Catherine Nixey

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366 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Some of this criticizm is bunk.

Books do not demand a monkish devotion from those who work with them.

Elliott worked in a bank.

Anthony Trollope worked for the post office.

Some of it is good old fashioned intellectual snobbery.

As if celebrities are incapable of taxing intellectual endeavour.

In 1955, when Marilyn Monroe posed reading James Joyce's Ulysses, the image spawned astonishment, articles, and a decades-long debate.

As one article put it, was she actually reading it?

Having said that, some criticisms seem justified.

Some of the celebrities, like Lieber, seem to be promoting books that they genuinely read and love.

Even if they show that love a little oddly on Instagram.

Witherspoon similarly is witty and clever in her choices.

but others are effortfully worthy.

In her thankfully Erstwhile book club, Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame offered drivel about journeys and tips on empowering books about feminism.

But clubs, it's true, can be irritating.

They are also a little paradoxical.

Reading rates are declining rapidly everywhere.

Yet there are podcasts about reading, campaigns about reading, and hand-wringing books about reading.

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