Literary Loitering 79 – Selfies With Malice and Forethought

Archaeon 17/12/2017

It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick.

In other news, the winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, a 12 year-old photographer causes giraffe-based flashbacks for Andrew, selfies get their own museum and Texas prisons have some rather strange policies on books …

Speaking of which, our featured books are The Dark North by Martin Dunellind (with artwork by Peter Bergting, Henrik Petterson, Jaokim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson and Lukas Thelin), and The Legion Prophecy (Book 3 of The Apollonian Case Files), by Mark A. Latham.

Oh, and we’re ending the year with a quiz about gestures around the world. How’s that for avant-garde podcasting?

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