{"podcast":{"title":"London Review Bookshop Podcast","slug":"london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718","podcast_index_feed_id":169718,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LRB9506044622","website_url":"https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a0235112-4cf4-11f0-a58e-839ac5045320/image/56e731f5542e0a416d601baecaa8d802.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"London Review Bookshop","episode_count":711,"summary":"Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storebkshppod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T04:18:51.997866+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718"},"episode":{"title":"Camilla Grudova & Jennifer Hodgson: Ágota Kristóf’s ‘I Don’t Care’","slug":"camilla-grudova-jennifer-hodgson-gota-krist-f-s-i-don-t-care","published_at":"2026-04-04T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/camilla-grudova-jennifer-hodgson-gota-krist-f-s-i-don-t-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB7067840775.mp3?updated=1775135943","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB7067840775.mp3?updated=1775135943","summary":"Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in French. Most famous for her Notebook Trilogy – ‘A book through which I discovered what kind of person I really want to be’ (Slavoj Žižek) – her short stories, now available for the first time in English as the Penguin Classic volume I Don’t Care (tr. Chris Andrews), have been described by Max Porter as ‘pure genius’. In this episode, Canadian writer Camilla Grudova discusses Kristóf’s work and place in the late modernist literary firmament with Jennifer Hodgson. More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storebkshppod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3539,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/camilla-grudova-jennifer-hodgson-gota-krist-f-s-i-don-t-care/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/camilla-grudova-jennifer-hodgson-gota-krist-f-s-i-don-t-care.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}