Celeste Ng; Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen; Rediscovering 20th century classic Baron Bagge

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Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng, the author behind Little Fires Everywhere. Discussing her latest novel Our Missing Hearts, set in an oppressive near future, she explains wanting to explore language, Asian American identity and prescient issues of book censorship. Also Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen, the authors behind two very different books which explore grief and modern masculinity. Plus Anne Meadows choses a haunting reissue of the dream-like classic novella for her Editors' Pick. Book List – Sunday 9 October and Thursday 13 October Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Grief Observed by C S Lewis Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Translated by Richard and Clara Winston