Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Literary Loitering 29 - Let's Play House
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a rather odd world at times, and just when you think you’ve seen it all Microsoft announce a science fiction short story anthology, the skull...
Literary Loitering 28 - Space Wizards and Political Sculptures
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As far as weird news stories go, we think we’re on to a winner with Marcus Harvey’s sculpture of a naked Margaret Thatcher (with pigs). After that...
Literary Loitering 27 - Hagrid's Special Tequila Time
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We get arty this week with a new two-part Harry Potter play, Neil Gaiman’s “Likely Stories”, Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei’s Lego bricks and more....
Literary Loitering 26 - Consider It A Pyrrhic Victory
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss lots of new things including a new Asterix comic, new short stories by Aleister Crowley, the unbanning of New Zealand young-adult...
Literary Loitering 25 – Grr Martin's Fun House
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're back to talk about more bookish things including George R. R. Martin new short story anthology, the rise in physical books sales at Waterstones,...
Literary Loitering 24 – Moogies and Special Curry
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we kick things off with an Australian ghost writer beating Stephen King and J. K. Rowling to win the Golden Dagger Award, McDonalds teaming ...
Literary Loitering 23 – Half An Unnoticeable King
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The loiterers are back, and this week we discuss the oldest leather-bound manuscript in the world, a Tintin musical and more. We also have a quiz abou...
Literary Loitering 22 - My Luggage Has A Moustache
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join the loiterers as they scull aimlessly around the calm waters of books and the arts discussing PD James' millions, Stephen King winning the Nation...
Literary Loitering 21 - Killer Rabbits and Babylon 5 Wallabies
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week the tangents hit thick and fast as we try to discuss the nonsense language in "Gulliver's Travels", books that can purify water, the success...
Literary Loitering 20 - A Hive Of Bookish Constructs
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we dive straight into controversy with news about Kat Breslin's World War II romace novel "For Such A Time", the self-published memoirs of E...
Literary Loitering 19 - Miss Tiggy-Winkle Was A Supervillain
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We return once more to the land of books and such to discuss mystery-solving algorithms, controversial Chinese artists, old interviews with George R. ...
Literary Loitering 18 - Another Action Packed Adventure
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode we discuss a new Shakespeare biography by Boris Johnson, George R. R, Martin's disappointment with Marvel villains, Teesside's ...
Literary Loitering 17 - Dave Kills 99 per cent of Monsters
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We kick things off this week with the fallout from the release of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman", the auction of a one-page illustrated poem by A. A...
Literary Loitering 16 - Detectives, Dave and Deep-Down Demons
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss Harper Lee's letters failing to sell at auction. a new Beatles stage musical focusing on their time recording at Abbey Road...
Literary Loitering 15 - Just Add Stegosaurus
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss the theft of Grey, the first Latin-American Poet Laureate for the U.S.A., the new Children's Laureate and all sorts of othe...
Literary Loitering 14 - Gobblecock and Pussy Galore
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week things get weirder than normal with the announcement of a sequel/prequel to 50 Shades of Grey, the upcoming reissue of Jane Austen's nephew'...
Literary Loitering 13 - Basil Brush Soup
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss Margaret Atwood's "unseen" addition to The Future Library, the republication of the first book in The Flashman Papers series by G...
Literary Loitering 12 - Understated Mutants
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode Shakespeare's face apparently appears in a 400 year-old book on botany, Alexander Mccall Smith wins a pig and the Bollinger Eve...
Literary Loitering 11 - You've Never Seen Aliens
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode we discuss Bookseller magazine's Book of the Year, the auction of Picasso's "Women of Algiers", the possible end of the British...
Literary Loitering 10 - The Night Mayor's Codpiece
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode we discuss Stephen King's latest award victory, the Russian bookshop ban on Art Spiegelman's Maus, the discovery of a cache of ...
Literary Loitering 9 - The Awful Puns Are Here To Stay
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we kick off the show with the story of an 8 year-old girl who struck a blow for equaltiy when she demanded the right to read a book about pi...
Literary Loitering 8 - The Lost Baldwin
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the winner of the Pulitzer prize, the ongoing "Puppygate" scandal affecting the Hugo awards, Tennessee's plan to make The Bible i...
Literary Loitering 7 - Some Spiders got in the Machine
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode we say goodbye to the wonderful Gunter Grass before we discuss the apparent "rise" of female science fiction writers (which is ...
Literary Loitering 6 - Quiz Pro Quo
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the rise of colouring books for adults, a sculpture based upon The Wasp Factory, the controversy at the Hugo awards and more. We ...
Literary Loitering 5 - A Visit to Innsmouth
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the "Clean Reader" mobile application, the nominations for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and lots more...
Literary Loitering 4 - To Rhyme is Not a Crime
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we discuss the winner of the Folio Prize for Fiction, the reading of an real autopsy report as a piece of poetry, Alan Moore's second ...
Literary Loitering 3 - Goodbye Sir Terry Pratchett
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we were saddened by the tragic loss of Sir Terry Pratchett, but the show must go on. We discuss Umberto Eco's new book, the discovery of M...
Literary Loitering 2 - This Diagram Looks Wonky
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We return this week with all sorts of books and arts news before we take a look at this year's nominations for the Diagram prize for the oddest book t...
Literary Loitering 1 - We're Back
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After an extended winter slumber a strange creature emerges from its psychedelic cave of wonders to terrorise the worlds of books and the arts once mo...