Mara: This episode covers the reviews Jones has published of Martyn Bey’s debut novel Come In Pink, a book that critics have been reaching for some fairly extravagant vocabulary to describe. Let’s start with what the novel actually is and why the reviews keep circling the same tensions.
Pip: There’s a novel out there that apparently supplies lavender soap to Pontius Pilate, debates Marx in the same breath as “zipper sex,” and calls the whole thing a love letter to misfits. Martyn Jones has been reading it closely — very closely.
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