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Next, the issue sails off to TREASURE ISLAND by the towering master of the nineteenth-century page-turner, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. This somewhat boyish yet universally cherished tale gives rise to curious news from the parrot world, a conversation with a singalong genius, and in-depth reportage examining the worldwide electoral surge of pirate political parties."},"textReviewsCount":9,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/52227128-the-happy-reader---issue-9"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1511236752i/35285090._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"35285090","workId":"56647241","bookUrl":"/book/show/35285090-the-happy-reader-issue-10","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader – Issue 10","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader – Issue 10","numPages":64,"avgRating":3.92,"ratingsCount":63,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"Former Pulp frontman JARVIS COCKER is a voracious …","html":"Former Pulp frontman JARVIS COCKER is a voracious bookworm and an ideal addition to the Happy Reader pantheon. In this winter issue he discusses his reading habits and literary foibles with the great poet SIMON ARMITAGE. Accompanied by glorious photographs by ALASDAIR McLELLAN, the chat covers everything from the stories of Carson McCullers to the dreams of Carl Jung.

In part two, a pretend-perfect society is ruthlessly satirised in YEVGENY ZAMYATIN’s early sci-fi novel WE. The book inspires an interview with MARIA ALYOKHINA from dissident punk band PUSSY RIOT plus writings on state-controlled love lives, patriotic poetry, weather manipulation and cosmic links between Russia and California, with contributors including WILL SELF, NICHOLAS LEZARD, RICHARD GODWIN and HARRIET ALIDA LYE."},"textReviewsCount":8,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/56647241-the-happy-reader-issue-10"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1529346661i/40571187._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"40571187","workId":"62998566","bookUrl":"/book/show/40571187-the-happy-reader-issue-11","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader – Issue 11","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader – Issue 11","numPages":64,"avgRating":4.04,"ratingsCount":57,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"This bookish magazine for summer 2018 presents a l…","html":"This bookish magazine for summer 2018 presents a landmark interview with OLLY ALEXANDER and a free-roving parade through the novel THE BLACK TULIP.

OLLY ALEXANDER, lead vocalist with British pop group YEARS & YEARS opens up about being young, gay and famous, explains a key literary reference in a new song, and namechecks, among others, James Baldwin, Andrew Holleran and Flannery O’Connor.

The articles that follow strive to unlock the meaning of THE BLACK TULIP, an unputdownable novel set in the Dutch Golden Age, with contributions from DEBORAH LEVY, RICHARD BENSON, CHARLIE CONNELLY and NEAL FOX."},"textReviewsCount":10,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/62998566-the-happy-reader-issue-11"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544546956i/43197483._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"43197483","workId":"67056615","bookUrl":"/book/show/43197483-the-happy-reader---issue-12","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 12","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 12","numPages":66,"avgRating":3.94,"ratingsCount":63,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"LAURIE ANDERSON became a household name in 1981, w…","html":"LAURIE ANDERSON became a household name in 1981, when her 8-minute avant-garde monologue ‘O Superman’ became the world’s strangest-ever hit single. Anderson, now 71, is an artist whose work encompasses whatever she needs it to, from performance to music, from CD-ROM to virtual reality. Interviewed in Denmark, she discusses the dizzying breadth of her reading habits, which underpin everything she does, her useful belief in multiple realities, and the old Kindle she carries from her late husband, LOU REED.

FRANKENSTEIN by MARY SHELLEY was published exactly two hundred years ago. Two archetypes — the manmade monster and the mad scientist who created him — have been loping around in the collective unconscious ever since. To honour this incredible act of literary invention, part two of this issue presents a sequence of monsters, as fed through various prisms of association, and emerging as everything from chatbots to man bags. Contributors include GEOFF DYER, JEFFREY LEWIS, JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN and JUSTIN E. H. SMITH."},"textReviewsCount":6,"publicationDate":"2018","toBePublished":false,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/67056615-the-happy-reader---issue-12"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1563539588l/49767255._SX120_SY180_.jpg","bookId":"49767255","workId":"72195728","bookUrl":"/book/show/49767255-the-happy-reader---issue-13","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 13","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 13","numPages":66,"avgRating":4.25,"ratingsCount":81,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"Owen Wilson, the movie star, loves to read. His mi…","html":"Owen Wilson, the movie star, loves to read. His mind is filled with quotes from favourite books, which he is able to recall at a moment’s notice. In this rare interview he invites The Happy Reader to get to know him while perusing the classic and not-so-classic titles stacked up around his home.

