{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69380c0d4a9751f83d7c325d/69380faf697783f6777f79f4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Author Nicola Barker: \"we are all weirdos\"","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69380c0d4a9751f83d7c325d/1765281642450-3a449b48-4cf3-4cdc-9b24-62952a91c467.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The experimental novelist on finding God, being \"a misfit\" and her return to writing.</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>Nicola Barker is \"has broken the mould so many times it's almost beyond repair\".</p><p><br></p><p>She's a post-punk literary anarchist who writes from the peripheries of the UK.</p><p><br></p><p>Her experiments with narrative form have won her many plaudits, including the Goldsmith's Prize for literary fiction, which the New Statesman partners with.</p><p><br></p><p>Barker joins Tanjil Rashid on the New Statesman culture podcast to discuss her latest novel, Tony Interrupter: a comedy about art, virality, chaos, and the surprising impact of freak events in Kent.</p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}