Celeste Ng; Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen; Rediscovering 20th century classic Baron Bagge
Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng about her new book, Our Missing Hearts. She also discusses grief and modern masculinity with writers Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen.
Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng, the author behind Little Fires Everywhere. Discussing her latest novel Our Missing Hearts, set in an oppressive near future, she explains wanting to explore language, Asian American identity and prescient issues of book censorship.
Also Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen, the authors behind two very different books which explore grief and modern masculinity.
Plus Anne Meadows choses a haunting reissue of the dream-like classic novella for her Editors' Pick.
Book List 鈥� Sunday 9 October and Thursday 13 October
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
A Grief Observed by C S Lewis
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Translated by Richard and Clara Winston
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