S1, E4: The Literary Edit Podcast with Damian Barr

For the fourth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the divine Damian Barr. Author, broadcaster, and creator and host of the Literary Salon, which started at Shoreditch House in 2008, Damian hosts live literary events worldwide.   You can read about Damian Barr’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin The Colour Purple by Alice Walker The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway A Scots Dictionary of Nature by Amanda Thomson Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong   Other books we spoke about included The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker, Damian’s books, Maggie and Me and You Will be Safe Here and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.   If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice. To contact me, email [email protected]   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @mrdamianbarr @damianbarrliterarysalon   Twitter: @thelitedit @Damian_Barr