In this  episode John Holten is joined by Tom McCarthy. Tom McCarthy’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theater, and radio. His novel, C, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the European Literature Prize; his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also the author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on September 5, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

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Many thanks to Tom for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ

In this episode John talks with Calla Henkel. She was born in 1988 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. A writer, playwright, director and artist, she currently lives and works in Berlin. She has staged plays at Volksbühne Berlin, The Whitney Museum of Art, as well as at New Theater, the experimental theatre space she founded and programmed in Berlin from 2013-2015. Her art writing has been published in periodicals such as Texte zur Kunst, Spike, Mousse, and others. Her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently operates a bar, performance space and film studio called TV in Berlin. Other People’s Clothes is her debut novel. 

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 28, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

Related Links
Publisher's Page

Guardian Review of Other People's Clothes

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Many thanks to Calla for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ

John talks with Miriam Stoney

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 22, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

Related Links
https://www.miriamstoney.com/
https://www.kevinspace.org/exhibitions/miriam-stoney

https://nileshaw.org/

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Many thanks to Miriam for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ

John talks with May-Lan Tan. We talk writing, details, sex writing, screenplay readings…May Lan is the author of the short story collection Things to Make and Break, published in the UK by Sceptre and in the US by Coffee House Press/Emily Books. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Atlas Review, the Reader, and Areté. She studied art in London and now lives in Berlin. She works as a ghostwriter.

Related Links

Things to Make and Break - CHECK IT OUT!

May-Lan Tan’s homepage

The Reader Berlin’s interview with May-Lan Tan

A Screenplay To Read

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 18, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

John talks with Kristian Vistrup Madsen. We have a fascinating conversation about Kristian’s correspondence with a prisoner in the USA, what it means to tell people’s stories and how writing can lead to a better understanding of ourselves and the world at large. Kristian is a writer based in Berlin. He is a contributor to magazines such as Artforum, Frieze, Texte Zur Kunst and Kunstkritikk, and the recipient of the 2020 Broken Dimanche Press Writing Prize. DOING TIME, a collection of essays about prison correspondence, appropriation, and the boundaries of fiction, was published by Floating Opera Press in Summer 2021.

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on August 1, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

Related Links

DOING TIME

Hopeless Romantics at FUTURA, Prague

Kristian’s Artforum Profile

Kristian’s Homepage

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Many thanks to Kristian for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ

John talks with writer Rebecca Rukeyser about teaching creative writing, and writing workshops, the art of writing and editing, the revisionist western as a genre, her fantastic novel The Sea Plane on Final Approach and we carry out a daredevil reenactment from the book live.  

We also play IN FULL the terrific track by Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, enjoy!

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 11, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support. Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

Related Links

Rebecca at The Reader
Rebecca’s forthcoming novel

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Many thanks to Rebecca for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ

John talks with writer Habib William Kherbek. This was a great chat about lots of things - London, being in a band, William’s new novel ‘Best Practices’, fundraising and development aid, pub quizzes and much more. William has a lot of books about to be published so I was lucky to catch up with him.

The pub quiz is serious - the first three answers will get a prize, so send in your answers pronto.

Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 3, 2021

Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak and Torben Wessel for production and editing support.Theresa Patzschke for voiceline contribution. 
Title music: Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, 2011

Related Links
Twenty Terrifying Tales from Our Technofeudal Tomorrow (Arcadia Missa)

William’s book Best Practices

William’s poetry at Left Gallery

Ultralife - a novel

Entropia: The Childhood of a Critic

The Tiktok I mention at the end: https://www.tiktok.com/@tropez_tropez

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Many thanks to William for joining me in conversation and the entire team at Tropez. XJ