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From BBC Radio 4:

Open Book: Reader's Guide to Milan Kundera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0607247

Mariella Frostrup is joined by Benjamin Markovits to talk about his new novel You Don't Have to Live Like This: A Novel. It's an ambitious story of a group of old college friends who attempt to find a new direction by living in a regeneration project in Detroit.

We discuss Milan Kundera's new novel The Festival of Insignificance. Publisher Elena Lappin and Benjamin Markovits share their view on this and recommend their favourite from his earlier work.

Alan Samson, non-fiction publisher at Weidenfeld and Nicholson, recommends a collection of cultural essays from South American literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa in our Editor's Tip for July.

And finally with the eagerly anticipated publication of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, over fifty years since To Kill a Mockingbird first came out, Professor Diane Roberts looks at Lee's place in the literary traditions of the south.