Ep. 13: The Group

Light a cigarette, pack your mohair throw and take a turn around the shopping mall with us as we discuss The White Album by Joan Didion. 

Have you ever been confused for someone else? Do you have an evil twin? In this episode we discuss the bestselling new book Doppelganger by Naomi Wolf...sorry Klein! You'll never smell sandalwood incense the same way again...

Join us in a Spanish ferry terminal as we wait for a Night Boat to Tangier. In our latest episode we discuss Kevin Barry's novel about two Irish gangsters coming to terms with the repercussions of a life of crime. 

We're BACK. We know you missed us. Join us for the launch of Booksplain - our new spin off, in which Jess Booksplains her latest non fiction read. Sedated by James Davies explores how neoliberalism has shaped our understanding and 'treatment' of mental distress. It's fascinating, shocking, thought-provoking...and yes, so bleak Em refused to read it.

A new and slightly unusual episode of Find the Lit! Tune in as Em and Jess loose themselves (and almost their brains) in Auden's poetry, a profound and poignant world of time, death, love...and trains. We recommend pausing to read the poems - unless you enjoy being very confused! 

Join Em and Jess in rural Sussex with Flora Post and the strange Starkadder family. Do we think Cold Comfort Farm is the 'funniest book ever written'? 

Find the Lit is back! Join Em and Jess to discuss Booker longlisted Lanny by Max Porter. An unusual young boy, an ancient mystical being and plenty of village gossip awaits! 

In the first of our spin-off series, Em chats to Jess about a novel she has just finished reading; Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner. Does Em recommend this story of an acamedic torn between the dusty library and the alluring but confusing world of women?  

Em and Jess dive into the world of upper-middle class New York circa 1930s. Mary McCarthy's most infamous novel, The Group, features the lives of eight college graduates, whose experiences of relationships, sex, marriage, pregnancy and the workplace seem strikingly similar yet a world apart from the lives of women today.

Once again, Em and Jess explore the pages of a tragic love story. Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton's best-known work and for such a short book it raises a lot of questions! How accurately does Wharton describe a poverty-stricken existence she never experienced herself? What are the pitfalls of marrying your cousin? and the most important question of all, is sledding ever a good idea!?