The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis
Arts:Books
Today's episode was such a joy to record - Phoebe Luckhurst is an editor at the Evening Standard newspaper, and also the author of The Lock In, a totally fun indulgence of a book about what happens when three housemates (and a date) find themselves trapped in the attic of their house share. Phoebe is such a clever writer - she has managed to work in so many touchpoints of millennial culture and London life, from dating apps to public transport calculations to awful landlords and so much else. Fittingly, she wrote most of the book in lockdown - something I loved hearing about as I can remember having the opposite experience, and feeling totally uncreative and uninspired. I was also fascinated by her tales of student journalism (she was one of the founding staff members on the student tabloid The Tab). Anyway - I'll leave you to discover the rest. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Buy the book here:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lock-in/phoebe-luckhurst/9780241508756
Edited by Chelsey Moore
Jenny Kleeman on tech evangelism and making documentaries
Natalie Morris on identity, race and the mixed experience in modern Britain
Katherine Faulkner on undercover reporting and the rise of 'mum noir'
Kate Wills on solo travel and baring her soul in print
Gaby Hinsliff on getting a work life balance without losing ambition and why we need to talk about Betty Friedan
Catherine Cho on postpartum psychosis and why we need to talk about maternal mental health
Nell Frizzell on her 'panic years', writing as a trade not an art and opening up conversations about fertility
Rebecca Seal on WFH and how the pros do dinner parties
Sarah Sands on her incredible career - and asking monks how they stay so calm
Sarra Manning on J-17, the pomodoro method and her incredible career
Millie Gooch on quitting drinking and lockdown coping
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Megan Phelps-Roper on leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
Abigail Dean on quitting the day job, writer’s block and going from page to screen
Carys Bray on walking away from her Mormon faith and (sort of) predicting the pandemic
Jessica Fellowes on writing when deaf, Downton superfans and blending fact and fiction
Cecily von Ziegesar on Gossip Girl, New York social tribes and her new novel
Rosie Nixon on life as editor-in-chief of Hello!, attending Robbie Williams' wedding and her solo writing mini-breaks
Emma Rowley on life as a ghostwriter - and her move into fiction
Mia Levitin on sex in the time of Covid (and the problem with dating today)
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