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Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers
Sunday 15 November 2009
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Mother Country
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Family Romance
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The Eitingons
How do writers investigate their own pasts and shape them into a narrative, one which other people will find interesting? What are the particular pleasures, and pitfalls, of this kind of writing? Nicholas Spice, the publisher of the LRB, chaired a discussion with Jeremy Harding, the author of the memoir Mother Country; John Lanchester, the author of Family Romance; and Mary-Kay Wilmers, the paper’s editor, whose book The Eitingons was published in 2009.
Private History, Hidden History
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“A Question of Perspective”
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Audience Questions
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Recorded and edited by Adrian Leibowitz and Brett Wilson
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Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. He is the author of Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations and The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man’s Gate, a report on clandestine migrants and asylum seekers, originally published in the LRB. The Uninvited won the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism in 2001. His translations of Rimbaud’s poetry were published by Penguin in 2004. His most recent book, Mother Country, was published in 2006.
John Lanchester has led a varied career as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where his pieces still occasionally appear. He has also contributed to Granta, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. His first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, won four literary awards (including the coveted Whitbread First Novel Award and Hawthornden) and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Nicholas Spice is the publisher of the London Review of Books.
Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books.
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