very specific corner of London.

A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year, edited by Liz Ison
The Writer’s Room: The hidden worlds that shape the books we love by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Diaries of Note: 366 lives, one day at a time, edited by Shaun Usher

St Petersburgh Mews, W2, a poem by John Talbot

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This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.

'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin
'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats'
'So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018'
'A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bouchard-Roberts
'Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes', by Eleanor Houghton

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Here is our exclusive conversation with Ed Vulliamy in full as he gives us a look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound.

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This week, Ed Vulliamy gives us an exclusive look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound; and David Horspool dips a toe into the luscious world of the lido.

'Lido Land: How Britain Learned to Make a Splash', by Tom Fort

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This week, Toby Lichtig on a constellation of new fiction; and Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather, Oscar Wilde.

'The Palm House', by Gwendoline Riley
'Devotions: Eight Stories', by Lucy Caldwell
'The Tribe', by Michael Arditti
'Lázár', by Nelio Biedermann, translated by Jamie Bulloch
'You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love', by Jean-Noël Orengo, translated by David Watson
'After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal', by Merlin Holland

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