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Books Up Close: The Podcast

Hosted by Unknown Host · society · EN · 47 episodes

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Books Up Close is a show for writers, readers, and anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.

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Books Up Close: The Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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Books Up Close: The Podcast
Books Up Close: The Podcast (TRAILER)
Aug 19, 20261 min
This is Books Up Close: The Podcast. It's a show for readers, writers and anyone interested in how texts get made. Chris Lloyd - poet, scholar, critic - interviews authors about an excerpt of their work and they closely read it together. This is the kind of literary chat you won't hear elsewhere Guests include: Torrey Peters, Garth Greenwell, Lola Olufemi, Abigail Bergstrom, Kieran Yates, Carys Davies, Fatima Bhutto, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Sara Ahmed, Saleem Haddad, Elaine Castillo, Richard Scott, and many more.
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Ep. 41. Wayne Holloway-Smith, RABBITBOX
Aug 19, 20261 hour
In today's episode I talk to Wayne Holloway-Smith's new book RABBITBOX.  Wayne Holloway-Smith is the author of three books, Alarum and Love Minus Love , both published by Bloodaxe Books, and RABBITBOX , recently published by Scribner UK. He’s been shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, won the National Poetry Competition and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. He teaches and lives in Londo n. Book recs: Denise Riley, A Chorus of Ears: On 'The Voice of the Poem' Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack and Honey Nuar Alsadir, Animal Joy Follow the show on Instagram and subscribe to the Substack for transcripts and more links. Please leave feedback here . Find Wayne at  Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd .
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Ep. 40. Remi Kalir, Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice
Aug 11, 202654 min
In today's episode I talk to Remi Kalir about his book Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice Remi Kalir is a scholar and practitioner of annotation. He studies how annotation facilitates social, collaborative, and justice-directed learning. Remi is the author of two books published by MIT Press– Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice (2025) and Annotation (2021). He has also authored and contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed publications about literacy, learning, and technology. Remi currently serves as Associate Director of Faculty Development and Applied Research at Duke University. He began his career teaching literacy at Middle School 22 in the South Bronx and earned his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Notes: James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room ; bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress Book recs: Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground Follow the show on Instagram and subscribe to the Substack for transcripts and more links. Please leave feedback here . Follow Remi on Bluesky at remikalir.bsky.social or find him at https://remikalir.com Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd .
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Ep. 39. Kieran Yates, All the Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
Aug 3, 202651 min
In today's episode I talk to Kieran Yates about her nonfiction book All the Houses I've Ever Lived In (2023).  Kieran Yates is a London based journalist and author who has written everywhere from The Guardian and The Independent to Dazed and Vice. Her debut book, all the houses ive ever lived in is a meditation on home and the politics of the housing crisis. Book recs: Eula Biss, Having and Being Had Sam Johnson-Schlee, Living Rooms   Kyle Chayka, The Longing for Less: What's Missing from Minimalism  Toni Morrison, 'The Site of Memory' Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance  Follow the show on Instagram and subscribe to the Substack for transcripts and more links. Please leave feedback here . Follow Kieran on Instagram @Kierany8s or find her at kieranyates.co.uk Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd .
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Ep. 38. Ashley Clark, The World of Black Film / Daughters of the Dust
Jul 22, 20261h 13m
In today's episode I talk to Ashley Clark about his new book The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films (2026) as well as Julie Dash's canonical film Daughters of the Dust .  Ashley Clark is a writer, broadcaster, and film programmer. He has organized numerous film seasons at international venues including London's BFI Southbank, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Toronto's TIFF Lightbox. His writing has appeared in The Guardian , Reverse Shot , Sight & Sound , and Film Comment , and he is the author of two books: Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2015); and The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films (2026). Ashley was born in London, lives in Jersey City, and works in New York City, where he has been the curatorial director of the Criterion Collection since 2020.Episode notes: Julie Dash, Illusions (1982) Book recs: Keith Ridgway, A Shock Amy Sall, The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema, and Power Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth Follow the show on Instagram and subscribe to the Substack for transcripts and more links. Please leave feedback here . Follow Ashley on Instagram @_Ash_Clark Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd .
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