Are Your Book Shelves A Reflection of Your Character - Or Your Curiosity?

This week we discuss what your books on your bookshelf say about you, the new lockdown lingo (are you drinking furlough merlot?), whether lockdown telly might have reached its apex, and the concept of heteropessimism.


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Links

Apply here for Penguin's WriteNow scheme: https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/creative-responsibility/writenow.html

If I Had Your Face, by Frances Cha

Culture Call, a podcast by The Financial Times

Louis Theroux on Adam Buxton podcast

A Manual For Heartache: How To Feel Better, by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Exploding the myths behind K-Pop, by Crystal Tai for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/mar/29/behind-k-pops-perfect-smiles-and-dance-routines-are-tales-of-sexism-and-abuse

Marian Keyes interview with The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/28/marian-keyes-books-that-made-me

Indiana Seresin on heteropessimism for The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/


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