25: Lucasta Miller on Emma Smith's Portable Magic

📚From prison stints for defacing books, to the historical evolution of the “shelfie”, Emma Smith's Portable Magic is a riot of detail, scholarly insight, and fun. What gives a book its “bookhood“? What makes some volumes so collectable? Francesca Peacock is joined by the literary critic Lucasta Miller — author of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (2021) and The Brontë Myth (2001), amongst others — to discuss Smith's new work. 

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On The Critic Books podcast, Deputy Online Editor Francesca Peacock interviews authors about their recent publications, including novels, memoirs, poetry, and non fiction. -- Music: "Modern Jazz Samba" Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ See https://acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.