Episodes
![Ep 17: Night Boat to Tangier](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Ep 17: Night Boat to Tangier
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Join us in a Spanish ferry terminal as we wait for a Night Boat to Tangier. In our latest episode we discuss Kevin Barry's novel about two Irish gangsters coming to terms with the repercussions of a life of crime.
![Booksplain: Sedated](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/WhatsApp_Image_2020-09-25_at_1415446b437_300x300.jpeg)
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Booksplain: Sedated
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
We're BACK. We know you missed us. Join us for the launch of Booksplain - our new spin off, in which Jess Booksplains her latest non fiction read. Sedated by James Davies explores how neoliberalism has shaped our understanding and 'treatment' of mental distress. It's fascinating, shocking, thought-provoking...and yes, so bleak Em refused to read it.
![Ep. 16: Auden’s Poems](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 06, 2022
Ep. 16: Auden’s Poems
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
A new and slightly unusual episode of Find the Lit! Tune in as Em and Jess loose themselves (and almost their brains) in Auden's poetry, a profound and poignant world of time, death, love...and trains. We recommend pausing to read the poems - unless you enjoy being very confused!
![Ep. 15: Cold Comfort Farm](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Ep. 15: Cold Comfort Farm
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Join Em and Jess in rural Sussex with Flora Post and the strange Starkadder family. Do we think Cold Comfort Farm is the 'funniest book ever written'?
![Ep. 14: Lanny](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Ep. 14: Lanny
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Find the Lit is back! Join Em and Jess to discuss Booker longlisted Lanny by Max Porter. An unusual young boy, an ancient mystical being and plenty of village gossip awaits!
![Em Read: Lewis Percy](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/WhatsApp_Image_2020-09-25_at_1415446b437_300x300.jpeg)
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Em Read: Lewis Percy
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
In the first of our spin-off series, Em chats to Jess about a novel she has just finished reading; Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner. Does Em recommend this story of an acamedic torn between the dusty library and the alluring but confusing world of women?
![Ep. 13: The Group](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Ep. 13: The Group
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Em and Jess dive into the world of upper-middle class New York circa 1930s. Mary McCarthy's most infamous novel, The Group, features the lives of eight college graduates, whose experiences of relationships, sex, marriage, pregnancy and the workplace seem strikingly similar yet a world apart from the lives of women today.
![Ep. 12: Ethan Frome](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Ep. 12: Ethan Frome
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Once again, Em and Jess explore the pages of a tragic love story. Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton's best-known work and for such a short book it raises a lot of questions! How accurately does Wharton describe a poverty-stricken existence she never experienced herself? What are the pitfalls of marrying your cousin? and the most important question of all, is sledding ever a good idea!?
![Ep. 11: Giovanni's Room](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 04, 2020
Ep. 11: Giovanni's Room
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Love, sex, intimacy, shame and oysters are just some of the topics we encounter as we delve into James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. So pour yourself a large cognac (it's never too early in 1950s Paris) and prepare for one of the most heartbreaking love stories ever written.
![Ep. 10: Time's Arrow](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_1400_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Ep. 10: Time's Arrow
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Join Em & Jess for a discussion about Martin Amis' Time's Arrow. At once harrowing, thought-provoking and hilarious – it's one not to be missed!
![Ep. 9: The Mezzanine](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14009b4pw_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Ep. 9: The Mezzanine
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Our second long-distance episode has landed! This time we're riding the escalator in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, where we discuss the intricacies of the office lunch break. Essential listening – and reading – for finding wonder in the quotidian world of shoelaces, straws and staplers.
![Ep. 8: Housekeeping](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/timthumb_300x300.jpeg)
Saturday May 25, 2019
Ep. 8: Housekeeping
Saturday May 25, 2019
Saturday May 25, 2019
We discuss one of the Guardian's top 100 novels, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. This is our first episode recorded long distance – sorry if you can tell! You'll need to turn the volume up!
![Ep. 7: L.A. Confidential](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/L_A_Confidential_300x300.jpg)
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Ep. 7: L.A. Confidential
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
We're back with a new, sexier name and we’re celebrating in L.A.! Join us in the darkest of Disneylands for a chat about our latest read: L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy. There are spoilers galore so maybe save this one for later if you want to read the book yourself. Also, this episode comes with a million trigger warnings – it turns out Ellroy's City of Angels can be pretty hellish...
![Ep 6: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14007udsr_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Ep 6: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
There’s disharmony in Flat 26 again! This time we’re disagreeing about John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos. Listen on for scintillating chats about time, death and poetry, as well as an offensively sweeping characterisation of male writers. It might just be our breast episode yet…
![Ep 5 Pond](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14009b4pw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Ep 5 Pond
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Em and Jess discuss Pond by Claire Louise Bennett...and finally disagree with each other about something. Will their friendship survive?
![Ep 4 Nausea](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14009b4pw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday May 16, 2018
Ep 4 Nausea
Wednesday May 16, 2018
Wednesday May 16, 2018
Em and Jess try their very best to talk about Sartre (go easy on us!)
![Ep 3 The Book of Evidence](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14009b4pw_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Ep 3 The Book of Evidence
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Emily and Jess talk murder, freedom and existentialism in their discussions about their latest read - John Banville's The Book of Evidence.
![Ep 2 Men Explain Things to Me](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/menexplainthings.jpg)
Friday Jan 05, 2018
Ep 2 Men Explain Things to Me
Friday Jan 05, 2018
Friday Jan 05, 2018
Find the Lit is back! In the second episode Emily and Jess discuss Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me.
![Ep 1 Battleborn](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog2152324/Find_the_Lit_logo_14009b4pw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Ep 1 Battleborn
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Episode 1 of Find the Lit. In this episode Jess and Emily discuss Claire Vaye Watkins' short story collection, Battleborn.