Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and JP Rindfleisch as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about bookfluencers, Audible, and DNF shelves. Then, stick around for a chat with Ian McGuire! Ian McGuire co-founded the Centre for New Writing with John McAuliffe in 2007 and co-directed the Centre with John until 2017. He is the author of Incredible Bodies (2006), The North Water (2016) The Abstainer (2020) and White River Crossing (2026) and one critical monograph, Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (2015). The North Water won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker prize and has been made into a BBC television mini-series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell.
Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and JP Rindfleisch as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about bookfluencers, Audible, and DNF shelves. Then, stick around for a chat with Ian McGuire!
Ian McGuire co-founded the Centre for New Writing with John McAuliffe in 2007 and co-directed the Centre with John until 2017. He is the author of Incredible Bodies (2006), The North Water (2016) The Abstainer (2020) and White River Crossing (2026) and one critical monograph, Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (2015). The North Water won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker prize and has been made into a BBC television mini-series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell.