“Sheila Kohler’s sister died in devastating circumstances and it has haunted her work ever since. After all, she can keep her safe on the page”
Sheila Kohler
The Pool
“To the voiceless, the muffled, the frightened, the guilty, I attempt to give words”
The film trailer for Black Mass, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. Starring Johnny Depp as the notorious Whitey Bulger.
Mr Holmes film UK trailer
“The mix here is terrific. Long-form essays on The Deer Hunter, strange sight tests, exchanges between the Doctors themselves, and at the heart a love of the subject matter itself”
Simon Brew
Den of Geek
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode introduce The Movie Doctors
Ben Fountain reads from Billy Lynn’s Longtime Walk at the 2012 National Book Awards Finalists’ Reading. (It won the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.)
Karl Pilkington discusses the meaning of his moaning with Jonathan Wells
Jonathan Wells
The Telegraph
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“The men of Bravo are not cold. It’s a chilly and windwhipped Thanksgiving Day with sleet and freezing rain forecast for late afternoon, but Bravo is nicely blazed on Jack and Cokes thanks to the epic crawl of game-day traffic and the limo’s minibar…” Read an extract from Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
NPR
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
An exhilarating ride; funny, oddly touching, written with garish clarity … And in Billy we’ve found a hero for our times.
Mark Wilson
Independent
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his bestselling novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Open Book
BBC
Karl Pilkington on the afterlife
Karl Pilkington on baldness
“There really is no correct way to consume this book. Read it from front to back, from back to front, or simply pick letters at random; whichever one you land on will offer you a snapshot of history in a format that we cannot afford to let die”
Letters Live at Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden http://letterslive.com/
The trailer for the Ang Lee adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain