41. James Baldwin - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Novelist Niven Govinden joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss James Baldwin's 1968 novel Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone. Also discussed: The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay, and The Gallows Pole by Ben Myers. Oh, and Lissa Evans' scene stealing turn in Their Finest, the film adaptation of her WWII novel, Their Finest Hour & A Half.
Books Mentioned:
Lisa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
John Grindrod - Outskirts
James Baldwin - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, Another Country, Giovanni's Room, Go Tell it on the Mountain, I Am Not Your Negro
Niven Govinden - We Are the Next Romantics, Graffiti My Soul, Black Bread White Beer, All the Days and Nights
Shena Mackay - Redhill Rococo
Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black
Michael Nesmith - Infinite Tuesday
Rose Macauly - The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond
Benjamin Myers - The Gallows Pole
Kerensa Jennings - Seas of Snow
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