Ben Lerner on 10:04
Presented by Mariella Frostrup. American novelist Ben Lerner discusses his playful second novel 10:04, which tackles questions of time, identity and story writing.
The American writer Ben Lerner won huge praise for his first novel Leaving The Atocha Station. He talks to Mariella about the follow up, 10:04 - a playful and complex book about time, story telling and friendship.
Thriller writer Charles Cumming has set his latest book in Istanbul where his disgraced agent Thomas Kell has to find a traitor in the ranks of the secret service. Charles Cumming, and critic Jake Kerridge talk to Mariella about writing contemporary thrillers in a time of fast-changing global politics.
Our Reading Clinic offers advice to a listener in search of well written memoirs and Boualem Sansal sends a literary postcard from Algeria.
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Ben Lerner
Duration: 07:28
Charles Cumming and Jake Kerridge
Duration: 07:34
Reading Clinic
Duration: 07:13
Boualem Sansal
Duration: 04:56
BOOKLIST
10:04 by Ben Lerner
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
Falling For Icarus by Rory MacLean
Harraga by Boualem Sansal
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Role Contributor Presenter Mariella Frostrup Interviewed Guest Ben Lerner Broadcasts
- Sun 11 Jan 201516:00BBC Radio 4
- Thu 15 Jan 201515:30BBC Radio 4
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