Litopia After Dark is on its annual summer holiday – we’ll be back live on air on Friday 13th August (superstitious? nous?) but until then, please enjoy this special show that Peter, Eve and Dave …

It’s our last Litopia After Dark before our summer break – we’ll be back live and kicking on Friday 13th of August, do join us in the chatroom to celebrate – and we’re certainly going …

“Fiction is dead”, proclaims Lee Siegel in the New York Observer.  Fiction is now a profession – not a vocation – and that simple fact means that fiction is now culturally irrelevant.  In what Siegel …

Writers are inherently sensitive people: part of a continuum that at its furthermost extremity finds not just intense creativity but also florid psychosis.  So is writing a disorder, then – a maladaptation to the “real” …

How green is your e-book?  How much do you care about the environmental impact of the words you read… or about the sweatshop workers who assembled your shiny new iPad?  Tonight’s special guest is Raz …

Is the internet a concrete realization of Jung’s collective unconscious?  Dave Bartram believes it is, and tonight advances the argument that viral advertising on the net is effective precisely because of this deep psychic connection …

Some new faces on tonight’s show – and a surprisingly good turnout in the chatroom (maybe seeking solace from England’s dire performance at the World Cup, taking place at the same time as our broadcast).  …

The nature of reading is changing, and there is much uncertainty about the implications for writers and the publishing industry.  Book sales are in general long-term decline, yet some areas (young adult fiction, for example) …

Publishing is bifurcating.  Until recently, an author only had one option – the traditional and often prolonged publishing route, which involved getting an agent, and then doing a deal with a publisher.  But now, an …

Here’s a rather striking paradox to kick off your 3-day weekend.  Given how readily people will stigmatize others – even members of their own family – for perceived deviance from a given societal norm, why …

The British government has a creative solution to the growing unemployment problem: their  Job Centers are offering unemployed women jobs on X-rated websites.  Female applicants are told they can earn up to £700 ($1000) a …

Litopia After Dark is officially an election-free zone… not! What – you didn’t think we’d pass up such a golden opportunity to deflate our leaders and betters, did you?  Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem, we’ll …