Eric Schlosser is an award-winning journalist, and a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker, among others. Eric Schlosser is the author of three previous best-selling books, Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew on This, and his latest is Command and Control. Also this week, Naomi Alderman tells us […]
November 23, 2013
Alex Cox is a film director, screenwriter, actor, and author. Among his features are Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker, and Revengers Tragedy. Between 1998 and 1994 he hosted the BBC2 cult film series Moviedrome. He currently teaches film production and screenwriting at the University of Colorado. He is also the author of 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the […]
November 16, 2013
Rosa Rankin-Gee grew up in Kensal Rise, London, but now lives by the Parc de Belleville in Paris. In 2010, she was one of Esquire magazine’s ’75 Brilliant Young Brits’. In 2011, she won Shakespeare & Company’s international Paris Literary Prize. Rosa Rankin-Gee runs a night-bird version of a Book Club, where up to 300 people […]
November 9, 2013
John Lloyd has had one of those careers that’s difficult to summarize. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz, Quote… Unquote and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. He was the original choice to host Have I got News For You. […]
November 2, 2013
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (longlisted for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) andThe Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize and an Economist Top Ten Book of the Year). She has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, London Review […]
November 30, 2013
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