Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...

I really enjoyed his memoir, Peeling the Onion

The BBC did a program yesterday discussing The Tin Drum. The panelists included German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence Norfolk, journalist Oliver Kamm, and the literary historians, Karen Leeder and Julian Preece.

It can be found for streaming here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05stw9v

The BBC World Service rebroadcast a World Book Club from 2009 featuring Gunter Grass. From the website:

On Monday, Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize-winner and author of The Tin Drum, died aged 87. Before his death he had been described as "the world’s most important living writer".

We look back to 2009 when Guenter invited World Book Club into his home in Germany to put listeners' questions to him about his internationally-celebrated novel The Tin Drum.

Bitter and impassioned, the book charts the rise and fall of Nazism through the mischievous eyes of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarf who decided to stop growing at the age of three. First published half a century ago, The Tin Drum was re-published in new translations all over the world to mark its 50th birthday in 2009.

It can be found for streaming here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p7lxz

From Deutsche-Welle: German literary great Günter Grass farewelled

http://www.dw.de/german-literary-grea...

Germany has bid farewell to literary great Günter Grass at a memorial service in his home town of Lübeck in northern Germany. The Nobel winner and national treasure died last month at the age of 87.