Rebecca Carter is an editor of fiction and non-fiction at the Random House imprint Harvill Secker, a list that aims to continue the tradition, once announced in an advertisement for Secker, of publishing “international quality literature with a wayward streak”. She has a particular love of unusual narrative history, and novels that explore hidden corners […]
Books of the Decade - Rebecca Carter
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: literature
Le Monde diplomatique podcast - “civilizations from different galaxies”
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
“After Iraq the ideas of the Bush administration - for example, the idea that you can remake the world in America’s image, that we can alter the condition of the whole Islamic world in order to protect ourselves - had become deeply unfashionable.
“But I think there is a danger of embracing the opposite idea - […]
Tags: history and politics · podcasts · religion and belief
Auster and Aslam
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The latest podcast I’ve produced for Faber has just gone up on their site. In it I talk to novelists Paul Auster and Nadeem Aslam about the books they published this autumn. You can find the podcast here.
In Auster’s book, Man in the Dark, an ageing literary critic, August Brill, spends a night imagining a […]
Tags: literature · podcasts
