Lionel Shriver- Esteemed Award-Winning Writer, Journalist and Essayist

<p>An American writer now resident in the UK long enough to nearly qualify as National Treasure, Lionel Shriver has published one story/novella collection and fourteen novels, including the bestsellers<em> The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,</em> <em>Big Brother, So Much for That </em>(a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), <em>The Post-Birthday</em> <em> World </em>(<em>Entertainment Weekly’s</em> 2007 Book of the Year), and the Orange-Prize winner <em>We Need to Talk About Kevin </em>(a 2011 feature film starring Tilda Swinton).  She won the 2014 BBC National Short Story Award. Her most recent novel is <em>Should We Stay or Should We Go </em>(2021). Her fiction has been translated into over 30 languages. Also a prolific journalist with a fortnightly column in <em>The Spectator</em>, Shriver has written widely for the <em>New York Times,</em> the <em>Guardian</em>, the London <em>Times</em>, <em>Prospect</em>, the <em>Financial Times</em>, <em>Harper’s</em>, and many other publications.  Her <em>Harper’s </em>piece “Semantic Drift” appears in <em>Best American Essays of 2020. </em>Her forthcoming collection of essays is scheduled for autumn of 2022.</p><p> </p> <br /><br />Get full access to Ashley Rindsberg at <a href="https://www.ashleyrindsberg.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.ashleyrindsberg.com/subscribe</a>