Podcast review: Book Off! Viv Groskop and John Niven
Having recently been part of the audience at a literary event she took part in, I knew when I saw Viv Groskop ’s name that this episode was going to be hilarious. Needless to say that I was right! Even if you couldn’t care less about books, you’d still enjoy this episode of Book Off! purely based on the entertainment value of the banter between the two writers. The bubbly writer and comedian spoke about her new book - The Anna Karenina Fix - that she describes as a combination of memoir, literary criticism and self-help manual. The other guest of this episode was John Niven , whose latest book is No Good Deed . After listening to the anecdote that was the origin of the idea behindthe book , I just had to pause the audio and go straight to Amazon to add it to my wish list. How school dynamics keep replaying themselves into adulthood is a topic I find super interesting. I haven’t been to a school reunion in at least 15 years and I don’t plan on making that mistake again. Living ab...