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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Get your tickets to The Battle of Ideas Festival now. This year, @jackaldane.bsky.social hosts a live episode of The Booking Club celebrating 75 years of The Catcher in the Rye with @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social, Tim Black and Georgina Mumford. Don’t be a phony! Join us!

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BattleFest 26 is on its way… Find us in the cafe of Church House on Sun 18 Oct for a celebration of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye at 75 ⭐ @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social editor @artreview.bsky.social ⭐Tim Black associate editor Spiked Online ⭐Georgina Mumford, writer 🔗🎟️👇

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why did Dickens say he "purposely dwelt on the romantic side of familiar things" in Bleak House? @philiphensher.bsky.social, author of new book📚 The History of the Novel of Britain📚 (out this week) speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on Ep# 3 🔗👇

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Wendell Berry in a throwback episode from 2020 in which @jackaldane.bsky.social reads from The Mad Farmer poems with guest Patrick Deneen #wendellberry

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Wendell Berry in a throwback episode from 2020 in which @jackaldane.bsky.social reads from The Mad Farmer poems with guest Patrick Deneen #wendellberry

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚨 OUT NOW! @philiphensher.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss how to (and how not to) recommend novels to men, why Dickens helps you see through the priggish and pretentious, and more! 🔗 👇

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🔈 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social with @jackaldane.bsky.social discussing the End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society. 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in a 🧊 cool 🧊 spot to talk about his forthcoming book 📚 The New Dark Ages 📚 Questions for discussion include: Are smart devices turning us into the Eloi from HG Wells’s The Time Machine? 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🗓️So much to look forward to on Tuesday 25th August. The launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, a keynote speech from Will Self, a live recording, and more! BOOK NOW! 🎟️🎟️TICKETS BELOW! 🎟️🎟️ 🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stopped reading again? Well, at least you’ve scrolled to the right place. New episode with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social at Larry’s in the National Gallery out soon!

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stopped reading again? Well, at least you’ve scrolled to the right place. New episode with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social at Larry’s in the National Gallery out soon!

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New episode with @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social out now. 🔗 t.co/y4wcWrZfCQ 🔗 t.co/XmDyzU70au

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Throwback to March this year when @jackaldane.bsky.social met Ross Barkan in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of New York City to discuss Ross’s new novel 📚 Colossus 📚 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Throwback to March this year when @jackaldane.bsky.social met Ross Barkan in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of New York City to discuss Ross’s new novel 📚 Colossus 📚 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨COMING SOON! @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at James's favourite lunch spot for a thorough discussion about his forthcoming book📚THE NEW DARK AGES📚 Discover what societies really lose when the written word cedes cultural power to image and histrionics. DO NOT MISS!

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🔊 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social introduces @jackaldane.bsky.social to the novel that allowed him to read for pure pleasure, what having a literary father did for his appreciation of reading, and more. YouTube 🔗 youtu.be/Y-ohdjjZors?... Substack: thelitpath.substack.com

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What I Wish I Knew Sooner about the Joys of Reading, with Ioan Marc Jones

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📢ANNOUNCEMENT Will Self will deliver the keynote speech for My Martin Amis LIVE on 🗓️Tues 25 Aug🗓️, where we launch The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, and bring you a live podcast with @jackaldane.bsky.social 🎟️EARLYBIRD tickets until 1 July 11:59PM🎟️ BOOK NOW🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Kathleen Stock has been discussing friction-maxxing on Times Radio this morning, and the subject finds its way into the next episode of The Booking Club, when she and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet for dinner to discuss 📚Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death📚 More soon!

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟️ Early bird tickets at £35, on sale until the end of June. Join us for the launch of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, with a panel discussion, intimate presentation on the arduous and electrifying task of Editing Amis, and more! BOOK NOW: trybooking.com/uk/GQIT

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎧 EPISODE 1 IS UP! @jackaldane.bsky.social first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer + author @johnyorkestory.bsky.social They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler. 📺 🔗 in replies.