Our Book of the Season for summer is an eternal bestseller by the Stoic philosopher, imperial life coach and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. The book is his secret diary that everyone is reading, the Meditations. With contributions from writers including Geoff Dyer and Deborah Levy and the photographer Martin Parr, the second half of the magazine tells you all you may ever need to know about nature, exercise, philosophy and love."},"textReviewsCount":12,"publicationDate":"2019","toBePublished":false,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/72195728-the-happy-reader-13"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576560945i/49349760._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"49349760","workId":"74789605","bookUrl":"/book/show/49349760-the-happy-reader---issue-14","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 14","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 14","numPages":66,"avgRating":3.62,"ratingsCount":53,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"GRACE WALES BONNER is a 28 year old fashion design…","html":"GRACE WALES BONNER is a 28 year old fashion designer from south-east London. She has been feted by the worlds of both serious culture and high glamour, but here’s the unusual part: her clothes come with reading lists. Interviewed by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri for this Happy Reader cover story, Grace explains how she sees herself on some level as a researcher. She visits libraries, digests acres of complex ideas about politics and identity, and expresses them, among other things, via the realm of clothes.

The Book of the Season this winter is Joris-Karl Huysmans’ AGAINST NATURE (1884), perhaps the most decadent novel ever written. Its relentless inventory-keeping thrills and inspires some readers and baffles others, and is highly relevant to this season of non-stop accumulation. Contributors include Jarvis Cocker, Lydia Davis, Rob Doyle and Jeanette Winterson."},"textReviewsCount":7,"publicationDate":"2019","toBePublished":false,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/74789605-the-happy-reader"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1606386153i/53369408._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"53369408","workId":"82412711","bookUrl":"/book/show/53369408-the-happy-reader---issue-15","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 15","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 15","numPages":64,"avgRating":4.15,"ratingsCount":60,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s …","html":"Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s cover star SARAH JESSICA PARKER is photographed by Roe Etheridge in Amaganesett, Long Island

Our Book of the Season, JAPANESE GHOST STORIES, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn. Contributors include Lieko Shiga, John Self, Travis Elborough, Bess Lovejoy and Moeko Fujii."},"textReviewsCount":10,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"2 editions","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/82412711-the-happy-reader---issue-15"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1624047195i/56018861._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"56018861","workId":"87247960","bookUrl":"/book/show/56018861-the-happy-reader---issue-16","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 16","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 16","numPages":68,"avgRating":4.14,"ratingsCount":51,"author":{"id":5765969,"name":"Penguin Classics","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5765969.Penguin_Classics","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5765969.Penguin_Classics"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"On the cover this time, sonic trailblazer Moses Su…","html":"On the cover this time, sonic trailblazer Moses Sumney is photographed by Kennedi Carter in Asheville, North Carolina, where he lives.

Our Book of the Season is Sabahattin Ali’s breathtaking romance, MADONNA IN A FUR COAT. Published to indifference in the early ‘40s it’s become one of the biggest literary blockbusters in Turkey in recent years — and the question of how and why it went from underground legend to mass-market hit is intriguing, just like the layered narratives of the novel itself. Contributors include: Elif Shafak, Julie Verhoeven, Liz Johnson Artur, Rob Doyle, Richard Godwin, and Kaya Genç."},"textReviewsCount":7,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/87247960-the-happy-reader---issue-16"}},{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1643670348i/59381681._SX120_.jpg","bookId":"59381681","workId":"93551261","bookUrl":"/book/show/59381681-the-happy-reader---issue-17","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"The Happy Reader - Issue 17","bookTitleBare":"The Happy Reader - Issue 17","numPages":64,"avgRating":3.69,"ratingsCount":32,"author":{"id":5481957,"name":"Various","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5481957.Various","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5481957.Various"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"On the cover, legendary artist MARK LECKEY is phot…","html":"On the cover, legendary artist MARK LECKEY is photographed by Mark Peckmezian.

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The Book of the Season is THE ODYSSEY, a singable story of heroes and gods inhabiting the world’s first archipelago and the perfect read for slow summer journeys, outbound or inbound. Contributors include: Justin E. H. Smith, Rebecca May Johnson, Nicholas Jubber, Eliot Haworth, Jeremy Lewis, Sabine Mirlesse and Rob Doyle."},"textReviewsCount":5,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/97163404-the-happy-reader---issue-19"}}],"seriesHeaders":["Book 3","Book 4","Book 5","Book 6","Book 7","Book 8","Book 9","Book 10","Book 11","Book 12","Book 13","Book 14","Book 15","Book 16","Book 17","Book 18","Book 19"]}

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