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Season 2 Episodes

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Lost Decade and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1972 by Penguin Books.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Lost Decade and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1972 by Penguin Books.

For the 47th Second Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by journalist (among other things) Oscar Rickett. After a rocky start, they talk about a particular kind of American comic writing, a melancholy penguin and Fitzgerald's elegant command of emotion.

The Lost Decade And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald is also discussed in Page One 173.

You can listen to Fairewell's music here.

This episode has been edited to remove music that is no longer covered by licence for this podcast.

Episode released: 28th January, 2014.

Book listing:

What I'd Say To The Martians And Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handy

Death And The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (trans. George Bird)

The Lost Decade And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Links:

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Fairewell on Soundcloud

Oscar Rickett on Twitter

Charles Adrian