A Seat At The Table with Jyoti Patel

Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Jyoti Patel. Jyoti is an author and winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. An extract of her debut novel, "The Things That We Lost", was chosen as the winning submission from over 2,000 entries, a competition that aims to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Jyoti is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA and was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists for 2023. Her writing has previously been published as part of We Present’s ‘Literally’ series and in the anthology for the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize, for which she was shortlisted.

We discuss Jyoti's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a great guest list; British journalist and author Reni Eddo-Lodge, leader of the strikers in the 1976 Grunwick dispute Jayaben Desai, and the character Agnes from Hamnet. Set in Brasserie Bellenger in Paris, against a soundtrack of Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Beyonce, they start with idli and dosa with coconut chutney and sambal, followed by chilli paneer, dal makhani, garlic butter naan, and pilau rice, finishing with rasmalai and chai. We discuss Jyoti's writing, how it intersects with her personal feminism, and her debut novel.

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