UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Lionel Shriver: Insensitivity Reader - Live at the UnHerd Club

Mar 17, 2023

01:10:09

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The Diversity Emission Statement From Penguin Random House

02:33

How Have These Edicts Affect Your Writing?

02:35

Do You Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction?

03:07

Introduction

2min

Sensitivity Readers

5min

How Have These Edicts Affect Your Writing?

3min

Is That the Brisbane?

2min

I've Never Apologized in Public, but I'm Never Accepted

3min

Do You Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction?

3min

Women in Publishing - Diversity Trumps Excellence

2min

Trans Women and the Women's Prize - What Do You Think?

5min

The Problem Isn't Cynicism

4min

10.

The Diversity Emission Statement From Penguin Random House

3min

11.

I've Got Away With It, Lionel

2min

12.

How Do You Use the Culture Wars in Your Next Novel?

5min

13.

Is It Peak Work?

6min

14.

Is There a Rise in Self-Criticism?

5min

15.

How Do You Think Publishing Got Taken Over by Women?

5min

16.

The War on Language

6min

17.

I Hate the Mangling of Language. I Hate Stupid Use of Words

4min

18.

Is There a Way of Reaching a Lost Generation of People?

3min

19.

What Is Wrong With Young People?

3min

20.

I Don't Believe in Gratuitous Offense, but There's Nothing Wrong With That.

4min

If offence is against the rules, what hope is there for radical writing? Join world-famous author Lionel Shriver to discuss the decline of in-your-face fiction and the sinister rise of sensitivity readers.

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