Lauren Elkin
Lauren Elkin talks to Shahidha Bari about her new novel, Scaffolding. Lauren and author Michèle Roberts discuss French writer Colette.
Lauren Elkin talks to Shahidha Bari about her novel Scaffolding, set in an apartment in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. Anna is a psychoanalyst who has suffered a recent loss. When she meets her new neighbour, young radical feminist Clementine, she starts to question her ideas about desire, feminism and psychoanalysis.
Michèle Roberts' new book is a personal, reflective essay on the French writer Colette. Michèle and Lauren discuss the life and work of Colette, from her Claudine novels set in a girls' school to her controversial novel Gigi, made into a famous film starring Leslie Caron, and the heavily autobiographical works featuring her mother, Sido.
Director of Tate galleries and museums Maria Balshaw tells us about the book she'd never lend: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature.
Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Tim Bano
Book List – Sunday 11 August
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Art Monsters by Lauren Elkin
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
Colette: My Literary Mother by Michèle Roberts
Claudine by Colette
Break of Day by Colette
The Rainy Moon and Other Stories by Colette
Gigi by Colette
Gathering of Strangers: Why Museums Matter by Maria Balshaw
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
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