Fitzcarraldo Editions

I've been reading a lot of books, academic books and journals, obviously, which has slightly reduced my, um, time available for other types of literary endeavor.

Really enjoyed a book by a guy called Gregor Hens, H-E-N-S, and it's called The City and the World, and it's by Fitzcarraldo Editions who are a fabulous imprint.

Everything that they, uh, commission, everything that they re-release is really interesting.

So it's called The City and the World by Gregor Hens.

My name's Holly Pester, and this is the Fitzcarraldo Editions podcast.

I'm Rebecca May Johnson, a writer and editor, also a friend of Holly Pester.

Holly Pester is a writer and senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre at the University of Essex.

Yes,

and this is a novel, and it's published by my favourite publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, impeccable publishers.

It's on the Booker Prize longlist, and the shortlist is announced later this week.

It's quite an interesting longlist as well, because there were quite a few authors that I hadn't heard of before this.

Holly has done a fair few events for us over the years, including for the publication of her novel The Lodgers, sung two years ago.

Tonight, however, we're here to celebrate Holly's secondary poetry collection, Cafes, published by Fitzcarraldo.

In conversation with Holly tonight is Luke Roberts, lecturer at King's College London, the co-director of the small press distance object and author of most recently, Bad Omens.

Luke and Holly, thank you so much for being here and thank you to everyone at Fitzcarraldo as ever.

Thank you.

It's cafe time.

And we'll talk more maybe in a little while about Holly's work as a whole.

But we're here tonight for this book.