Readers Digress: 21/01/10

A round-up of just some of the recent coverage online for Faber books and authors, and anything else that catches the Thought Fox’s eye …

• Garrison Keillor (whose latest book, Pilgrims, has just been published) interviewed on the BBC World Service’s The Strand and Radio 4’s Excess Baggage.

• Marcus Chown is everywhere – on Twitter, at a Book Swap, on an international blog tour, speculating in the New Scientist, and explaining the pull of popular science writing in the Independent on Sunday.

• Great first review by Lionel Shriver in the Financial Times for Maria McCann’s long-awaited second novel The Wilding, which we publish next month. More on that soon.

• ‘The funny and peculiar world of the cleaner turned comic sensation’ – Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize-winner Philip Ardagh interviewed in the TES.

• The Philip Larkin trail in Hull – the BBC’s short film clip on the forthcoming six months of Philip Larkin events in Hull, complete with archive footage of him – and also his bicycle – and a brief reading by Jean Hartley, his first publisher.

• Tom Stoppard talks politics, famous muses and the true meaning of “Stoppardian” in this Telegraph interview.

• Peter Carey to appear on a stamp.

• Danny Boyle to make National Theatre debut – around the time we’ll be publishing Amy Raphael’s biography of the Oscar-winner.

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