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY! @jackaldane.bsky.social is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🔊 NEW EPISODE! Kathleen Stock and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Case Against Assisted Death: where the UK Bill stands, what assisted dying policy looks like in practice around the world, and whether pain and suffering are worth more than we realise. 🔗 youtu.be/lKGZVCGq-RQ?...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT! The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸) 🎉 AFTER AMIS 🎉 takes you from noon to midnight with one fabulous conversation after another, culminating in an afterparty for the ages. More detail to follow.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"British people wonder what's going on with the government. The answer is: you haven't got one." Will Self levels with the audience in this new episode taken from our LIVE event at Special Rider Books and Records. Expect more home truths from the author in the coming days, weeks.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🚨UP NOW! On 23rd April last month, Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records before a packed venue to discuss📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚 Nothing was held back, and now, it's all there to listen to, relive and download.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A mere morsel next to what was served up live in April when the author of 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records. Listen to the full version from tomorrow morning.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚨 LISTEN NOW to the novelist Megan Nolan discussing her work as a writer and reader in the age of splintered attention with @jackaldane.bsky.social at her favourite restaurant Le Paddock in Brooklyn, New York. 🔗 youtu.be/-GfHqkTWmS8?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔊 LISTEN FROM TOMORROW! @jackaldane.bsky.social's third interview in The Booking Club's trifecta from New York this season brings Irish novelist Megan Nolan to her favourite spot in Brooklyn Le Paddock to talk about the lost art of paying attention, her new collection of essays, + more.

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In a reversal of time's arrow, the next episode is available to listen to ahead of schedule! @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Irish novelist Kevin Power discuss Amis's 1991 Booker-shortlisted novel, and how meeting Amis made him take up smoking again. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFp...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

OUT ON FRIDAY 8 MAY! Irish novelist Kevin Power and @jackaldane.bsky.social sit down to talk about Amis's 1991 novel 📚Time's Arrow📚 NOT LONG NOW... 🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🎧 LISTEN NOW to a brand new episode with Ross Barkan speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at Edward’s in downtown Manhattan about his new novel, 📚 COLOSSUS 📚 Discover how the art of self-reinvention has made and unmade America over a century. 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

LISTEN SOON to a sparkling new episode lifted from our live podcast at Special Rider in Shepherd’s Bush, in which Will Self took the stage with @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚. We were packed to the rafters, thanks to our collaborator and attendees.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you didn’t make it to Special Rider last night to hear Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Quantity Theory of Morality, you’ll soon be able to listen to it, in full, in May! Thank you to all, including our delightful sell-out crowd, who showed up in spite of the Tube Strike!

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“When I showed my agent a first draft, she said: ‘Jay, you’re going to get a lot of shit for some of this stuff.” Jay McInerney talks about bringing The Calloway Chronicles to a close with @jackaldane.bsky.social at Parcelle in New York. 🔗 youtu.be/trfh-z7ge7A?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE ‼️ On the publication day of Jay McInerney’s 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚, the last of four novels that completes The Calloway Chronicles, we invite you to dinner at Parcelle in New York where @jackaldane.bsky.social and Jay discuss. 🔗 youtu.be/trfh-z7ge7A?...

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Dinner with The King of Literary New York, Jay McInerney

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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Dinner with The King of Literary New York, Jay McInerney

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

🎟️SOLD OUT!🎟️ Today, we and Special Rider officially sold the last seat for our upcoming live podcast in Shepherd’s Bush Market, where on 23rd April, novelist Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss: 📚The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚 From today’s BBC Radio London with Robert Elms

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🔊 OUT ON 14 APRIL! King of Literary NYC Jay McInerney meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in Manhattan to discuss the final instalment of his tetralogy of novels: 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚 Includes👇 📚 Nights out with Tom Cruise 📚 Choosing 🍷 over cocaine 📚 Knowing Norman Mailer

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