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Sunday 9 March 2003 8.00pm
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Desert Island Books

Howard Jacobson in conversation with Vanessa Feltz


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Bibliography and Resources

Bibliographies

Some of Howard Jacobson’s ‘Desert Island Books’ included:

  • Saul Bellow Herzog (Penguin 2003)
  • Leo Rosten The Education of Hyman Caplan (Prion Books 2000)
  • James Thurber ‘Nine Needles’ (Short story)

Howard Jacobson:

  • Who's Sorry Now (Cape 2002)
  • The Mighty Walzer (Cape 1999)
  • No More Mister Nice Guy (Cape 1998)
  • Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (Viking 1997)
  • Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews (Viking 1993)
  • The Very Model of a Man (Viking 1992)
  • In the Land of Oz (Hamish Hamilton 1987)
  • Redback (Bantam 1986)
  • Peeping Tom (Chatto & Windus 1984)
  • Coming From Behind (Chatto & Windus 1983)
  • Shakespeare's Magnanimity: Four Tragic Heroes, Their Friends and Families (Co-author with Wilbur Sanders) (Chatto & Windus 1978)

Vanessa Feltz:

  • What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples: I Need Them for the Fruit Salad! (Little, Brown 1994)
  • The Best of Vanessa Feltz: Cassettes (Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books 1994)

Resources

Howard Jacobson:

Profile of Howard Jacobson on the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/jacobson

In depth profile and details of his books on the British Arts Council website
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/

Index of Howard Jacobson’s columns for The Independent
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/

Interview of Howard Jacobson by John Walsh
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/literature/

Interview with Howard Jacobson on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/openbook/ (20/4/03)

Howard Jacobson’s Critique of Holocaust Memorial Day
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000000545C.htm (26/1/01)

Selection of articles by Howard Jacobson in The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2002/comment/ (3/10/02)
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/tennis/comment/ (29/6/01)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/ (19/11/00)

Review of Who’s Sorry Now in The Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/critics/reviews/ (20/4/02)

Vanessa Feltz

Website for Vanessa Feltz’s radio show on BBC London
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/radio/vanessa_feltz.shtml

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