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(This episode is marked as explicit because of strong language in French.)
Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, published in 2009 by Vintage.
Gloriously named actress, performance artist and poet warrior Isabelle Schoelcher joins Charles Adrian for the 51st Second Hand Book Factory. They talk about the yellow sun gang, about sex and about the sea. They get off topic for a while in order to talk about the kittens but, knowing Isabelle, this seems appropriate.
Here is a youtube clip of Jacques Brel performing Vesoul.
Another book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists, is discussed in Page One 125.
Another book by Dennis Cooper, The Dream Police, is discussed in Page One 111, Page One 185 and Page One 186.
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch is also discussed in Page One 174. Another book by Iris Murdoch, Something Special, is discussed in Page One 77.
This episode has been edited to remove music that is no longer covered by licence for this podcast.
This episode features a jingle written for the podcast by the band Friends Of Friends.
Episode released: 11th March, 2014.
Book listing:
Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Guide by Dennis Cooper (trans Christophe Claro)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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