Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross
Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books with writers Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross, featuring Amateur by Thomas Page McBee, Cane by Jean Toomer and The God of Small Things.
Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books with the writers Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross. Nikesh's choice is Amateur; a real-life account of testing one’s masculinity in the boxing ring by Thomas Page McBee. Leone's is Cane, the largely forgotten African-American classic by Jean Toomer and Harriett's is a divisive modern classic, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
Producer: Eliza Lomas
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