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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

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Ted Hodgkinson

Sarah Dillon

John Mullan

Open Book: Being a Man: David Szalay and Ted Hodgkinson

Being a Man: David Szalay and Ted Hodgkinson

24/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Being a Man: David Szalay and Ted Hodgkinson

Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer David Szalay about All That Man Is.

Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer David Szalay about All That Man Is, his new collection which explores what it is to be a man in the 21st century.

On Open Book - men and fiction: award winning writer David Szalay's new book, All That Man Is, is a collection of stories about men, young to old, all living away from home and struggling to make sense of their lives. He, and Ted Hodgkinson literature programmer at London's Southbank, talk to Mariella Frostrup about what it is to be a man in the the 21st century, and how that's currently being explored in fiction.
Dr Sarah Dillon examines the prose of that most masculine of novelists - the hard boiled detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler and, in our Reading Clinic, John Mullan offers advice to a listener who wants to read novels about 'doing the right thing'.

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