{"id":5819,"date":"2020-04-10T06:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2020-05-03T08:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:51:26","slug":"episode-382-ten-minutes-with-alex-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/04\/10\/episode-382-ten-minutes-with-alex-irvine\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 382: Ten Minutes with Alex Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ten minutes with&#8230;<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they&#8217;re reading right now and what&#8217;s getting them through this strange time.<\/p>\n<p>Today Jonathan spends ten minutes with <a href=\"https:\/\/alex-irvine.com\/\">Alex Irvine<\/a>, award-winning author of\u00c2\u00a0<em>A Scattering of Jades<\/em>, <em>One King, One Soldier<\/em>, <em>The Narrows,<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<em>Buyout<\/em> and they discuss the pleasure of re-reading the crime novels of Elmore Leonard and Tristram Shandy, a biography of Blake, Salman Rushdie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take on Quixote, and Alex&#8217;s new short novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250269263\">Anthropocene Rag.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Episode 382: Ten Minutes with Alex Irvine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/3vvv4-d878c8?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=107&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Books mentioned include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250269263\">Anthropocene Rag<\/a> by Alex Irvine<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/558507\/elmore-leonard-the-classic-crime-novels-by-elmore-leonard--gregg-sutter-editor\/\">The crime novels<\/a><\/em> of Elmore Leonard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman\"><em>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman<\/em><\/a> by Laurence Sterne<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/67720\"><em>Blake<\/em><\/a> by Peter Ackroyd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/612467\/quichotte-by-salman-rushdie\/\"><em>Quichotte<\/em><\/a> by Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/563403\/there-there-by-tommy-orange\/\"><em>There There<\/em><\/a> by Tommy Orange<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250269263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/343eun\/anthropence.jpg\" alt=\"anthropence.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/558507\/elmore-leonard-the-classic-crime-novels-by-elmore-leonard--gregg-sutter-editor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/zqb5aa\/getshorty.jpg\" alt=\"getshorty.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/563403\/there-there-by-tommy-orange\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/476iv3\/therethere.jpeg\" alt=\"therethere.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten minutes with&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they&#8217;re reading right now and what&#8217;s getting them through this strange time. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes with Alex Irvine, award-winning author of\u00c2\u00a0A Scattering of Jades, One King, One Soldier, The Narrows,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Buyout and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/04\/10\/episode-382-ten-minutes-with-alex-irvine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 382: Ten Minutes with Alex Irvine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-ten-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}