Sherds Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#33 The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The House of Hunger was originally published in by Heinemann in 1978. The book is a collection of harrowing, autobiographical short stories in which...
#32 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo was originally published in Spanish in 1955. The book is published by Serpent’s Tail, the translation is by Margaret S...
#31 The Child Cephalina: An Interview with Rebecca Lloyd
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I spoke to the writer, Rebecca Lloyd, about her novel, The Child Cephalina (2019), which is published by Tartarus Press: Rebecca Llo...
#30 Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy was originally published in Italian in 1989. The translation is by Tim Parks, and the book is published by ...
#29 Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I’m joined by Stefan Głowacki to discuss Cinnamon Shops, a collection of short stories by Bruno Schulz, which was originally published in Polish in...
#28 Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren was originally published in 1975. Since its publication, Dhalgren has had its fair share of proponents and enemies - it ...
#27 The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers
08 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers was originally published in Spanish in 1950. The translation was made by Kit Maude and the book is published by Th...
#26 Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Octavia Butler’s Bloochild and Other Stories was originally published in 1995. The book collects seven stories from throughout Butler’s career, ...
#25 The Mainz Psalter by Jean Ray
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jean Ray’s The Mainz Psalter was originally published in 1930. We read the story in Jeff and Ann Vandermeer’s anothology, The Weird, and the tr...
#24 One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Caradoc Prichard’s One Moonlit Night was originally published in Welsh in 1961. The book is a classic of Welsh literature, which though greatly a...
#23 Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope MIrrlees was originally published in 1926. Lud-in-the-Mist is the capital of the fictional free state of Dorimare, a country...
#22 The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas was originally published in Nynorsk in 1957, and is available from Peter Owen books and now as a Penguin Modern Classics ...
#21 Graves: An Interview with Quentin S. Crisp
26 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Sherds Podcast, I’m joined by writer, Quentin S. Crisp, to discuss his new novel, Graves (2019), published by Snuggly Books, who ...
#20 Hauntings by Vernon Lee
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Patricia Pulham, Professor of Victorian Literature at The University of Surrey, to discuss Vernon Lee’s collection ...
#19 Forest of a Thousand Daemons by D. O. Fagunwa
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
D. O. Fagunwa’s Forest of a Thousand Daemons was first published in 1938; it marks the first full-length novel published in Yoruba and has become a ...
#18 The Witches of Kyiv by Orest Somov
31 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Witches of Kyiv and Other Gothic Tales collects a range of stories by Ukrainian Romantic author, Orest Somov which were originally published betwe...
#17 The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall was originally published in German in 1963. Our protagonist and narrator is a woman in her 40s. While visiting frien...
#16 The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One contemporary reviewer referred to The Hill of Dreams as the “study, rather than the story, of a morbid temperament.” Often regarded as Machen...
#15 Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ghada Samman’s ‘Beirut Nightmares’ was originally published in Arabic in 1976. Set at the height of the Lebanese Civil War, this autobiographic...
#14 The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Edogawa Rampo’s short story, ‘The Human Chair’,was originally published in Japanese in 1925. The story is taken from the collection, Japanese T...
#13 The Dying Peasant by Karel van de Woestijne
28 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Karel van de Woestijne’s novella, ‘The Dying Peasant’, was originally published in Dutch in 1918. It is now available for the first time in an ...
#12 Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker was originally published in 1980. The novel is set in Kent some two or three thousand years after a nuclear holocau...
#11 Ice by Anna Kavan
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Kavan’s Ice was originally published in 1967 by Peter Owen books. The book is Kavan’s final and best known work, and appeared just one year ...
#10 The Ship by Hans Henny Jahnn
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Henny Jahnn was a German organ-builder, playwright and novelist. In this episode, we look at the only novel of his available in English, The Sh...
#9 The Wind by Dorothy Scarborough
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
‘The Wind’ concerns the fate of Letty, a young girl plucked out of a life of ease in Virginia and forced to move to the plains of Sweetwater, Texa...
#8 Armed With Madness by Mary Butts
26 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Mary Butts's novel of 1928, 'Armed with Madness'. Over the course of the programme, we consider the possible reasons for ...
#7 I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński
31 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jasieński's 'I Burn Paris' upset the French authorities enough to have him expelled from the country on the novel's publication. The story concerns ...
#6 Et in Arcadia Ego by Tadeusz Różewicz
04 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm joined by Stefan Glowacki to discuss Tadeusz Rózewicz's long poem, 'Et in Arcadia Ego' (1961). Over the course of the epis...
#5 The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood
14 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at Algernon Blackwood's story, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved', which was published in his collection 'Pan's Garden' (1912). ...
#4 At Twilight They Return by Zyranna Zateli
03 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at Zyranna Zateli's 'At Twilight They Return' (1993), translated by David Connolly. Set during the final decades of the 19th...
#3 Red Grass by Boris Vian
12 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at Boris Vian's 'Red Grass' (1950), a surrealist science fiction novel in which the main character, Wolf, creates a machine t...
#2 The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain (1977), a work of topographical and philosophical speculation centred on the Cairngorms...
#1 Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Ronald Fraser's 'Flower Phantoms' (1926), an obscure fantasy in which Judy, a student of botanical sciences, engages in a ...