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Episode image is a detail from the cover of Journals 1889-1949 by André Gide, published in 1967 by Penguin Books; cover shows a detail of ‘Pont de l’Europe’ by Gustave Caillebotte; photo: Oscar Ghez, Geneva (Shark International).
For the 63rd Second Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by writer and sometime academic Alan Cunningham. They talk about precision in the face of horror, the creation of fear and just plain good storytelling. Oh, and get ready to sit back and chill out at the end of the episode for nearly ten minutes of gentle bliss.
Alan Cunningham also appears in Page One 39, in which he talks about his book Count From Zero To One Hundred.
Journals 1889-1949 by André Gide is also discussed in Page One 178.
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: 8th July, 2014.
Book listing:
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi (trans. Stuart Woolf)
The Shining by Stephen King
Journals 1889-1949 by André Gide (trans. Justin O’Brien)
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