{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/68b08911122e9581fc1b4b80?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Author Nicola Barker: \"we are all weirdos\" | Culture with Tanjil Rashid","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1756400045039-a6131159-a4dc-4913-adfd-4545ac36a70e.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"}