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Open Book: Tech startups in fiction; Editor's Tip; sensitivity reading.

Tech startups in fiction; Editor's tip; Sensitivity reading

Tech startups in fiction; Editor's Tip; sensitivity reading.

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Tech startups in fiction; Editor's Tip; sensitivity reading.

Tech startups, and representing deafness in fiction.

Tahmima Anam and Mateo Askaripour discuss their novels, both set in the fast frenzied world tech startups.

Two new novels  - The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam and Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour - are  set in the fast, frenzied, heady world of new tech companies.  Tahmima and Mateo join Johny Pitts to talk about bringing this world to life and why both of their fictional apps appeal to the spiritual side of human nature. 
Also on the programme,  our monthly editor's pick:  this month the recommendation is a book about sibling relationships and turning 40 as  your Mum is turning 65;  and crime writer  Will Dean and deaf blogger Deafinitely Girly discuss their working relationship - she is one of Will's first readers, as his central character, Tuva Moodyson, is deaf.

Book List – Sunday 30 May and Thursday 3 June

The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
The Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Grown Ups by Marie Aubert, translated by Rosie Hedger
Bad Apples by Will Dean 
Dark Pines by Will Dean 
Black River by Will Dean 
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

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