No matter how many Christmas parties you may go to over the festive season, one thing is certain – you’ll never encounter anything quite as spectacular as Litopia After Dark’s annual bash. Featuring Donna Ballman, …
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18 Holes
The highly popular “Dr. Sue” (Dr. Susan O’Doherty, the writer’s therapist) is our special guest for the year’s penultimate LITOPIA AFTER DARK – next week’s show is our Xmas Party, so expect lots of fun, …
The Contextual Wrap
With panellists from Norway, England, Florida and India, tonight’s show is the most geographically-diverse we’ve ever had – and as we approach our one hundredth episode, we can modestly congratulate ourselves on being the world’s …
The 36-Hour Day
You’ll have to forgive Peter his little gaffes tonight: last night was the evening of the Golden Twits Awards in which Litopia triumphed… he’s been up a long time! Fortunately, tonight’s redoubtable and stout-hearted panel …
The Naked Name of Love
Jesuit-shaman sex on the eastern steppes of Mongolia. It may sound like an aberration from The Commissioning Meeting (see below) but no, it’s a real book, and a promising candidate for this year’s Bad Sex …
The Audacity of Narcissism
To promote her new book – for which she’s been reportedly paid anything up to $11m – the former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has taken to Twittering. But not in the way that lesser mortals …
The Joy Of Rejection
Imagine this. You have a letter of acceptance in your hand, and one of rejection… which one are you going to brood over? If you’re like most writers, you’ll take the rejection to heart, while …
Dead Authors Society
Things have come to a pretty pass when publishers prefer to issue the minor works of dead authors rather the current work of living writers. But that’s what’s happening in today’s muddled publishing scene: the …
Smells Like Books
The first live LITOPIA AFTER DARK of the season returns with the humongously diverse smorgasbord of ingredients that you’ve come to expect and (we hope) love! Our vintage panel comprises Donna Ballman, Eve Harvey, Dave …
Googazon
It’s another inimitable blend of the profound and the profoundly peculiar this evening: only on Litopia After Dark can we move transcendentally from the works of John Berger to the World Gravy-Wrestling Championships without missing …
The Multi-Branded Victorian Cliche Book Swap Shop
It’s author branding that gets the limelight tonight – one of the hottest topics in publishing at the moment, but what does it really mean? Can an author really be a brand – and how …
Dave Bartram – Books That Matter
We continue our occasional series entitled Books That Matter with a guest who will be more familiar to regular Litopia After Dark listeners – Dave Bartram. Dave has picked a book that is “possibly a …
Zom-pocalypse!
What movies do astronauts on the international space station watch? What do George W. Bush, Roy Orbison and Darth Vader all have in common? Why are cops in one North American city arresting zombies? And …
Mind Your Manners
Welcome, dear friends, to our weekly literary soirée! We’re worried about manners this evening – not the Emily Post variety, although heaven knows we need ‘em, but the trap that all creative souls can easily …
Kill That Adverb! Love That Trope!
It’s not surprising that writers often argue about words, but the sheer animosity that adverbs can sometimes provoke would shock even the most hardened WWF fan. Tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK we’re looking at adverbs …
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